Space science

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

Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.

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

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and place and ultimately contributing to the debates about being human in the digital age.

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.

Ring Current Investigations offers a comprehensive description of ring current dynamics in the Earth's magnetosphere as part of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system.

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.

A comprehensive summary of the mineralogy of all meteorite groups and the origin of their minerals.

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.

The intention of this book is to shine a bright light on the intellectual context of Euler's contributions to physics and mathematical astronomy.

This volume includes 16 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2005 U.

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.

With an emphasis on numerical modelling, Physics of the Sun: A First Course presents a quantitative examination of the physical structure of the Sun and the conditions of its extended atmosphere.

Just Like Being There is the first collection of science fiction stories by award-winning author and aerospace engineer Eric Choi spanning his 25 year writing career.

The context of leadership has changed.

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.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical Engineering (ICIME 2021).

Vacuum plays an important role in science and technology.

This Handbook of Numerical Simulation of In-Flight Icing covers an array of methodologies and technologies on numerical simulation of in-flight icing and its applications.

In this book, Dr.

The mechanics of similarity encompasses the analysis of dimensions, performed by various procedures, the gasdynamic similarity and the model technology.

This volume of the Series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences summarizes the newest finding in the field of mental health and physiological exercise in Space.

Aeroelasticity is an essential discipline for the design of airplanes, unmanned systems, and innovative configurations.

This book tells the story of the four missions to maintain Hubble's successful operation.

This is the second volume of a two volume set which presents the results of the 31st International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW31), held in Nagoya, Japan in 2017.

This book presents relevant issues for the development of computer technology in general and civil aviation in particular, related to the promising task of developing magnetoresistive memory.

Because of the Moon's unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASA's space exploration vision.