Download - Applied Technology Institute

Orbital & Launch Mechanics-FundamentalsIdeas and InsightsCourse # P180November 17-20, 2014Scottsdale, ArizonaDecember 8-11, 2014Columbia, Maryland$1990 (8:30am - 4:00pm)SummaryAward-winning rocket scientist, Thomas S. Logsdonreally enjoys teaching this short course becauseeverything about orbital mechanics is counterintuitive.Fly your spacecraft into a 100-mile circular orbit. Put onthe brakes and your spacecraft speeds up! Mash downthe accelerator and it slows down! Throw a bananapeel out the window and 45 minutes later it will comeback and slap you in the face!In this comprehensive 4-day short course, Mr.Logsdon uses 400 clever color graphics to clarify theseand a dozen other puzzling mysteries associated withorbital mechanics. He also provides you with a fewsimple one-page derivations using real-world inputs toillustrate all the key concepts being exploredInstructorFor more than 30 years, Thomas S. Logsdon, hasconducted broadranging studies onorbital mechanics at McDonnellDouglas, Boeing Aerospace, andRockwell International His key researchprojects have included Project Apollo,the Skylab capsule, the nuclear flightstage and the GPS radionavigationsystem.Mr. Logsdon has taught 300 short course andlectured in 31 different countries on six continents. Hehas written 40 technical papers and journal articles and29 technical books including Striking It Rich in Space,Orbital Mechanics: Theory and Applications,Understanding the Navstar, and MobileCommunication Satellites.What You Will Learn• How do we launch a satellite into orbit and maneuver it intoa new location?• How do today’s designers fashion performance-optimalconstellations of satellites swarming the sky?• How do planetary swingby maneuvers provide suchamazing gains in performance?• How can we design the best multi-stage rocket for aparticular mission?• What are libration point orbits? Were they really discoveredin 1772? How do we place satellites into halo orbits circlingaround these empty points in space?• What are JPL’s superhighways in space? How were theydiscovered? How are they revolutionizing the exploration ofspace?"Register 3 or More & Receive $100 00 eachOff The Course Tuition."Video!www.aticourses.com/fundamentals_orbital_launch_mechanics.htmCourse Outline1. The Essence of Astrodynamics. Kepler’samazing laws. Newton’s clever generalizations.Launch azimuths and ground-trace geometry. Orbitalperturbations.2. Satellite Orbits. Isaac Newton’s vis vivaequation. Orbital energy and angular momentum.Gravity wells. The six classical Keplerian orbitalelements.3. Rocket Propulsion Fundamentals. The rocketequation. Building efficient liquid and solid rockets.Performance calculations. Multi-stage rocket design.4. Modern Booster Rockets. Russian boosters onparade. The Soyuz rocket and its economies of scale.Russian and American design philosophies. America’spowerful new Falcon 9. Sleek rockets and highlyreliable cars.5. Powered Flight Maneuvers. The Hohmanntransfer maneuver. Multi-impulse and low-thrustmaneuvers. Plane-change maneuvers. The bi-elliptictransfer. Relative motion plots. Deorbiting spentstages. Planetary swingby maneuvers.6. Optimal Orbit Selection. Polar and sunsynchronous orbits. Geostationary satellites and theiron-orbit perturbations. ACE-orbit constellations.Libration point orbits. Halo orbits. Interplanetaryspacecraft trajectories. Mars-mission opportunities.Deep-space mission.7. Constellation Selection Trades. Civilian andmilitary constellations. John Walker’s rosetteconfigurations. John Draim’s constellations. Repeatingground-trace orbits. Earth coverage simulations.8. Cruising Along JPL’s Superhighways inSpace. Equipotential surfaces and 3-dimensionalmanifolds. Perfecting and executing the Genesismission. Capturing ancient stardust in space.Simulating thick bundles of chaotic trajectories.Driving along tomorrow’s unpaved freeways in the sky.Register online at www.ATIcourses.com or call ATI at 888.501.2100 or 410.956.8805 Vol. 109 – 51 Vol. 119 – 51