Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization

by Bruce Conway

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107653827
• ISBN13: 9781107653825
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"