Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
Book Review: Considered a GNC handbook by Air Force space types
Summary: 4 Stars
Ran into this one in grad school; has an excellent treatment of vector calculus in the appendix. Get this one if you are into orbital mechanics, guidance and nav. It's a short paperback type of book, easy to cart around in a briefcase. All steely-eyed missile men have this one.Book Review: It was cool
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a good basic cookbook of rocket sciencBook Review: An excellent introductory text to the subject
Summary: 4 Stars
This work was written by three instructors at the USAF Academy for use as a textbook. It provides an excellent introduction to astrodynamics. A knowledge of calculus and linear algebra is required, but the derivations are quite reasonable. The diagrams are also very good, enabling the reader to visualize complex spatial orientations.The book's only weakness is its age. Several real-world examples are out-of-date, and the numerical analysis techniques do not reflect the current state-of-the-art.
Nevertheless, this is the best book to start learning astrodynamics, and gives a solid foundation from which to study more advanced texts.
Book Review: good basic undergraduate text
Summary: 4 Stars
Bate, Mueller and White's (BMW) Fundamentals of Astrodynamics was written
initially for cadets at the US Air Force Academy to provide them
with an overview of space dynamics, coordinate systems and orbital
mechanics. BMW is a good "guided tour" of the subject, but has
weaknesses in areas such as the two-point boundary-value problem,
and in the theory of perturbations. When used as a text or reference
handbook for basic two-body orbital problems, BMW is a quick,
inexpensive and reliable guide. More sophisticated references should
be consulted for more sophisticated problems. A must on every
satellite engineer or trajectory analyst's bookshelf.