A comprehensive graduate-level textbook covering the complete arc of spacecraft trajectory analysis and mission design from the two-body problem and Kepler's equation through interplanetary mission design, three-body dynamics, attitude control, orbital debris, and human Mars missions.
Every major result is derived from first principles. Every algorithm is developed before it is applied. The treatment moves from classical orbital mechanics through statistical orbit determination, optimal trajectory design, spacecraft systems engineering, and mission operations, ending at the frontier of cislunar infrastructure, autonomous spacecraft, and the astrodynamics of sustained human presence beyond Earth.
For graduate students in aerospace engineering and practicing astrodynamicists who need both rigorous foundations and operational depth in a single volume that covers everything from Hohmann transfers to digital twins, from Euler's equations to Mars entry descent and landing, from Lambert's problem to space traffic management.
