The branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space

Usage examples of astrodynamics.

The contradiction that triggered it was, of course, your score on the astrodynamics test.

The ship had been set down with even greater care than he’d first realized, set down by entities obsessed as much with decorum and pomp as with aero and astrodynamics.

He doubted they knew enough astrodynamics to be able to tell anyone where their hidden colony world lay, so nothing could be gained by interrogating them.

The earthier bits of dialogue, 1 explained, were the result of Gentry's years with the hairy-knuckled, hard-drinking engineers and mathematicians of JPL's Astrodynamics Division, where the Pasadena cops often have to be called in to settle bare-fisted fights over Bessel Functions and nonlinear partial differential equations.