Learning Fundamentals of Astrodynamics With Matlab and Stk

This volume provides a detailed course in solving astrodynamics problems with MATLAB® and STK® software. It is intended as a companion volume to the long-awaited 2019 second edition of the classic and widely used text, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, which was developed at the U.S. Air Force Academy and originally published in 1971. Topics include:
• Orbit determination and the classical orbital elements
• Coordinate transformations
• Differential correction
• Kepler and Gauss problems
• Integration schemes and error
• Analytic formulations of several common perturbations
For undergraduate engineering students in the field of astrodynamics.

William W. Saylor, who holds a Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering, is co-author of the long-awaited 2019 second edition of Dover's Fundamentals in Astrodynamics by Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, and Jerry E. White, which was originally published in 1971.