Lectures related to Galaxy Disk Models: Orbits and Potentials

Crew-7 Return and Space Mission Design Overview

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

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.

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.

Orbital Motion: Circular and Elliptical

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

Space Cooperation with Russia: Exomars and Soyuz

Explores the impact of war on space cooperation with Russia, focusing on Exomars and Soyuz launches.

Space Mission Design and Operations

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

Stellar Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials

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

Spherical Systems: Models and Potentials

Explores spherical systems, models, and potentials, including circular speed and escape speed.

Catch up rate between orbits

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

Orbital Parameters and Calendars

Explains classical orbital parameters, spacecraft's state vector, and Gregorian vs. Julian days.

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Orbital Plane Change

Explains changing the orbital plane using delta V vectorial and the efficiency of performing changes at the equator.

Interplanetary Trajectories: Concepts and Strategies

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

Stellar Orbits in Spherical Potentials

Explores stellar orbits in spherical potentials, including Keplerian orbits, nearly circular orbits, and the Miyamoto-Nagai potential.

Hohmann Transfer: Circular Orbits

Covers the Hohmann transfer technique between circular orbits and the necessary velocity changes.

Potential Theory: Axisymmetric Models for Disk Galaxies

Discusses potential theory and axisymmetric models for disk galaxies, focusing on mathematical tools and applications in astrophysics.

Interplanetary Trajectories: Orbital Characteristics

Covers interplanetary trajectories, sphere of influence, and orbital characteristics of planets.

Circular Motion: Forces and Orbits

Covers the analysis of circular motion and orbits, focusing on forces and characteristics.

Gravitational Forces: Orbits and Space Debris

Explores gravitational forces, satellite orbits, space debris, escape velocity, black holes, galaxy rotation, planet properties, and angular momentum.