Once, Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov, a genius of cosmonautics, has noted: "Rockets designing starts fromballistics and ends by it". Ballistics and flight dynamics are really a theoretical foundation; designing the ballisticmissiles, launch vehicles and spacecraft is based on that foundation.Tasks of ballistics (selection of optimal flight trajectories and control programs, evaluation of controllability,stability of rockets' flight and SC injection accuracy, calculation of flight tasks etc.) are closely connected with the tasks ofstrength, aerodynamics and other applied tasks of rocket designing. Basic rocket parameters – firing range (or weight ofthe payload injected into the orbit), firing accuracy (or SC injection accuracy), reliability and efficiency of a rocketcomplex etc.For creation of competitive space rocketry, it is necessary to have an efficient system of ballistic provision ofdevelopment works – designing, flight tests and standard operation of rockets.A founder and the first manager of the scientific ballistics school of Yuzhnoye SDO is Nikolai FyodorovichGerasyuta (1919 – 1987), an outstanding scientist, a corresponding member of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences,Professor, Hero of Socialist Labour.Basic tasks of ballistic designing of rockets, phases of development and achievements of Yuzhnoye SDO'sscientific ballistics school are reviewed in the report.
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