Asri-unix.1352
net.space
utzoo!decvax!cca!POURNE@MIT-MC@sri-unix
Wed Apr 28 01:29:21 1982
orbital mechanics
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE MIT-MC AT>
The best text on the subject was by Max Hunter, called THRUST IN
TO SPACE, which explained rockets and orbits and like that.
Unfortunatley I believe it is out of print (my copy is a xerox
Max gave me).
The old "PRINCIPLES OF GUIDED MISSILE DESIGN" has a very good
set of equations, principles, etc. It is in 3 volumnes and
availble in libraries (there was a time when anyone wha was
anyone in the space business had a set of these red books on his
desk; in fact, getting the company to buy you those was a way to
announce to your colleagues that you were "doing space" although
you were of course being paid on an aircraft budget...
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