By Professor Alessandra Celletti (auth.)

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1). Let F 1 be the force exerted by P2 on P1 and let F 2 be the force exerted by P1 on P2 . P1 F1 F2 B P2 R r1 r2 O Fig. 1. Distance vectors in an inertial reference frame with origin in O. By the action and reaction principle one has F 1 = −F 2 , where F1 = G m1 m2 r . 1), the equations of motion are given by the expressions m1 m2 r d2 r 1 = G 2 dt r2 r 2 d r m1 m2 r . 2) d2 r 1 d2 r 2 + m =0, 2 dt2 dt2 whose integration provides the relations: m1 dr1 dr + m2 2 = C 1 , m1 r1 + m2 r2 = C 1 t + C 2 , dt dt with C 1 , C 2 being constant vectors.

Dt Through the angular momentum integral one gets dr ϑ − ϑ0 = h r2 2(E − Ve (r)) = arccos r0 r −1 1− , E E0 where r0 is such that Ve (r0 ) is minimum and E0 = E(r0 ), namely r0 = h2 , μ E0 = − μ2 . 11) we find p = r0 , e= 1− E , E0 ϑ0 = g0 . In summary we obtain that the parameter e is related to the energy E by e= 1+ 2h2 E . e. e. e. e. e > 1): the trajectory is a hyperbola. 8 Spacecraft transfers As a practical implementation of Keplerian orbits, we consider the problem of spacecraft transfers.

4). 8). 1 Poincar´ e map An effective tool for investigating the dynamical properties of a mechanical system is obtained by introducing the so–called Poincar´e map [8], which reduces the study of a continuous system to that of a discrete mapping. 1) where f = f (z) is a generic regular vector field. Let Φ(t; z 0 ) be the flow at time t with initial condition z 0 and let Σ be an (n−1)–dimensional hypersurface transverse to the flow1 , which we shall refer to as the Poincar´e section. 1), let z p be the intersection of the periodic orbit with Σ and let U be a neighborhood of z p on Σ.

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