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Week - 1 |
Introduction to spaceflight, types of orbits, basic concepts of orbital mechanics |
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Week - 2 |
Newton’s laws of motion, gravitational force, orbit equations |
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Week - 3 |
Kepler’s laws, conic sections, classical orbital elements (COEs) |
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Week - 4 |
True, mean, and eccentric anomalies; Kepler’s equation |
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Week - 5 |
Orientation in space, transformation matrices, perifocal coordinates |
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Week - 6 |
LEO, MEO, GEO, HEO, GTO, Sun-synchronous orbits |
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Week - 7 |
Midterm exam |
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Week - 8 |
Bi-elliptic transfer, plane change maneuvers |
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Week - 9 |
J2 effect, atmospheric drag, third-body perturbations |
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Week - 10 |
Orbit determination from measurements, Gauss and Lambert methods |
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Week - 11 |
Runge-Kutta integration, orbit plotting in MATLAB/Python |
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Week - 12 |
Mission requirements, coverage and revisit time, constellation architecture |
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Week - 13 |
Attitude Determination and Control Systems (ADCS), propulsion, orientation control |
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Week - 14 |
Final Exam |
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