num_pages: 304
description: For nearly two decades Orbital Mechanics by John E. Prussing and Bruce A. Conway has been the most authoritative textbook on space trajectories and orbital transfers.Completely revised and updated this edition * Current data and statistics along with coverage of new research and the most recent developments in the field* Three new The Three-Body Problem (Ch. 4) Continuous-Thrust Transfer (Ch. 8) and Canonical Systems and the Lagrange Equations (Ch. 12)* New material on multiple-revolution Lambert solutions gravity-assist applications and the state transition matrix for a general conic orbit* New examples and problems throughout* A new Companion Website with PowerPoint slides (www.oup.com/us/prussing)
language: English
title: Orbital Mechanics
publisher: Oxford University Press