Spacecraft trajectory optimization This is a long overdue volume dedicated to space trajectory optimization. Interest in the subject has grown as space missions of increasing levels of sophistication complexity and scientific return hardly imaginable in the 1960s have been designed and flown. Although the basic tools of optimization theory remain an accepted canon there has been a revolution in the manner in which they are applied and in the development of numerical optimization. This volume purposely includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The choice of authors has been guided by the editors intention to assemble the most expert and active researchers in the various specialties presented Provided by publisher Machine generated contents note: 1. The problem of spacecraft trajectory optimization Bruce A. Conway; 2. Primer vector theory and application John E. Prussing; 3. Spacecraft trajectory optimization using direct transcription and nonlinear programming Stephen W. Paris and Bruce A. Conway; 4. Elements of a software system for spacecraft trajectory optimization Cesar Ocampo; 5. Low thrust trajectory optimization using orbital averaging and control parameterization Craig A. Kluever; 6. Analytic representation of optimal low thrust transfer in circular orbit Jean A. Kechichian; 7. Global optimisation and space pruning for spacecraft trajectory design Dario Izzo; 8. Incremental techniques for global space trajectory design Massimiliano Vasile and Matteo Ceriotti; 9. Optimal low thrust trajectories using stable manifolds Christopher Martin and Bruce A. Conway