Space science

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

This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program.

This book de-emphasizes the formal mathematical description of spacecraft on-board attitude and orbit applications in favor of a more qualitative, concept-oriented presentation of these topics.

This book focuses on the foundations of compressible flow, illustrating the use of principles of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics in the development of compressible flow equations.

Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive survey of the planetary physics and physical chemistry of our own solar system.

This practical manual provides essential material for the extensive world-wide community of non-professional astronomers.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990.

This textbook provides the fundamentals of aeroelasticity, with particular attention to problems of interest to aeronautical engineering.

Effective software is essential to the success and safety of the Space Shuttle, including its crew and its payloads.

This book combines relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology in a single volume, providing an introduction to each subject that enables students to understand more detailed treatises as well as the current literature.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has made remarkable progress in the last two decades and is becoming an important, if not inevitable, analytical tool for both fundamental and practical fluid dynamics research.

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

This book consolidates decades of knowledge on space flight navigation theory, which has thus far been spread across various research articles.

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

The beginning of the 2020's witnessed dozens of commercial astronauts fly to space on a variety of vehicles.

This proceeding comprises peer-reviewed papers of the 2021 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2021), held from 15-17 November 2021 in Jeju, South Korea.

This book discusses the recent advances in aircraft design methodologies.

This book provides a contemporary look at spaceports, not only from relevant technological drivers, policies, and legal perspectives, but also from impacts associated with airspace use and aviation stakeholders.

This book contains the original peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 6th China Aeronautical Science and Technology Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China, in September 2023.

This proceedings volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 8th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, held in Beijing, China on 15~17 November, 2023.

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

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

Advanced Aerospace Applications, Volume 1.

This revised edition provides an up-to-date summary of the field of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, dealing with their origin, propagation, and composition,.

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 book provides recommendations for thermal and structural modelling of spacecraft structures for predicting thermoelastic responses.

For the last several decades, the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) has advocated a systematic approach to exploration of the solar system; that is, the information and understanding resulting from one mission provide the scientific foundations that motivate subsequent, more elaborate investigations.

This updated, second edition adds more reviews of modern four-winged aircraft belonging to convertiplanes, Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAVs, and solar planes.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2020) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2020 held during 22nd-25th November in Chengdu, China.

The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation.

Every ten years ICAO holds a worldwide air transport conference.

Mathematical Modelling of Aerospace Dynamic Systems with Practical Applications provides mathematical models for several aerospace dynamic systems: aircraft, rotorcraft, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), mini air vehicles (MAVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUWVs), and satellite-coordinate systems.

This book introduces the methods for predicting the future behavior of a system's health and the remaining useful life to determine an appropriate maintenance schedule.

When NASA's SLS-1 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39-B for the Artemis I mission in early morning hours of November 16, 2022, it culminated more than a decade of intense effort by NASA, its prime contractors and thousands of subcontracted companies across the United States and Europe.

This book presents the results of a European-Chinese collaborative research project, Manipulation of Reynolds Stress for Separation Control and Drag Reduction (MARS), including an analysis and discussion of the effects of a number of active flow control devices on the discrete dynamic components of the turbulent shear layers and Reynolds stress.

This book describes the basic concepts of spacecraft operations for both manned and unmanned missions.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology and their potential applications.

This book is an exposition of classical mechanics and relativity that addresses the question of whether it is possible to send probes to extrasolar systems.

This book provides an introduction to the main design principles, methods, procedures, and development trends in spacecraft power systems.

This book highlights the synthesis of polarization selection system in the background of passive noise formed by reflections from space-distributed targets.

This insider's account, a penetrating view of science policy and politics during two presidencies, captures the euphoria that characterized the space program in the late seventies and early eighties and furnishes an invaluable perspective on the Challenger tragedy and the future of the United States in space.

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation.

Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors.

Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in "e;Robotic Exploration of the Solar System"e; a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System As in their previous book Lunar Exploration, the subject will be treated wherever possible from an engineering and scientific standpoint.

Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample Return Mission: Technological Innovation and Advances covers the second Japanese asteroid sample return mission.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to generative design in the aerospace sector, guiding readers from initial creative concepts to the final stages of manufacturing.

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

With current technology, a voyage to Mars and back will take threeyears.