Astronautics

This book uses the entire flying process, starting from ground launching of the orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) to injecting payload into earth synchronous orbit, as an example for real-world engineering practices.

Since its discovery in 1610, Europaone of Jupiter's four large moonshas been an object of interest to astronomers and planetary scientists.

This book presents select papers presented during the 6th National Symposium on Rotor Dynamics, held at CSIR-NAL, Bangalore, and focuses on the latest trends in rotor dynamics and various challenges encountered in the design of rotating machinery.

Tbe main purpose of this work was to find a way of placing a meaningful scientific payload within the upper atmosphere of Mars such that certain scientific measurements become possible.

This SpringerBrief provides a general overview of the role of satellite applications for disaster mitigation, warning, planning, recovery and response.

This book focuses on systems engineering, systems thinking, and how that thinking can be learned in practice.

Fluid flows are characterized by uncertain inputs such as random initial data, material and flux coefficients, and boundary conditions.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans.

The book introduces readers to the concept of weightlessness and microgravity, and presents several examples of microgravity research in fluid physics, the material sciences and human physiology.

This book analyzes the problems to be solved urgently in the development of launch vehicle control system.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recently developed space multi-tethers, such as maneuverable space tethered nets and space tethered formation.

Significant advances in the scientific use of space based data were achieved in three joint interdisciplinary projects based on data of the satellite missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE within the R&D program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN.

This third volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book examines recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation.

This book discusses the theory, applicability and numerous examples of Miles' equation in detail.

Aeronautical engineers concerned with the analysis of aircraft dynamics and the synthesis of aircraft flight control systems will find an indispensable tool in this analytical treatment of the subject.

Viscous flow is treated usually in the frame of boundary-layer theory and as two-dimensional flow.

Space is one of the fastest growing military, government and industry sectors.

This book develops a dynamical model of the orbital motion of Lorentz spacecraft in both unperturbed and J2-perturbed environments.

The updated and expanded third edition of this book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems.

This book presents the state of the art in numerical and analytical techniques as well as future trends associated with mission design for libration point orbits.

Space exploration has fascinated us since the launch of the first primitive rockets more than 3,000 years ago, and it continues to fascinate us today.

The safety of the nation's drinking water must be maintained to ensure the health of the public.

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Dynamic Substructures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

In an expanding world with limited resources, optimization and uncertainty quantification have become a necessity when handling complex systems and processes.

The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propulsion that should allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are literally impossible using rocket propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric.

As spinning is still involved in around 60% of all aircraft accidents (BFU, 1985 and Belcastro, 2009), this aerodynamic phenomenon is still not fully understood.

This book offers fascinating insights into the key technical and scientific developments in the history of radar, from the first patent, taken out by Hulsmeyer in 1904, through to the present day.

This sixth volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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This monograph provides readers with tools for the analysis, and control of systems with fewer control inputs than degrees of freedom to be controlled, i.

The 15th International Symposium on Superalloys (Superalloys 2024) highlights technologies for lifecycle improvement of superalloys.

This book presents methods and algorithms to improve noise immunity of the navigation systems of civil aviation aircraft, operating on the basis of satellite radio navigation systems, as well as improving the quality of the transmission of navigation information by selecting a rational communication resource.

This monograph describes the findings of spaceflight research related to spatial orientation, sensorimotor coordination and mental function.

In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective.

Developed and expanded from the work presented at the New Energetic Materials and Propulsion Techniques for Space Exploration workshop in June 2014, this book contains new scientific results, up-to-date reviews, and inspiring perspectives in a number of areas related to the energetic aspects of chemical rocket propulsion.

This brief addresses the design of model predictive control algorithms for performing space rendezvous manoeuvres.

"e;Systems of Commercial Turbofan Engines"e; gives the reader information about the operation of the engine systems, its components and the terminology used throughout the industry.

This book presents a detailed, independent review of essentially all the technical aspects of "e;in situ resource utilization"e; (ISRU), offering the first in-depth discussion of the issues of crew size, ascent from Mars, and ISRU processes.

This book offers a vision of how evolutionary life processes can be modelled.

Sustainable aviation is a long-term strategy aimed at providing innovative solutions to the challenges facing the aviation industry.

This book contributes to the field of hybrid technology, describing the current state of knowledge concerning the hybrid material concept of laminated metallic and composite sheets for primary aeronautical structural applications.

From this book reader will learn the best research topics and the latest development trend in MMESE theory and application.

Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots.

This book introduces the methods for predicting the future behavior of a system's health and the remaining useful life to determine an appropriate maintenance schedule.