9. Satellite Orbits III
Course subject(s)
Space Lectures
In last lecture about orbits Prof. Ir. B. Ambrosius continues to talks about orbit transfers, and a specific one: the Hohmann transfer. In the second half of the lecture he starts talking about launchers, first giving a general introduction using historical examples. He concludes the lecture by deriving Tsoilkovsky’s equation for rocket motion.
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