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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Space Flight: Application of Orbital Mechanics
AVA18245VNB1 - 1994

This video details planetary motion or orbital mechanics. It explains Kepler's and Newton's Laws plus terminology including perigee, apogee, eccentricity, orbital inclination, launch window, etc.

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  • Great video on space orbital mechanics!

  • Naval Space Command??

    WTF???

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  • @qed100 Superb book.

  • This video answers some basic questions I've had for a long time about orbital mechanics. I think I'll watch it several times.

    GREAT VIDEO!!

  • @jazzguitar2010 "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics", by Roger R Bate, Donald D Mueller, and Jerry E White.

  • What does Roller Skating and Orbital Mechanics have in common?

  • @trunkeight so they can use the marines in space lol

  • What is a good book that explains all this?

  • How long would an eccentric orbit that was 1000km above the earth at it's closest point, and 1000km beyond the moon at it's fartest point take per revolution? I'm guessing it's something less than the 28 days that the moon takes to complete an orbit. But how far past the moon would the orbit have to go before it became synchronous with the moon's orbit (passing it twice each cycle?)

  • Best orbital mechanics video ever

  • has it been covered up yet? i hope not. . .

  • Paganiproductions, there are very, very serious reasons USNSC and USAFSC not not reveal their space activities and means - I wan't talk about here. Nevertheless, I can give you a clue: Watch Stargate SG-1

    (by taking it with a grain of salt of course) and take a look who co-authored and sponsored this SF-show with about 185M of taxpayer's money:

    watch?v=PyBs_aGa7-0

    ;-))

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