Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
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Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
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Re: Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
#2Several of the links there need to be updated. I just emailed them to let them know, so you don't have to.
Re: Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
#3This link is old. The new one is this: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/. I know that sometimes old links are gold, but I can't tell if this is really the case.
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#4This is excellent: "See How It Flies": http://www.av8n.com/how/
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#5Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, in 3 days time, going this fast, it'll hit this object in 4 days" that I just find utterly fascinating but am hopelessly ignorant about.
Re: Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
#6Several of the links there need to be updated. I just emailed them to let them know, so you don't have to.
thank you!
Re: Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
#7Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, in 3 days time, going this fast, it'll hit this object in 4 days" that I just find utterly fascinating but am hopelessly ignorant about.
Kerbal Space Program. The original is more refined at this point, the second one will eventually have better tutorials, but if you watch Scott Manley videos you'll have the basics in no time. Then there's Dover Press with Fundamentals of Astrodynamics.
Fun for everyone.
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#8Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, in 3 days time, going this fast, it'll hit this object in 4 days" that I just find utterly fascinating but am hopelessly ignorant about.
As of today, I think the best way to learn orbital mechanics is playing Kerbal Space Program.
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#9Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, in 3 days time, going this fast, it'll hit this object in 4 days" that I just find utterly fascinating but am hopelessly ignorant about.
BMW and do the exercises by hand with pencil and paper.
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#10Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, in 3 days time, going this fast, it'll hit this object in 4 days" that I just find utterly fascinating but am hopelessly ignorant about.
I'm a professional astrodynamicist, and I can echo the other commenters about KSP. I used it to study in my undergrad. I don't know of any way to get a better intuitive understanding of how the thrust directions affect trajectory, honestly.