When I was a student at Wuhan University, the last captive individual of baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), species freshwater dolphin, living Freshwater Dolphin Research Centre Institute Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy Sciences [...]

This work is an example of application of nonlinear programming to a problem of three-dimensional trajectory optimization for multistage launch vehicles for geostationary orbit missions. The main objective is to minimize fuel consumption or equivalently to maximize the payload. The launch vehicle considered here, Europa-II, consists of 5 thrust phases and 2 coast phases. Major parameters of the...