Astronautics

Small satellite technology is opening up a new era in space exploration offering reduced cost of launch and maintenance, operational flexibility with on-orbit reconfiguration, redundancy etc.

These proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC 2018,  held during 23rd-25th May in Harbin, China.

This book includes high-quality research papers presenting the latest advances in aerospace and related engineering fields.

This book aims to provide a complete exposure about armaments from their design to launch from the combat aircraft.

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

This book presents advanced case studies that address a range of important issues arising in space engineering.

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This well-documented and fascinating book tells how, over the centuries, a series of visionaries, scientists, technologists, and politicians fostered the involvement of Italy in space exploration.

On 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American man on the Moon by the end of the decade.

Now in a revised fourth edition, this course-tested textbook explains the basic principles and underlying theory of the core avionic systems in modern civil and military aircraft.

This textbook is for readers new or returning to the practice of optimization whose interest in the subject may relate to a wide range of products and processes.

This book introduces several observer-based methods, including:* the sliding-mode observer* the adaptive observer* the unknown-input observer and* the descriptor observer methodfor the problem of fault detection, isolation and estimation, allowing readers to compare and contrast the different approaches.

This book gathers contributions to the 21st biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB) and the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR).

This book addresses an essential gap in the regulatory regime, which provides legislation, statements and guidelines on airlines, airports, air navigation services providers and States in the field of aviation, but is notably lacking when it comes to the rights of the airline passenger, and the average citizen who is threatened by military air strikes.

This book focuses on different facets of flight data analysis, including the basic goals, methods, and implementation techniques.

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

This book describes the future of the Artemis Lunar Program from the years 2017 to about 2030.

This volume consists of 14 contributed chapters written by leading experts, offering in-depth discussions of the mathematical modeling and algorithmic aspects for tackling a range of space engineering applications.

This book concentrates on high-fidelity numerical methods for predicting internal flows within aeroengines' compressors.

This book discusses the innovative design, cable-net design and analysis, control, deployment, development and applications of large space-deployable antennas.

Laboratory facilities are complex, technically sophisticated, and mechanically intensive structures that are expensive to build and to maintain.

This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design.

This book presents up-to-date knowledge of dynamic analysis in engineering world.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the fail-safe and damage tolerance approaches, allowing weight savings and increasing aircraft reliability and structural integrity.

This book highlights new methods and parametric algorithms for the digital coherent processing of signals in airborne radar systems located on air vehicles.

This book is based on the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Global Space Governance study commissioned by the 2014 Montreal Declaration that called upon civil society, academics, governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders to undertake an international interdisciplinary study.

This textbook explains turbulent flows using an introductory but fundamental approach to teaching the core principles, striking a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of the topic without overwhelming the reader with mathematical detail.

TheseProceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2016, held during18th-20th May in Changsha, China.

These three volumes entitled Advances in Hypersonics contain the Proceedings of the Second and Third Joint US/Europe Short Course in Hypersonics which took place in Colorado Springs and Aachen.

Die Menschheit steht am Beginn eines neuen Zeitalters: der Eroberung des Weltraums.

This book offers a comprehensive look at materials science topics in aerospace, air vehicle structures and manufacturing methods for aerospace products, examining recent trends and new technological developments.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2022) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2022 held during 25th-27th May, 2022 in Beijing, China.

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, working with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

It's been thirty-five years since people last trod the dusty plains of the Moon.

Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we can consider tapping space resources and expanding beyond Earth's atmosphere.

This contributed book focuses on optimization methods inspired by nature such as Harmony Search Algorithm, Drosophila Food-Search Algorithm, Cohort intelligence algorithm and its variations, fuzzy logic along with their hybridization variants.

Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems.

In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space.

The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars fills a need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, drawing on many photographs never before published.

As advanced in-space propulsion moves from science fiction to reality, the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, or VASIMR(R) engine, is a leading contender for making 'Mars in a month' a possibility.

Humans and space When faced with the issue of space exploration, one generally has an idea of the ?

The European Standard EN 9100 is the industry-specific norm of the aerospace and defence industry.

The highly successful Hubble Space Telescope was meant to change our view and understanding of the universe.

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the seventh volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book collects selected papers from the 9th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers held online, in December, 2021.