Noah Sadaka is a Master’s student at Purdue University studying Astrodynamics. He's working on how resonant orbits in the circular restricted three body problem, or CR3BP, can be used in spacecraft mission design. He says that part of what is so exciting about working in this field is that trajectories and orbits originally simulated in the CR3BP are being used to fly actual missions, including the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming NASA Gateway space station around the Moon! To keep himself firmly grounded on Earth, you can find him cycling through Indiana cornfields and trying out new recipes when cooking. Noah's the real deal, so keep those ears open and check out the topics we cover (in chronological order) below:
Topics & Concepts
Apollo 13 & Free Return Trajectories
Burns & Manoeuvres
The Moon & Lunar Vicinity
The (Circular Restricted) 3-Body Problem [(CR)3BP]
What's in a "body"?
Newton's Gravitational Equation
Analytic Solutions & The Relative 2-Body Model
The Bi-Circular Restricted 4-Body Problem
The Parker Solar Probe
Patched Conics
Perturbations
The Rubber Ducky Analogy
Chaotic Systems
Periodic Orbits
Solar System Instability
Resonant Orbits
Lagrange Points
Reference Frames: Intertial vs. Rotating
Pendulums & Equilibrium
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
The Finale: Conic Motion &
/// CONTACT + EXTRAS
Website: https://noahsadaka.com
Instagram: @NoahSadaka (https://www.instagram.com/noahsadaka/)
LinkedIn: Noah Sadaka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-sadaka-36b4ba10a/)
Episode Art By Lagrange_points.jpg: created by NASAderivative work: Xander89 (talk) - Lagrange_points.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7547312
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