GATE Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics: Space dynamics: central force motion, Keplerian orbits, Kepler's laws and escape velocity – Previous Year Questions
10 GATE previous year questions on Space dynamics: central force motion, Keplerian orbits, Kepler's laws and escape velocity (Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics, Aerospace Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2021 AE Q35 – The velocity required to launch a space shuttle from the surface of Earth to achieve a circular orbit of altitude 250 km is (two decimals). For Earth,…
- GATE 2022 AE Q46 – Consider a high Earth-orbiting satellite of angular momentum per unit mass hሬ⃗ and eccentricity e. The mass of the Earth is M and G is the universal…
- GATE 2023 AE Q62 – A planet has mass 6.41691023 kg and radius 3390 km. For G=6.6710-11\ Nm2/kg2, escape speed (km/s, one decimal place) is .
- GATE 2023 AE Q63 – A circular Earth orbit has period 90 min. Earth radius is 6370 km, mass 5.981024 kg and G=6.6710-11\ Nm2/kg2. Satellite altitude (nearest integer km)…
- GATE 2026 AE Q36 – An earth satellite has the instantaneous position vector r and velocity vector v as given below. Here p and q denote the unit vectors along the x and…
- GATE 2026 AE Q55 – An earth satellite moves in an elliptical orbit with a perigee altitude of 300 km and an apogee altitude of 3000 km. Assume that the radius of the…
- GATE 2025 AE Q53 – F and G denote two points on a spacecraft's orbit around a planet, as indicated in the figure. O is the center of the planet, P is the periapsis, and…
- GATE 2024 AE Q26 – Which of the following statements is/are correct about a satellite moving in a geostationary orbit?
- GATE 2024 AE Q39 – At a point in the trajectory of an unpowered space vehicle moving about the Earth, the altitude above the mean sea level is 600 km, and the speed with…
- GATE 2024 AE Q60 – Consider an artificial satellite moving around the Moon in an elliptic orbit. The altitude of the satellite from the Moon's surface at the perigee is…