Analytical Solutions for Extremal Space Trajectories presents an overall treatment of the general optimal control proble
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Table of contents :
Introduction --
Optimal and exremal trajectories --
Motion with constant power and variable specific impulse --
Motion with variable power and constant specific impulse --
Motion with constant power and constant specific impulse --
Extremal trajectories in a linear central field --
Extremal trajectories in a uniform gravity field --
Number of thrusts arcs for extremal orbital transfers --
Some problems of trajectory synthesis in the Newtonial field --
Conclusions --
Appendix --
Nomenclature --
References --
Index.