Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization [Paperback]

This volume on space trajectory optimization includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization.This volume is dedicated to space trajectory optimization. It purposely includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The authors are experts and active researchers in the specialties presented. They were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, yielding chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevance to contemporary problems.This volume is dedicated to space trajectory optimization. It purposely includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The authors are experts and active researchers in the specialties presented. They were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, yielding chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevance to contemporary problems.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. The authors were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, and although this may yield a somewhat eclectic volume, it also yields chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevant to contemporary problems.1. The problem of spacecraft trajectory optimization Bruce A. Conway; 2. Primer vector theory and application John E. Prussing; 3.l³«