Space science

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

When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space.

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.

In order to reflect the increasing importance and interest of the microsatellites in high technology and scientific applications in space, the Colloquium on Microsatellites as Research Tools was organized to promote its usage and technology development and to foster the international cooperation, especially in the area of the Asia pacific region.

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.

Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities is a study to advise the Department of the Navy regarding its transition strategy to achieve a network-centric naval force through technology application.

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

NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of extraterrestrial materials by spaceflight missions.

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

This book offers detailed insights into new methods for high-fidelity CFD, and their industrially relevant applications in aeronautics.

This fundamental 3rd Edition offers a comprehensive overview of performance declines observed in astronauts and cosmonauts throughout various space missions, spanning from Gagarin's flight to the Apollo lunar surface activities, as well as Space Shuttle landings and long-duration stays on board the International Space Station.

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments.

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.

I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel- lar flight.

This second edition of Spacecraft Power Systems is a comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals, design trades, components, controls, and operations of spacecraft power systems based on the real-world design and operations of spacecraft that have successfully flown for decades.

This book provides the first comprehensive comparison of the Aircraft Maintenance Program (AMP) requirements of the two most widely known aviation regulators: the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes.

It is well known that the restricted three-body problem has triangular equilibrium points.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

Space is one of the fastest growing military, government and industry sectors.

Extremum-seeking control tracks a varying maximum or minimum in a performance function such as output or cost.

The space shuttle is a unique national resource.

As part of its ongoing commitment to the nation's space program, NASA's medical leadership asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review specific aspects of the scientific basis, policies, and procedures associated with the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH).

A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission.

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

Through an examination of case studies, agency briefings, and existing reports, and drawing on personal knowledge and direct experience, the Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions found that candidate projects for multiagency collaboration in the development and implementation of Earth-observing or space science missions are often intrinsically complex and, therefore costly, and that a multiagency approach to developing these missions typically results in additional complexity and cost.

For the first time, a textbook that brings together classical predictive control with treatment of up-to-date robust and stochastic techniques.

The book presents principles of operation of radar and radionavigation systems.

A scientist's inspiring vision of our return to the Moon as humanity's next thrilling step in space explorationJust over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum.

This book gathers contributions to the 20th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB) and the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR).