In this case study, we learn how to compute the position of an Earth-orbiting spacecraft as a function of time. As an exercise, we compute the position of John Glenn's Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 as it orbited the Earth during the third flight of NASA's Mercury program.


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    Title :

    NASA Computational Case Study: The Flight of Friendship 7


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    Publication date :

    2012-06-29


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English





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