IIT 342 — SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS (CUR-355)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Illinois Institute of Technology (Engineering)
- College/School: IIT Partnership
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: IIT 342
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Orbital mechanics: two-body problem, Kepler's equation, classical orbital elements, and introduction to orbit perturbations. Spacecraft mission analysis: orbital maneuvers and station keeping, earth orbiting, lunar, and interplanetary missions, introduction to orbit determination. Spacecraft attitude dynamics: three-dimensional kinematics and dynamics of spacecraft, rotating reference frames and orientation angles, and spacecraft equations of motion. Spacecraft attitude stability and control: dual-spin platforms, momentum wheels, control-moment gyros, gravity gradient stabilization, introduction to spacecraft attitude determination and control. (Taught at Illinois Institute of Technology as MMAE 411) (4.5 quarter hours)
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: illinois_institute_of_technology_dual_degree.
Documented resource links
EXT-016
- Relationship: taught_at_partner
- Rationale: DePaul catalog lists this course as taught at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the DePaul–IIT joint engineering programs.
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/student-handbooks/undergraduate/univers…
- www.iit.edu/ugaa/joint-programs/depaul-university
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Resource page: EXT-016
Notes
Catalog course key: IIT 342.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000294←depaul/SRC-000977(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Program tags: illinois_institute_of_technology_dual_degree
- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-IIT-342.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-IIT-342.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.