Space science

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.

In May 1995 a meeting took place at the Manchester Metropolitan Uni- versity, UK, with the title International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation Phenomena.

The book addresses the overall integrated design aspects of a space transportation system involving several disciplines like propulsion, vehicle structures, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, navigation, guidance and control systems, stage auxiliary systems, thermal systems etc.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of sustainable materials and manufacturing techniques in aviation that reduce fuel consumption, increase operational efficiency, and make more sustainable use of raw materials, energy, and water during manufacturing.

This book reports on the latest numerical and experimental findings in the field of high-lift technologies.

This book highlights a comprehensive coverage of the science and technology of multi-orbit inter-satellite links.

This book discusses the emerging field of industrial neuroscience, and reports on the authors' cutting-edge findings in the evaluation of mental states, including mental workload, cognitive control and training of personnel involved either in the piloting of aircraft and helicopters, or in managing air traffic.

This book addresses emerging legal and economic issues in competition and investment in air transport, against the backdrop of the role governments and airlines should play in avoiding protectionism and encouraging innovation and creativity.

This book provides an overview of the space sector in African countries, from a legal and policy point of view, analysing how the African Union's Space Policy and Strategy (ASPS) is implemented and highlighting the various space activities in each country.

The 15th International Symposium on Superalloys (Superalloys 2024) highlights technologies for lifecycle improvement of superalloys.

This book presents the design of modular architecture flight simulators.

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

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6.

This book focuses on using and implementing Circulation Control (CC) - an active flow control method used to produce increased lift over the traditionally used systems, like flaps, slats, etc.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 10th International Seminar on Aerospace Science and Technology (ISAST 2024), held in Bali, Indonesia.

This book presents selected research papers from China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2024, held in Jinan, China, on 22-24 May 2024.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of space lidar missions, techniques, and technologies, as presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Space-Based Lidar Remote Sensing Techniques and Emerging Technologies (LIDAR), held in Milos Island, Greece, on June 18-23, 2023.

This engaging and accessible book is designed as a quick and easy way to get up to speed on all things in space technology.

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

This book presents neural partial differentiation as an estimation algorithm for extracting aerodynamic derivatives from flight data.

This book explores cutting-edge topics on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in aviation.

During the last decade, a rapid growth of knowledge in the field of re-entry and planetary entry has resulted in many significant advances useful to the student, engineer and scientist.

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened.

Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Volume 9: Electric Propulsion Development covers the proceedings of the Second Electric Propulsion Conference of the American Rocker Society, held in Berkeley, California on March 14-16, 1962.

Franz Georg Hey summarises the development and testing of a micro-Newton thrust balance, as well as the downscaling of a High Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thruster to micro-Newton thrust levels.

Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space.

A high Reynolds number flow about a lifting wing typically forms a thin boundary layer on its surface, which smoothly merges with a thin vortical wake behind it.

This book focuses on the application of classical combustion theory to ignition and flame propagation in solid-solid and gas-solid systems.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 4th ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2015).

This book consists of selected peer-reviewed papers from the 2nd International Seminar on Aeronautics and Energy (ISAE 2022) focusing on the theme to revive the aviation industry post-COVID-19 pandemic.

"e;Interplanetary Outpost"e; follows the mission architecture template of NASA's plan for Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE), which envisions sending a crew to the moon Callisto to conduct exploration and sample return activities.

The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall.

This book reports on advanced theories and methods aimed at characterizing the dynamics of non-ideal compressible fluids.

This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the fifth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book examines the mysterious and the well-studied debris in Earth's crowded neighborhood.

Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Fourth Edition, is a key text for students of aerospace engineering.

This book investigates Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with a payload capacity of one metric ton for transportation.

This book takes a reader on a tour of astronomical phenomena: from the vastness of the interstellar medium, to the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems, through to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, the final objects of the stellar graveyard.

This textbook provides a guide to the fundamental principles of acoustics in a straightforward manner using a solid foundation in mathematics and physics.

Space Science and Public Engagement: 21st Century Perspectives and Opportunities critically examines the many dimensions of public engagement with space science by exploring case studies that show a spectrum of public engagement formats, ranging from the space science community's efforts to communicate developments to the public, to citizenry attempting to engage with space science issues.

Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields.

The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary protection policy, the purpose of which is to preserve conditions for future biological and organic exploration of planets and other solar system objects and to protect Earth and its biosphere from potential extraterrestrial sources of contamination.

The book presents the select proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Modern Research in Aerospace Engineering (MRAE 2023).

There is an ongoing need to test and ensure effectiveness of personal protective equipment that soldiers use to protect themselves against chemical warfare agents.

The book provides a detailed approach to the physics, fluid dynamics, modeling, experimentation and numerical simulation of cavitation phenomena, with special emphasis on cavitation-induced instabilities and their implications on the design and operation of high performance turbopumps and hydraulic turbines.