ON THE POWERED FLIGHT TRAJECTORY OF AN EARTH SATELLITE

Abstract

The actual choice of a powered flight trajectory depends upon details of booster design and upon the particular orbit selected, the latter being determined by instrumentation and data requirements. Independent of these considerations, however, it is of interest to ask what type of trajectory will be optimal from the standpoint of missile efficiency. The approach used assumes that the characteristics of the booster, i.e., its thrust and mass as functions of time, are specified. The problem is then to determine what powered flight trajectory will put the satellite into an orbit of maximum altitude.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 13, 1956
Accession Number
AD0605575

Entities

People

  • Burton D. Fried

Organizations

  • TRW Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Forces
  • Altitude
  • Apogees
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Circular Orbits
  • Elliptical Orbits
  • Flow Rate
  • Hard Copy
  • High Altitude
  • Instrumentation
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Launch Vehicles
  • Mass
  • Mass Flow
  • Orbits
  • Satellite Orbits
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers