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Tutorials  Rocket Propulsion Equation: rocket.pdf  Circular Orbit about a Central Body: central.pdf  Escape velocity: escape.pdf The Natural Space Environment: Effects on Spacecraft: rp1350.pdf

Software
Altitude and velocity of a satellite in a circular orbit about a central body.	orbit.exe
Inertia tensor: coordinate transformations and principal axes.	Visual C++:    inertia.exe Matlab Script:   principal_moi.m

Recommended Books Bate, White, and Mueller, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, 1971 Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine

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