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Home Courses Flight & Orbital Mechanics Course materials Lectures 10. Eclipse and Maneuvers

10. Eclipse and Maneuvers

Course subject(s) 2. Orbital Mechanics

In this lecture Ir. R. Noomen talks about eclipses and maneuvers.  Eclipses, being the time a satellite spends in the shadow of earth, have different effects on a satellite, such as on its power, thermal control and attitude control. The second part covers maneuvers, a change in velocity in order to obtain a change in orbit. The different applications to this are orbit transfers, orbit maintenance, rendezvous and docking, and end of life disposal.

Eclipse and Maneuvers

Slides: Orbital mechanics 10
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