INTRODUCTION TO SPACE SCIENCES AND SPACECRAFT APPLICATIONS

By R. HILIN

CONTENTS INVARIANT MANIFOLDS, LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES AND SPACE MISSION DESIGN CHAOS AND DIFFUSION IN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS THROUGH STABLE-UNSTABLE MANIFOLDS REGULAR AND CHAOTIC DYNAMICS OF PERIODIC AND QUASI-PERIODIC MOTIONS SURVEY OF RECENT RESULTS ON WEAK STABILITY BOUNDARIES AND APPLICATIONS ON THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE MOON OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORIES TO THE INTERIOR EARTH-MOON LAGRANGE POINT ON THE USE OF THE EARTH-MOON LAGRANGIAN POINT L1 FOR SUPPORTING THE MANNED LUNAR EXPLORATION MANIFOLDS AND RADIATION PROTECTION THREE-BODY INVARIANT MANIFOLD TRANSITION WITH ELECTRIC PROPULSION FROM SPUTNIK TO THE MOON: ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY FROM SPACE SPACE EXPLORATION: HOW SCIENCE AND ECONOMY MAY WORK TOGETHER