Gessner, Nicolas
“Tous Sur Orbite!”
Éditions Montparnasse
1997 (2004)
Publisher’s Web Site
Univers-Site.com Review
Librarian’s Note: A Region 0 (all zones) DVD I picked up during my visit to the 14th ISU Symposium, this is an absolutely brilliant educational overview of the Earth’s place in space over the course of a year. Excellent computer graphics allow for an easier understanding of any number of astronomical concepts, from calendars to the Moon’s motion in the sky. There is an English soundtrack, so I highly, highly recommend this DVD for educators. Absolutely top notch!
Lundy, Donald C.
“Lunar Landing and Return: A Simplified Physics & Mathematics Investigation”
1stBooks Library
2002
ISBN: 0-759-61858-5
Coe, Liza, Linda Conrad et al (eds)
“NASA Quest Challenge: Charting a Course to the Moon”
Exploration through Navigation Challenge Educator’s Guide
NASA Ames
2009
Publisher’s Web Site
On-Line Text
Librarian’s Note: You know, I was just talking orbital mechanics at an NSS-NT outreach display at UTA with youngsters who were being encouraged by their parents to do well in math. One of the displays we have is a map of cislunar space, and I’ve created a tool to help illustrate the Lagrange points associated with the warps created by the interaction of the Earth and Moon’s gravity. This Educator Guide pointed to an absolutely brilliant video which illustrates the point quite well.
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NASA Orbital Debris Program Office
Orbital Debris Quarterly Newsletter
Vol. 12, #2
04/2008
Publisher’s Web Site
On-Line Text (pdf)
Space Lifestyle Magazine #3
New Forks LLC
Fall 2007
Publisher’s Web Site
On-Line Text
Free Subscription!
STK: Satellite Tool Kit
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI)
v 8.1.1
11/2007
Note: U.S. Government Export-Controlled Item. Registration Required
Publisher’s Web Site
Educators Site
Librarian’s Note: STK is pretty much the industry-standard software for satellite tracking. It’s come a long way since 2000 when we had a workshop on it during my Masters program at ISU. The basic package is great for an applied mathematics class at the advanced high school level, but probably best suited for introduction at the college level.
Special Alert!: AGI has teamed up with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to apply America’s high tech aerospace tracking systems to following Santa Claus on his global quest to deliver presents/rewards to all of the Good children of the Earth. A special Google YouTube channel has been reserved for the coverage. Details are here!
International Space University
Space Traffic Management
SSP Project Report
2007
On-Line Text
Irving, Bruce (a/k/a Flying Singer on Orbiter forums)
“Orbiter 2006 Collection CD for ISDC 2007″
Orbiter Website
Librarian’s Note: Mr. Irving was kind enough to present an overview of how to use the Orbiter software at the 2007 ISDC and handed out some complimentary CDs. Thank you, Flying Singer!
Belbruno, Ed
“Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider’s Guide to the New Science of Space Travel”
Princeton University Press
2007
ISBN: 0-691-12822-7
Publisher’s Web Site
Chapter 1
Librarian’s Note: I got to meet Ed at a New York Space Society shindig held at Mars 2112 back in 2000, and that’s where I first learned about this new way of looking at orbital mechanics.
Best of the Moon 2007 - High Frontier Navigation
Morrow, Cherilynn
“‘Standstill’ My Beating Heart: A Lunar Love Affair”
Space.com: SETI
03/08/2007
On-line Text
Librarian’s Note: This is a Lunar love story in 3 acts. The standstill season she’s talking about is part of the Saros cycle, where the Moon returns to the same spot in the sky every 18.6 years (which she doesn’t actually name in the article). This fact is what makes eclipses predictable. And while she notes that the nodes are precessing, the Moon’s position is further complicated by the fact that, IIRC, the line of apsides is also precessing, but in the opposite direction of the precession of the nodes. All told there are somewhere in excess of 150 discrete perturbations on the Moon’s position in its orbit. It’s talked about in one of the really old astronautics books over in the High Frontier: Navigation section, I think “the physical principles of Astronautics” by Berman.
Leiva, A.M. and C.B. Briozzo
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
“The Earth-Moon CR3BP: A full Atlas of low-energy fast periodic transfer orbits”
‘Accompanying article to a shortened version submitted to Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy in December 2006′
On-line Text
Librarian’s Note: CR3BP refers to the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem in celestial mechanics.
Various contributors
“Lots of talk lately concerning the moon”
Space.com Uplink
Mission & Launches thread
Started 07/24/2004
On-line Text
Lunar Librarian’s Contributions:
07/27/2004 post: Things to do on the Moon
07/29/2004 post: By way of EML-1
07/30/2004 post: Vacuum discipline
08/09/2004 post: Mars commerce?
08/10/2004 post: Timeline to spacefaring
08/11/2004 post: Myriad rebuttals
08/12/2004 post: Notes on Lunar mineralogy
08/13/2004 post: Harvesting resources
08/14/2004 post: SWIEs, KREEPs and commerce
08/14/2004 post: Delta-Vs
Sellers, Jerry J.
“Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics”
McGraw-Hill
1994 (2004)
ISBN: 0-070-57027-5
Publisher’s Web Site
International Space University
Navigation Systems for Future Space Vehicles
MSS Project Report
2003
On-Line Text
Doody, Dave
“The Basics of Space Flight”
Jet Propulsion Labs
02/2001
JPL D-20120
Publisher’s Web Site
On-Line Text
Vallado, David A.
“Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications, 2nd Ed.”
Microcosm Press/Kluwer Academic Publishers
2001
ISBN: 1-881-88312-4
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: It doesn’t get more comprehensive than this. Definitely a definitive work.
Montenbruck, Oliver and Eberhard Gill
“Satellite Orbits: Models, Methods, Applications”
Springer
2000
ISBN: 3-540-67280-X
Murray, Carl D. and Stanley F. Dermott
“Solar System Dynamics”
Cambridge University Press
1999
ISBN: 0-521-57597-4
Bond, Victor R. and Mark C. Allman
“Modern Astrodynamics: Fundamentals and Perturbation Methods”
Princeton University Press
1996
ISBN: 0-691-04459-7
Carrou, Jean-Pierre
“Spaceflight Dynamics, Pts. I & II”
Cépadues-Éditions
1995
ISBN: 2-854-28378-3
Wiesel, William E.
“Spaceflight Dynamics”
McGraw-Hill
1989
ISBN: 0-070-70106-7
Szebehely, Victor G.
“Adventures in Celestial Mechanics: A First Course in the Theory of Orbits”
University of Texas Press
1989
ISBN: 0-292-75105-2
Roy, A.E.
“Orbital Motion, 3rd Ed.”
Adam Hilger
1978 (1988)
ISBN: 0-852-74228-2
Danby, J.M.A.
“Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics, 2nd Ed.”
Willmann-Bell
1962 (1988)
ISBN: 0-943-39620-4
Thomson, William T.
“Introduction to Space Dynamics”
Dover Publications
1961 (1986)
ISBN: 0-486-65113-4
