# MIT 16.346 Astrodynamics, Fall 2008

This course covers the fundamentals of astrodynamics, focusing on the two-body orbital initial-value and boundary-value problems with applications to space vehicle navigation and guidance for lunar and planetary missions, including both powered flight and midcourse maneuvers. Other topics include celestial mechanics, Kepler's problem, Lambert's problem, orbit determination, multi-body methods, mission planning, and recursive algorithms for space navigation. Selected applications from the Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Mars exploration programs are also discussed. Instructor: Prof. Richard Battin View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/16-346F08 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 1 h 19 min
- By: MIT OpenCourseWare
- Genres: Education, Science, Space
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MIT16-346F08)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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