Space science

Spotlighting the field of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), this book illustrates and implements state-of-the-art methodologies within the complex process of aerospace system design under uncertainties.

NASA's Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program within the Office of Space Flight has proposed a new framework for space technology and systems developmentAdvanced Systems, Technology, Research, and Analysis (ASTRA) for future space flight capabilities.

Secrets of the Moon: Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface provides a unique account of the origin of key features on the lunar surface.

The reality of sunlight-based sailing in space began in May 2010, and solar sail technology and science have continued to evolve rapidly through new space missions.

This is the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Flow Induced Noise and Vibration (FLINOVIA), which was held in Penn State, USA, in April 2016.

Fault Detection and Fault-tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes is the first text dedicated to showing the latest developments in the use of sliding-mode concepts for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and fault-tolerant control in dynamical engineering systems.

EmDrive provides a comprehensive description of the theoretical background of this emerging technology.

The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC's decadal survey for solar system research.

Quantum computing is a field in which advanced technologies like quantum communication, artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to secure and speed up connectivity using quantum computers, quantum drones or quantum satellites.

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In the past decade, the field of small satellites has expanded the space industry in a powerful way.

This book discusses autonomous spacecraft navigation based on X-ray pulsars, analyzing how to process X-ray pulsar signals, how to simulate them, and how to estimate the pulse's time of arrival based on epoch folding.

The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea-and also how they forge that experience.

This book surveys recent applications of inspection models, maintenance models and cumulative damage models, as well as discusses the policies involved with these models.

The book collects selected papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2024), organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and hosted by Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, China.

This proceedings book presents selected papers from the 5th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers (ICSINC), held in Yuzhou, China, from November 29 to December 1, 2018.

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).

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding radar energy warfare and stealth technology.

In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism.

This volume of the series Springer Briefs in Space Life Sciences explains the physics and biology of radiation in space, defines various forms of cosmic radiation and their dosimetry, and presents a range of exposure scenarios.

This volume presents the conference proceedings from FinDrones 2023.

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space.

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 is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group.

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

The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades.

New Horizons: Reconnaissance of the Pluto-Charon System and the Kuiper Belt C.

Advances over the past decades in space flight technology have allowed U.

Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA's spacescience enterprise.

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

The book provides an analysis of the dynamics of the global launch service market associated with small satellites, by placing a particular focus on its unfolding trends and future outlook.

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

Seit mehr als 50 Jahren war kein Mensch mehr auf dem Mond.

In this new edition, the authors James Miller and Connie Weeks dive deeper into how computer programming has assisted with planetary spacecraft navigation; evaluating real-world results and relying on complex mathematical theory to observe advancements made in this rapidly accelerating field.

Here for the first time you can read:how a space technology start-up is pioneering work on expandable space station moduleshow Robert Bigelow licensed the TransHab idea from NASA, and how his company developed the technology for more than a decadehow, very soon, a Bigelow expandable module will be docked with the International Space Station.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book systematically investigates the Mars entry problem from the perspectives of deterministic optimization, uncertainty optimization, and guidance.

In 2003, Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Joint Planning and Development Office (JDPO) to plan the development of an air transportation system capable of meeting potential air traffic demand for 2025.

This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc.

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

This handbook, directed at medical professionals and students who are involved in developing the space industry or are academicians doing research in this area, covers current pharmaceutical knowledge about the difference in medication efficacy in space versus on Earth and includes trial results and best practices for the space research and travel industry.

This is the comprehensive story of NASA's pioneering Mars 2020 mission, which at this moment continues to break ground on the surface of the Red Planet.

The space shuttle orbiter has already been struck many times by small meteoroids and orbital debris, but it has not been damaged severely.

The Third Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, like its immediate predecessor, was organized with emphasis on the calculation of flows relevant to aircraft, ships, and missiles.

This book introduces the fundamentals and principles of laser shock peening (LSP) for aeronautical materials.

This book examines ascent trajectories of space launch vehicles and re-entry trajectories of space capsules.

The book provides an introduction to the mechanics of composite materials, written for graduate students and practitioners in industry.