Information for Fall 2022 MAE180 (Spacecraft)

General information for Fall 2022 MAE180 (Spacecraft):

The course syllabus (in pdf format) contains information on the course objective, content and grading policy.

Lecture: T/Th 5:00-6:15, Center 113.

Problem Session: T/Th 6:15-6:45, Center 113.

The course grade will be obtained as indicated on the syllabus.

Contact Information:

TA: Yifei Zheng
- Problem session/office hour: M 9-10am, EBU 2, Rm 105.
- Problem session/office hour: W 2-3pm, EBU 2, Rm 105.
- Office: EBU 1, 1601.
- Email: yiz152@ucsd.edu

Instructor: Prof. William McEneaney
- Office hour: T 2:45-3:30, 1809 EBU1 (or contact me to set up a time).
- Office: 1809 EBU 1.
- Email: wmceneaney@ucsd.edu

N.B. regarding email:
- It is essential that your email message contain a proper salutation (with correct title/name) and an appropriate closing. Due to the student/faculty ratio, we do not guarantee that all email will receive a response, but we will make a strong effort to respond to appropriate email.

Take-Home Final:

TENTATIVE Quiz Schedule:

Quiz 1: Thursday, October 13.

Quiz 2: Thursday, November 3.

Quiz 3: Tuesday, November 29.

Regarding the quizzes:

You must bring a blue book.
You may bring a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of HANDWRITTEN notes (both sides).
Bring a pen (preferably two). Your quiz should be done in pen - not pencil. If it is done in pencil, regrade requests will be denied.
You must bring your ID.
You may bring a calculator, but it must be not exceed the following dimensions: 7.75 inches long, 3.75 inches wide.

Homework Assignments:

Notes regarding homework:

See the syllabus regarding due date and time.
Also note the remark there about the fact that the homework you hand in must be clearly your own.
Your homework must be handed in through gradescope by the indicated deadline.
The entry code for the course on gradescope is ZZPRE6.

NOTE:

A short video regarding the propagation of the covariance of the errors in our knowledge of the spacecraft state may be found here in mp4 format.

A short video regarding vector-valued normal random variables may be found here in mp4 format.

There is some matlab code that you may find helpful here.

Material in support of navigation:

Approximate list of topics to be covered:

Gravitational potential.
Two-body problem in the plane.
Coordinate systems and Earth model.
Maneuvers.
Perturbations and interplanetary motion.
Aeromaneuvering.
Telemetry.
Navigation.

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