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Introduction to Astrodynamics

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By definition astrodynamics is a truly modern field of engineering, the study of which dates back only as far as the early pioneers of space technology, such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935). It was only realized as a practical field within engineering in the middle of the 20th century, as discussed in Chap. 1, with the onset of the Space Age.

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    3C 273 was one of the first quasars discovered in the early 1960s, alongside 3C 48, and the first object to be identified as a quasi-stellar radio source, or “quasar”, a very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus. 3C 273 is the optically brightest quasar in our sky (apparent magnitude, m ~ 12.9), and one of the closest with a redshift, z, of 0.158.

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    A tessera is an individual tile in a mosaic.

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Macdonald, M. (2014). Introduction to Astrodynamics. In: Macdonald, M., Badescu, V. (eds) The International Handbook of Space Technology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41101-4_4

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