Computational Spacecraft Dynamics

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Who might find the above link useful?

The above online textbook is most useful for QMUL’s second year Aerospace Engineering undergraduate students taking EMS515U: Introduction to Spacecraft Dynamics. It could also be a useful resource for other educators interested in teaching orbital mechanics, especially using computational tools like numpy.

Personal Recommendation of Pre-requisites

This is my personal list of pre-requisites (not prescribed or stated as so by my employers):

1. An interest in space engineering.
2. Vector algebra and basic vector differentiation.
3. Deep familiarity of classical mechanics, especially as taught by me using symbolic modelling tools over here.

Assessment Profile for QMUL course EMS515U

All assessments are conducted on the JupyterHub platform provided by QMUL.

Assessment is carried out through the following elements:

• A coursework on orbital mechanics. This is upto and includes the lecture notes on Special Orbits (40%)
• Final online exam in January assessment period (60%).

For students requiring resits, assessment is carried out through a reassessment written exam in the LSR period (100%).

Schedule

Assessment	Release Date	Due Date
Coursework 1	11/12/2024 at 17:00	16/12/2024 at 23:59
Final Exam	TBD	TBD
Late Summer Resit	TBD	TBD