MARK II GENERAL TWO-BODY PROGRAM,

Abstract

The Mark II General Two-Body Program was developed to compute accurately any type of two-body orbit encountered in space flight missions. It is applicable to problems in which the two-body approximation is adequate and as a basic subroutine in high precision trajectory computations which employ Encke's method or special forms of the variation of parameters method. Specially-tailored analytical solutions, developed by Convair-Astronautics, to the two-body equations of motion are given and the computational procedures are outlined. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 16, 1960
Accession Number
AD0682130

Entities

People

  • C. E. Herrick
  • D. A. Plutchak

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Astronautics
  • Computations
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight
  • Mathematics
  • Precision
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Space Flight
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris