Space science

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

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This book opens with a discussion of the vorticity-dynamic formulation of the low Mach number viscous flow problem.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in the domain of optimal guidance, exploring the characteristics of various optimal guidance algorithms and their pros and cons.

In Robotic Exploration of the Solar System, Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide a comprehensive account of the design and management of deep-space missions, the spacecraft involved - some flown, others not - their instruments, and their scientific results.

Optical Payloads for Space Missions is a comprehensive collection of optical spacecraft payloads with contributions by leading international rocket-scientists and instrument builders.

In Energiya-Buran: the Soviet Space Shuttle, the authors describe the long development path of the Soviet space shuttle system, consisting of the Energiya rocket and the Buran orbiter.

Bio-inspired Computation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles focuses on the aspects of path planning, formation control, heterogeneous cooperative control and vision-based surveillance and navigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from the perspective of bio-inspired computation.

Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems provides a comprehensive treatment of helicopter systems, ranging from related nonlinear flight dynamic modeling and stability analysis to advanced control design for single helicopter systems, and also covers issues related to the coordination and formation control of multiple helicopter systems to achieve high performance tasks.

Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars.

This book establishes an important mathematical connection between cooperative control problems and network optimization problems.

This proceedings highlights the applications of the newly introduced physical quantity Liutex in hydrodynamics and aerodynamics.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2019), held in Toronto, Canada, on July 30-August 1, 2019, and jointly organized by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

NASA's MESSENGER mission, launched on 3 August, 2004 is the seventh mission in the Discovery series.

The one thing for which this century will be remembered 500 years from now was: This was the century when we began the exploration of space.

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

Extending the spatial and temporal boundaries of human space flight is an important goal for the nation and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan's space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago.

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This textbook covers fundamentals of rocket propulsion such as history, classification, qualitative design, quantitative design of internal ballistics and rocket vehicle optimization.

This SpringerBrief explores the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars, taking into consideration the national and international perspectives at play.

A Short History of Nearly EverythingmeetsAstrophysics for People in a Hurryin this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have helped not only build our planet but steered the evolution of life and human culture.

The goal of this book is to serve both as a practical technical reference and a resource for gaining a fuller understanding of the state of the art of spacecraft momentum control systems, specifically looking at control moment gyroscopes (CMGs).

TERRAFORMING MARS This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation.

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic concepts of relativistic cosmology and the standard big bang model of cosmology, along with an introduction to quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.

This book focuses on the performance and application of fluidic nozzle throats for solid rocket motors, discussing their flow details and characterization performance, as well as the influence of the particle phase on their performance.

The safety of the nation's drinking water must be maintained to ensure the health of the public.

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

Fatigue occurs under cyclic loading and can significantly degrade the operational capability and safety of metallic aircraft components and structures.

This book provides a systematical and comprehensive description of some facets of modeling, designing, analyzing and exploring the control allocation and fault-tolerant control problems for over-actuated spacecraft attitude control system under actuator failures, system uncertainties and disturbances.

In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space.

This book features the latest theoretical results and techniques in the field of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of vehicles and aircrafts.

This select volume of historical documents is organized chronologically, spanning from 1914 to the present.

This textbook provides readers with a good working knowledge of adaptive control theory through applications.

This is the unique story of observing a total solar eclipse for no less than 74 consecutive minutes.

This is the proceedings of the ERCOFTAC Workshop on Progress in Wall Turbulence: Understanding and Modelling, that was held in Lille, France from June 18 to 20, 2014.

"e;Sky Alert!

This book is one of the first technical overviews of autonomous vehicles written for a general computing and engineering audience.

Der Mond – unser ständiger Begleiter und doch ein Ort voller Geheimnisse und Potenziale.

This book presents firsthand insights into strategies and approaches for the commercial aerospace supply chain in response to the numerous changes that airlines, aircraft OEMs and their suppliers have experienced over the past few decades.

This book describes systematically telemetry theory and methods for aircraft in flight test.

In January 2004 NASA was given a new policy direction known as the Vision for Space Exploration.

This textbook covers fundamentals of rocket propulsion such as history, classification, qualitative design, quantitative design of internal ballistics and rocket vehicle optimization.