February 4 - Sir I Send

February 5 - Conic Sections

April 3 - Mean and Osculating Elements

January 14 - Pre-Lab 1

January 28 - Lab 1 Exercises

February 4 - Lab 2: Code up Lambert's Problem solver, including planetary ephemerides for Mars and Earth. Use your code to evaluate C3 at launch and Vinf at arrival for launch dates of Aug. 5, 2005 and Aug. 20, 2005 (pick a few arrival dates). You can use Rodney's Lambert Solver to check your answers. You will then use your solutions in order to plan an Earth-Mars trajectory using STK during the next lab.

February 11 - Generate a porkchop plot for the 2005 Earth to Mars opportunity. Use Earth departure dates from JD = 2453550.0 to 2453649.0 and Mars arrival dates from JD = 2453736.0 to 2454035.0. Plot C3L (km²/s²) at Earth and V_inf (km/s) at Mars. (Contour plotting files for Matlab: plotcon.m, porkchop.m)

February 11 - Lab 3 STK Excercises

February 25 - Lab 5 STK Excercises - Due Monday, March 4

February 25 - Lab 6 Pre-lab - Due Monday, March 4

March 4 - Lab 6

March 4 - Lab 6 Answer Sheet - Due Monday, March 11

March 11 - Lab 7 Assignment - Due Monday, March 18

March 18 - Lab 8 Assignment - Due Monday, April 15

April 1 - Lab 9 Assignment - Due Monday, April 15

April 1 - Lab 9 Answer Sheet - Due Monday, April 15

Kepler's Equation (Danby, section 6.6)
Lambert's Theorem (Danby, section 6.11-6.13)