Media Storage Type : DVD-ROM
NPTEL Course Name : Space Technology
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. Amit Kumar
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Madras
NPTEL Lecture Count : 27
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - Review of fluid mechanics
Lecture 2 - Thrust from stationary rocket engine/motor, specific impulse
Lecture 3 - Rocket vehicle acceleration, the rocket equation in free space
Lecture 4 - Effect of gravity and atmospheric drag
Lecture 5 - Ascent phase and trajectories
Lecture 6 - Chemical rockets and multi-staging
Lecture 7 - Limit of multi-staging, optimal staging with identical stages
Lecture 8 - Optimal staging with non-identical stages
Lecture 9 - Parallel staging
Lecture 10 - Electrical propulsion
Lecture 11 - Optimal payload in an electrical rocket
Lecture 12 - Fundamentals of orbital mechanics
Lecture 13 - Equation of motion for the two body problem
Lecture 14 - Elliptic trajectories
Lecture 15 - Parabolic and hyperbolic trajectories
Lecture 16 - Orbital maneuvers in Earth-satellite system
Lecture 17 - Orbital maneuvers in deep space missions
Lecture 18 - Low thrust missions
Lecture 19 - Atmosphere, radiation and magnetic fields
Lecture 20 - Introduction, re-entry types
Lecture 21 - Re-entry dynamics for ballistic re-entry
Lecture 22 - Re-entry heating
Lecture 23 - Introduction to Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics; Space Environment, Satellite subsystems
Lecture 24 - Spherical Geometry, Various Axes Systems
Lecture 25 - Attitude Dynamics
Lecture 26 - Attitude Determination Techniques
Lecture 27 - Attitude Stabilization and Control