Paper extends previous analysis (see Engineering Index 1963 p 2027), of two-dimensional (or coplanar) orbital transfer to three-dimensional space, by use of orbital hodograph; basic equations for three-dimensional transfer are formulated in terms of three hodograph parameters and angles of intersection between transfer orbit plane and initial and final orbit planes; transfer orbit solution requiring minimum total velocity increment is shown to be real root of eighth-order polynomial equation with constant coefficients.


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    Title :

    Analysis of orbital transfer problem in three-dimensional space


    Additional title:

    Progress Astronautics Aeronautics -- Celestial Mechanics Astrodynamics


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    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    28 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :