Category:Astrodynamics

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Astrodynamics is the term used to describe the application of Newtonian mechanics to human-made objects in space, such as rockets and spacecraft. It is a subfield of celestial mechanics and ballistics.

• Spacecraft attitude control‎ (22 P)
• Spacecraft propulsion‎ (8 C, 114 P)

The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

• Apparent retrograde motion
• Areostationary orbit

• Ballistic capture
• Beta angle
• Bi-elliptic transfer

• Canonical units
• Characteristic energy
• Clohessy–Wiltshire equations

• Delta-v
• Delta-v budget
• Distant retrograde orbit

• Escape velocity

• Spacecraft flight dynamics
• Frozen orbit

• Gauss's method
• Geostationary orbit
• Geostationary ring
• Geostationary transfer orbit
• Graveyard orbit
• Gravity assist
• Gravity loss
• Ground track

• Heliocentric orbit
• Hohmann transfer orbit

• International Berthing and Docking Mechanism
• Interplanetary Transport Network

• Lambert's problem
• Low-energy transfer
• Low thrust relative orbital transfer

• Mass ratio
• Minimum orbit intersection distance

• Near-equatorial orbit
• Nodal precession

• Oberth effect
• Orbit
• Orbit determination
• Orbit phasing
• Orbit raising
• Orbital inclination change
• Orbital maneuver
• Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students
• Orbital pass
• Orbital station-keeping
• Orbiting body
• Osculating orbit

• Parking orbit
• Patched conic approximation
• Path-constrained rendezvous
• Payload fraction
• Perifocal coordinate system
• Pioneer anomaly
• Polar orbit
• Porkchop plot
• Propellant mass fraction

• Radial trajectory

• Space rendezvous
• Specific angular momentum
• Specific orbital energy
• Sphere of influence (astrodynamics)
• Star tracker
• Statite
• Sun sensor
• Supersynchronous orbit
• Synchronous orbit

• Trans-Earth injection
• Trans-lunar injection
• Transfer orbit
• Transposition, docking, and extraction
• Tsiolkovsky rocket equation

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