Kinetics: Studying Spacecraft Motion

University of Colorado Boulder
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As they tumble through space, objects like spacecraft move in dynamical ways. Understanding and predicting the equations that represent that motion is critical to the safety and efficacy of spacecraft mission development. Kinetics: Modeling the Motions of Spacecraft trains your skills in topics like rigid body angular momentum and kinetic energy expression shown in a coordinate frame agnostic manner, single and dual rigid body systems tumbling without the forces of external torque, how differential gravity across a rigid body is approximated to the first order to study disturbances in both the attitude and orbital motion, and how these systems change when general momentum exchange devices are introduced.

Please note: this is an advanced course, best suited for working engineers or students with college-level knowledge in mathematics and physics.

Instructor(s)

Hanspeter Schaub
University of Colorado Boulder
via Coursera
Free (audit)
English
Paid Certificate Available
Approx. 21 hours to complete
Self paced
Advanced Level
Subtitles: Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish