Title: AA 4362 Astrodynamics
1AA 4362Astrodynamics
Week7
Vallado Section 2.4 Chapter 3, Sections 3.1-3.4
2Orbital Elements
3Perifocal Coordinate System
4Perifocal Coordinate System(contd)
Position vector
5Perifocal Coordinate System(contd)
Velocity vector
Extension to allow for third dimension
6Orbital Elements (contd)
7 Orbital Elements (contd)
8 Orbital Elements (contd)
9 Orbital Elements (contd)
10 Orbital Elements collected
11 View From Orbital Plane
12 Inertial Reference Axis
13 Line of Equinoxes
during orbital perturbations section)
14Line of Equinoxes (contd)
15 OK how do we get from the local coordinates to
the Orbital Plane
16 Rotation 1
3-Rotation
17 Rotation 2
1-Rotation
18 Rotation 3
3-Rotation
19 Generalized Orbit in Space
20Why no 2 (y-axis)-Rotation?
Believe it or not Newton Didnt know how to do
This transformation
Axis you rotate From goes first .
2-rotation looks backward
21Why no 2 (y-axis)-Rotation?
Believe it or not Newton Didnt know how to do
This transformation
So He carefully devised His orbital Coordinate
System To avoid this problem .
22 Generalized Transformation
23Inertial Velocity Vector
24Inertial Velocity Vector (contd)
25Inertial Velocity Vector (contd)
26Inertial Velocity Vector (contd)
27Inertial Velocity Vector (contd)
28Inertial Velocity Vector (contd)
29Is there an easier Way?
Orbital plane, Polar velocity components
30Easier way?
31Easier way?
32Inertial Velocity Vector (concluded)
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