An Introduction to Mission Design for Geostationary Satellites [Hardcover]

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Launch. 3. Transfer Orbit. 4. The Apogee Manoeuvre. 5. Drift Orbit. 6. Station-Keeping. 7. Spacecraft Operations. 8. Orbit Propagation. 9. Tracking and Orbit Determination. 10. Spacecraft Stability. Appendix.` The book is a well written and is suitable for a broad range of readers from students to managers interested in learning about the mission design problem and analysis techniques for the geo-synchronous orbit. '
Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, March 1988