Astrodynamics and Celestial Mechanics

Dear Colleagues,

Celestial mechanics is a classical and old discipline. The research on celestial mechanics, such as the three body problem, has attracted a number of famous scientists including Newton, Euler, Lagrange, Poincaré, Hill, Laplace, Cauchy, and Poisson. The research has generated many new theories in mathematics, dynamics, and physics. The origin of astrodynamics is celestial mechanics. Many classical methods in celestial mechanics, such as perturbation theory and the average method, are still used to design spacecraft orbits today in engineering practice. Several new methods such as invariant manifolds and weekly stable boundary theory have also been developed to handle the orbit or trajectory design in the restricted three body problem. As many new natural celestial bodies are observed and more complex spacecraft missions are proposed, models and methods should be developed to explain the new observed phenomena and design missions. This Special Issue will focus on new methods and results in celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.      

Prof. Dr. Shengping Gong
Prof. Dr. Dong Qiao
Prof. Dr. Yazhong Luo
Guest Editors

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