Lectures related to Orbital mechanics

Crew-7 Return and Space Mission Design Overview

Discusses Crew-7's return from the ISS and key principles of space mission design.

Covers space mission design, spacecraft energy, orbits, and maneuvers, including gravity effects, tethers, and interplanetary trajectories.

Interplanetary Trajectories: Concepts and Strategies

Explores interplanetary trajectories, including departure strategies, sphere of influence, and orbit insertion around the destination planet.

Kepler's Laws and Orbital Mechanics

Explores Kepler's laws, orbital mechanics, energy of motion, flight path angles, orbital maneuvers, Hohmann transfers, geostationary orbits, and Lagrange points.

Space Mission Design: Starship Test and Rendezvous Techniques

Discusses SpaceX's Starship test flight and the principles of rendezvous in space missions.

Mechanics: Introduction and Calculus

Introduces mechanics, differential and vector calculus, and historical perspectives from Aristotle to Newton.

Catch up rate between orbits

Explains catch up rates between circular and elliptical orbits, including key calculation differences.

Orbital Motion: Circular and Elliptical

Covers circular and elliptical orbits, orbital period, velocity, energy, and angular momentum.

Gravitational Forces: Orbital Mechanics

Explores gravitational forces, orbital mechanics, energy aspects, and satellite orbits.

Space Mission Design: Interplanetary Trajectories and Operations

Discusses space mission design, focusing on interplanetary trajectories, operations, and aerodynamic braking techniques.

Laws of Mechanics and Space Environment

Covers the laws of mechanics, space environment, and space debris observation.

Private Space Missions to ISS

Covers private space missions to the ISS, including future plans, nodal regression, Sun-synchronous orbits, and rendezvous strategies.

Elliptical Orbits: Examples and Formulas

Covers examples and formulas related to elliptical orbits and how to determine parameters of an elliptical orbit using known points.

Stellar Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials

Explores the dynamics of stellar orbits in axisymmetric potentials, focusing on nearly circular orbits and different types of motion.

Angular Momentum and Energy

Explores angular momentum and energy in central force systems, emphasizing conservation laws and orbital mechanics.

Hohmann Transfer: Small AV

Discusses the Hohmann transfer for small AV and orbital parameters at different altitudes.

Quantum Chemistry

Covers Quantum Chemistry topics like SP Hybridization and orbital conservation.

Eccentric Anomaly: Circular Non-Uniform

Explains the relationship between eccentric anomaly and mean anomaly in orbits.

Galaxy Disk Models: Orbits and Potentials

Explores galaxy disk models, orbits, potentials, and circular velocity in disk galaxies.

Space Mission Design and Operations

Explores the history and future of space exploration, covering major events in 2022-2023 and the design of missions beyond Earth's atmosphere.