Navigation of planetary spacecraft requires determining a nominal design trajectory that obeys the laws of physics and has a high probability of achieving mission success within the constraints of the mission objectives and the cost of the spacecraft design and mission operations. The cost of spacecraft design and mission operations is related to the probability of successfully performing the mission. Therefore, the trajectory designer and navigator must give as much attention to the mathematics of probability and statistics as to the laws of physics.
Probability and Statistics
Space Technology Library
2025-06-06
31 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Probability , Statistics , Pascal , Pascal’s triangle , Binomial expansion , Probability distribution function (PDF) , n-dimensional normal PDF , Covariance matrix , Information matrix , Bivariate normal PDF , Major axis , Minor axis , Error ellipse , Rayleigh , Rayleigh PDF , Circular error probable (CEP) , Central limit theorem , Lass, Harry , Fourier transform , Monte Carlo , Binomial theorem , Confidence limits , Binomial coefficients , Stirling , Potassium and thallium experiments , Miller, R. C. , Kusch, P. , Wang, J. F. C. , Wachman, H. Y. Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems , Mathematical Applications in Computer Science , Physics and Astronomy
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