Description

This international symposium was held at University of Lille in September 2011 and provided an opportunity to review and focus on the issues related to the recent developments and new challenges in orbit determination and propagation methods. The applications concern the motion of artificial satellites (including space debris, artificial satellites of other planets than earth), asteroids, or meteoroids. Scientific sessions included: Numerical integration of the equations of motion of a satellite; Analytical integration of the equations of motion; Orbit determination methods for artificial satellites and asteroids; Experience from actual spacecraft flight dynamics operations. This volume provides a useful reference for postgraduates and researchers working in this area of astronomy and astrophysics.