Selected Theoretical Problems of Space Technology

Course guarantor:

Jan Hošek

Lecturer:

Jan Hošek, Jaroslav Kousal

Tutor:

Jan Hošek, Jaroslav Kousal

Supervisor:

Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Synopsis:

Two-body problem, restricted three-body problem, non-keplerian movement, stability of orbits

Tsiolkovsky equation, impulse and continuous maneuvers, Lambert problem, transfer orbits

Rendezvous maneuvers, flying in formation, dynamics of launch and re-entry of spacecrafts

Rotation of rigid body, disturbing torques, position and attitude determination

Active and passive attitude control, dynamics of control

Methods of solution in astrodynamics, analytical/numerical methods, accuracy of the methods

Principles of vacuum physics and technology, high vacuum, molecular flow, vacuum aerodynamics

Materials in high vacuum vapour pressure, friction, moving mechanisms in vacumm

Thermal conductivity in molecula flow, thermal radiation, thermal and radiative balance of spacecraft

Motion of charged particles, plasma parameters, low-temperature vs. high-temperature plasma

Charakteristic lengths and frequencies in plasma, Debye screeening length, non-stationary effects

Generation of plasma discharge, non-equilibrium plasma, interacction of plasma with surface

Ionosphere and magnetosphere of Earth, solar wind and interplanetary space

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Study materials:

H. D. Curtis: Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, 2005, Elsevier, ISBN 0-7506-6169-0

M. J. Sidi: Spacecraft dynamics and control: a practical engineering approach, Cambridge Uni. Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-55072-6

L. Pisacane: The Space Environment and Its Effects on Space Systems, 2nd ed., AIAA, 2016, ISBN 978-1-62410-353-7

O. Montenbruck, E. Gill; Satellite Orbits Models, Methods and Applications, 2005, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-63547-2

R. R. Bate, D. D. Mueller, J. E. White: Fundamentals of astrodynamics, 1971, Dover Publications, , ISBN 0-48660-061-0

V. A. Chobotov (ed.): Orbital mechanics, 3rd ed., AIAA, 2002, ISBN 1-56347-537-5

Viviani, G. Pezzella: Aerodynamic and Aerothermodynamic Analysis of Space Mission Vehicles, Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-13926-5

C. Tribble: The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN: 978-0691102993

R. Hippler, H. Kersten, M. Schmidt, K. H. Schoenbach (eds.): Low Temperature Plasmas: Fundamentals, Technologies and Techniques, 2nd ed., Wiley, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-527-40673-9

J. F. O'Hanlon: A User's Guide to Vacuum Technology, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 978-0-471-27052-2

Note:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: