Astronautics

As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moon and someday go to Mars.

This textbook covers the fundamentals of reliability theory and its application for engineering processes, especially for aircraft units and systems.

This volume addresses the creation, documentation, preservation, and study of the archaeology of lunar, planetary, and interstellar exploration.

This book contains thirty-five selected papers presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems (EUROGEN 2017).

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Test Methods, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8.

This book addresses methods used in the synthesis of light alloys and composites for industrial applications.

This book explores the outcomes on flow control research activities carried out within the framework of two EU-funded projects focused on training-through-research of Marie Sklodowska-Curie doctoral students.

Based on research into jets in supersonic crossflow carried out by the authors' team over the past 15 years, this book summarizes and presents many cutting-edge findings and analyses on this subject.

This book is a winner of International Academy of Astronautics 2023 Life Science Book Award.

This book showcases Nigerian and South African experiences on space politics, policy and strategy vis-a-vis their development and security aspirations, while contributing to the broader African and the Global-South perspectives on the subject.

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This book gathers the best articles presented by researchers and industrial experts at the International Conference on "e;Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)"e;.

Currently, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Commerce (DOC) acquire and operate separate polarorbiting environmental satellite systems that collect data needed for military and civil weather forecasting.

This book presents the lecture notes of the 1st Summer School on Methods and Tools for the Design of Digital Systems, 2015, held in Bremen, Germany.

This book addresses the recent trends in high-temperature coatings that are used to provide oxidation and wear resistance to metallic/ceramic components in extreme environments.

The ground segment is the fundamental backbone of every satellite project, yet it is usually not visible to the public or the end user of a satellite service.

The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated.

The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond.

This book comprehensively describes the physiological changes and consequences that occur in humans during spaceflight.

These are the proceedings of the "e;AstroNet-II International Final Conference"e;.

The technical, scientific, policy, and institutional environment for conducting Earth science research has been changing rapidly over the past few decades.

Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed to assist in the motion control of various types of mini-aircraft: Planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft; helicopters; quadrotor mini-rotorcraft; other fixed-wing aircraft; blimps.

The Earth has limited resources while the resources in space are virtually unlimited.

A Summary of the Workshop to Identify the Gaps and Possible Directions for NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs summarizes the two-day workshop held on March 9-10, 2011, where various stakeholders presented diverse perspectives on matters concerning NASA Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD) programs, NASA mission operators, the role and relationships of NASA MMOD programs to other federal agencies, MMOD and the commercial industry, and orbital debris retrieval and removal.

This book contains the selected papers from the 7th China Aeronautical Science and Technology Conference.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This brief presents several aspects of flight dynamics, which are usually omitted or briefly mentioned in textbooks, in a concise, self-contained, and rigorous manner.

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

This book features the latest theoretical results and techniques in the field of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of vehicles and aircrafts.

The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement describes feasible human settlement of the Moon in the coming century.

Contemporary engineering design is heavily based on computer simulations.

This book aims to develop systematic design methodologies to model-based nonlinear control of aeroengines, focusing on (1) modelling of aeroengine systems-both component-level and identification-based models will be extensively studied and compared; and (2) advanced nonlinear control designs-set-point control, transient control and limit-protection control approaches will all be investigated.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

The first comprehensive resource expressly for aerospace engineers!

This book presents an overall picture of both B2B and B2C marketing strategies, concepts and tools, in the aeronautics sector.

This book provides a basic understanding of adaptive control and its applications in Flight control.

Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts.

This book reports on the design and development of a system that assists remote pilots during the landing procedure.

Saturated Switching Systems treats the problem of actuator saturation, inherent in all dynamical systems by using two approaches: positive invariance in which the controller is designed to work within a region of non-saturating linear behaviour; and saturation technique which allows saturation but guarantees asymptotic stability.

In 1986, the FFC requested that the NRC appoint a committee to examine the field and propose ways by which the POE process could be improved to better serve public and private sector organizations.

This book introduces design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines, and demonstrates how the application of stochastic methods can overcome problems in the accurate prediction of engine lift caused by manufacturing error.

This book acts as a manual for the ancient methods of navigating by the stars, which continue to provide the sailor or pilot with a timeless means of determining location.

This is the first Structural Dynamics book focused on this indispensable aspect of liquid rocket engine design.

The questions of our origin and cosmic abundance of life are among the most compelling facing humanity.