Space science

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.

This book gathers contributions addressing issues related to the analysis of composite structures, whose most relevant common thread is augmented numerical efficiency, which is more accurate for given computational costs than existing methods and methodologies.

Robust and Fault-Tolerant Control proposes novel automatic control strategies for nonlinear systems developed by means of artificial neural networks and pays special attention to robust and fault-tolerant approaches.

This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics.

This book includes a selection of 30 reviewed and enhanced manuscripts published during the 15th SpaceOps Conference held in May 2018 in Marseille, France.

This book serves as an introduction to cryocooler technology and describes the principle applications of cryocoolers across a broad range of fields.

This book presents advanced case studies that address a range of important issues arising in space engineering.

This book provides a detailed insight into how space and its applications are embedded, and can be further embedded, into African society in support of the SDGs, while taking into account the specific features, needs, and diversity of that society.

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.

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 book is about the American moon-landings - and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings.

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

This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics.

Japan has a rich history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

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

This report describes recent trouble-shooting results in aircraft engineering concerning a self-induced fault mechanism of a hydraulic servo-valve.

Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon.

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.

This contributed volume addresses the future development of space law in light of our ever-growing space activities, the multiplicity of new space actors and the challenges posed by novel space technologies.

This innovative monograph explores a new mathematical formalism in higher-order temporal logic for proving properties about the behavior of systems.

This volume of the series Space Life Sciences provides insights into the latest findings of gravity research and the effect of gravity on biological systems, specifically on a cellular and molecular level.

Japan has a rich history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

Aviation noise remains the primary hindrance to expansion of airport and airspace capacity in the United States.

This book provides a broad overview of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of the Koopman operator theory and control theory.

Fields is the last link to the other five books, it shows how the Dust in Heaven follows the macroscopic rules to make the Black Hole Fields, the Galaxy Fields, the Star Fields, and the Planetary and Moon Fields.

Robust and Fault-Tolerant Control proposes novel automatic control strategies for nonlinear systems developed by means of artificial neural networks and pays special attention to robust and fault-tolerant approaches.

What is in the sky above you?

Why did Professor Hawking start to warn the threat of aliens?

In this book, Ryuho Okawa, the author and founder of Happy Science University, shares his vision for Happy Science University, a new type of university that has no equivalent anywhere in the world.

Spacecraft Power Technologies is the first comprehensive text devoted to the technologies critical to the development of spacecraft electrical power systems.

This invaluable book provides an introduction to space science.

A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO).

A complete history of human endeavors in space, this book also moves beyond the traditional topics of human spaceflight, space technology, and space science to include political, social, cultural, and economic issues, and also commercial, civilian, and military applications.

This book presents the first comprehensive exploration of the state of this well studied and thus unsolved mystery of the value of the Hubble constant.

This book, a collaborative endeavour by experts from various disciplines, meticulously investigates the increasing reliance on drones in conflicts across Africa, delving into their geopolitical, tactical, and ethical ramifications.

'Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm - all you need to travel the cosmos' CHRIS LINTOTT 'A lot of astrophysics is packed into this neat little book .

A lucid, unexpected look at how the drone imports its bloodied legacy into contemporary art and everyday life.

Why was the mission to the Moon named after the God of the Sun, and not after a Moon Goddess or God?

Did you know your irises are lying to you and all human eyes are actually brown?

From the award-winning, bestselling German science author Stefan Klein An original way into the most thought-provoking scientific theories and ideas, On The Edge of Infinity is the perfect read for those curious about the workings of the universe.

'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.

Many societies have imagined going to live in space.

A Vertical Empire describes the work in rocketry and space research carried out in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s.

A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years.

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

What happens when you vomit during a space walk?

President Donald Trump signed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Transition Authorization Act of 2017, the first comprehensive NASA authorization act passed in seven years by Congress, authorizing $19.

Who has ever dreamed of becoming an Astronaut?