Space Mission Design: Interplanetary Trajectories and Operations

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Outlines the key space exploration missions and developments planned for 2024, including NASA's Artemis 2 and SpaceX's Crew 8 missions.

Covers Earth's orbit, interplanetary trajectories, propulsion systems, and future space projects.

Covers the Hohmann transfer technique between circular orbits and the necessary velocity changes.

Explores gravitational forces, orbital mechanics, energy aspects, and satellite orbits.

Explores angular momentum, torque, conservation of momentum, and planetary motion based on Newton's laws and Kepler's laws.

Explores the impact of war on space cooperation with Russia, focusing on Exomars and Soyuz launches.

Covers the design and operation of thruster-based attitude control systems for spacecraft.

Explains interplanetary trajectory to Mars and discusses transfer orbits to Venus and Mars.

Covers examples and formulas related to elliptical orbits and how to determine parameters of an elliptical orbit using known points.

Introduces space propulsion systems, their design principles, and the importance of project management in aerospace engineering.