Astronautics

This textbook provides a coherent and structured overview of fluid mechanics, a discipline concerned with many natural phenomena and at the very heart of the most diversified industrial applications and human activities.

Young addresses the impressive expansion across existing and developing commercial space business markets, with multiple private companies competing in the payload launch services sector.

This book collects selected papers from the 27th Conference of Spacecraft TT&C Technology in China held in Guangzhou on November 9-12, 2014.

This book discusses the journey of Dr.

This book summarizes what is currently known about gravity sensing and response mechanisms in microorganisms, fungi, lower and higher plants; starting from the historical eye-opening experiments from the 19th century up to today's extremely rapid advancing cellular, molecular and biotechnological research.

This book focuses on the combustion performance and application of innovative energetic materials for solid and hybrid space rocket propulsion.

This book focuses on flight vehicles and their navigational systems, discussing different forms of flight structures and their control systems, from fixed wings to rotary crafts.

This book describes the technologies of wireless power beaming to the aerospace crafts, such as the drone, flying car, aircraft, spacecraft, and rocket.

The context of leadership has changed.

The book collects selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2022), organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and hosted by University of Toronto, Canada in July 2022.

Experimental Techniques, Rotating Machinery & Acoustics, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book includes a carefully curated selection of contributions that were presented at the 17th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps) held in Dubai, UAE, from March 6th to 10th, 2023.

The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemini suborbital and Earth orbital missions, to the lunar landings, and thence to the first reusable winged crewed spaceplane that the United States operated for three decades.

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

A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.

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

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.

The goal of this book is to serve both as a practical technical reference and a resource for gaining a fuller understanding of the state of the art of spacecraft momentum control systems, specifically looking at control moment gyroscopes (CMGs).

"e;Manned Spaceflight Log"e; discusses over 40 recent spaceflights from September 2006 through September 2012, a time of great change in human spaceflight history.

Rotating Machinery, Optical Methods & Scanning LDV Methods, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the sixth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

An extensive text reference includes around an asteroid a new and important topic Covers the most updated contents in spacecraft dynamics and control, both in theory and application Introduces the application to motion around asteroids a new and important topic Written by a very experienced researcher in this area

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

This contributed volume contains the research results presented at the 4th Machining Innovations Conference, Hannover, September 2013.

The first comprehensive resource expressly for aerospace engineers!

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of aerospace technology and aviation safety, as presented by researchers at the 9th World Congress "e;Aviation in the XXI Century"e;: Safety in Aviation and Space Technologies, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 26-28 2021.

This book contains select papers presented during the 2nd National Conference on Small Satellites, discussing the latest research and developments relating to small satellite technology.

Quo Vadis: Evolution of Modern Navigation presents an intelligent and intelligible account of the essential principles underlying the design of satellite navigational systems-with introductory chapters placing them in context with the early development of navigational methods.

This book shares a range of new and diverse insights on On-Orbit Servicing (OOS), and examines its implications especially from political, legal, economic, and security perspectives.

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 fully revised and updated third edition covers the physical and mathematical fundamentals of vibration analysis, including single degree of freedom, multi-degree of freedom, and continuous systems.

This book investigates how broadband internet can be provided to remote and isolated communities through the use of satellite and other enabling technologies, in the form of a self-contained broadband apparatus.

This book highlights the prevention of possible accidents and crashes of aircrafts by analyzing the many factors that affect such events.

This book discusses the journey of Dr.

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics.

This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design.

Inevitably, there are times in a nation's history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person.

This is the proceedings of the ERCOFTAC Workshop on Progress in Wall Turbulence: Understanding and Modelling, that was held in Lille, France from June 18 to 20, 2014.

This book opens with a discussion of the vorticity-dynamic formulation of the low Mach number viscous flow problem.

Sustainable aviation is a long-term strategy to provide innovative solutions to the aviation industry's challenges.

Rockets were invented in China, the home of many modern inventions, including ancient astronomy, and were used originally for military purposes in the 13th century.

This textbook introduces space vehicle maneuvering, propulsion, dynamics and control, and discusses the space environment and its influence on the spacecraft propulsion system.

This book provides a systematic and standardized approach based on the authors' over 30 years of research experience with weight function methods, as well as the relevant literature.

This book is the sixth edition.

This book focuses on the design and application of advanced trajectory optimization and guidance and control (G&C) techniques for aerospace vehicles.

This book introduces readers to adaptive interference mitigation techniques based on multiple antennas for global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) in the time, domain, spatial and spatial-temporal domains.