Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Includes methods for determining thermal accelerations in spacecraft
- Features an overview of Pioneer and Flyby anomalies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
For the second anomaly, the flyby anomaly, a tiny glitch in the velocity of spacecraft that perform gravity assisting maneuvers on Earth, no definitive answer is put forward; however a quite promising strategy for examining the problem is provided and a new mission is proposed. The proposal largely consists in using the Galileo Navigational Satellite System to track approaching spacecraft, and in considering a small test body that approaches Earth from a highly elliptic trajectory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
With a previous background in Aerospace Engineering, Frederico Francisco undertook his PhD and subsequent research to date in connection with interplanetary spacecraft trajectory anomalies. The key achievement in this work was the development of a reliable method to determine the thermal accelerations in spacecraft that proved to be essential in solving the longstanding problem of the Pioneer anomaly.
Besides his main focus on physics, he has also collaborated in research activities related to rail infrastructure maintenance and management and cultivates a wide range of personal interests including economy and politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trajectory Anomalies in Interplanetary Spacecraft
Book Subtitle: A Method for Determining Accelerations Due to Thermal Emissions and New Mission Proposals
Authors: Frederico Francisco
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18980-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18979-6Published: 12 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38704-8Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18980-2Published: 02 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 87
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics