Re: [amsat-bb] Moonstation

["laura halliday" <marsgal42@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

William Leijenaar <pe1rah@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Maybe some amateurs that are good in
>calculating/simulating a way to get from earth to the
>moon ?

Have a look at Chapter 7, "Lunar Trajectories", in
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by Bate, Mueller and White.

They focus on the patched-conic approximation. This
would not have been good enough for an Apollo mission,
but is more than enough for feasibility studies.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH     "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg                       pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W     - Hospital/Shafte





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