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The main goal of this course is to describe the kinematics of aerospace vehicles, deriving equations of motion for elementary flight and mission phases.

The following topics are covered:1. Turning performance (three dimensional equations of motion, coordinate systems, Euler angles, transformation matrices)2. Airfield performance (take-off and landing)3. Unsteady climb and descent (including minimum time to climb problem)4. Cruise flight and transport performance5. Equations of motion with a wind gradient present6. Equations of motion applied to various phases of space flight7. Launch, Vertical flight, delta-V budget, burn out height, staging8. Gravity perturbations to satellite orbits, J2 effect for low earth orbit satellites, J2,2 effect for Geostationary Earth Orbit sattelites leading to contribution in V budget9. Patched conics approach for interplanetary flight, gravity assist effect / options for change of excess velocity (2d, 3d), Launch, in orbit insertion.

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