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A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.

NASA maintains an active interest in the environmental conditions associated with living and working in spacecraft and identifying hazards that might adversely affect the health and well-being of crew members.

This title presents a uniquely human perspective on the quest to explore space and to understand the universe through the lens of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be the reference publication analysingspace policy developments.

This 1997 book explains basic theory of spacecraft dynamics and control and the practical aspects of controlling a satellite.

This book offers readers essential insights into system design for deep space probes and describes key aspects such as system design, orbit design, telecommunication, GNC, thermal control, propulsion, aerobraking and scientific payload.

This book offers essential information on China's human spacecraft technologies, reviewing their evolution from theoretical and engineering perspectives.

Shortly before embarking on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe, Amelia Earhart confided to a friend, ';I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip around the world is it.

The solutions to technical challenges posed by flight and space exploration tend to be multidimensional, multifunctional, and increasingly focused on the interaction of systems and their environment.

This book helps to solve the problems and challenges of satellite sensing in the current environment of increasing communications bandwidths and multiplicity of electromagnetic signals.

This book presents papers surrounding the extensive discussions that took place from the 'Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering' workshop held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in 2015.

Aircraft Performance: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition introduces flight performance analysis techniques of fixed-wing air vehicles, particularly heavier-than-aircraft.

The book focuses on photonic devices and systems for space applications and critically reviews the most promising research advances in the field of photonic technologies, which may have a significant impact on the performance of space systems.

Previous studies conducted within the aviation industry have examined a multitude of crucial aspects such as policy, airline service quality, and revenue management.

Explains the methods that rocket scientists use-expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life.

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Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting, Volume 9: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the ninth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The book provides an introduction to the mechanics of composite materials, written for graduate students and practitioners in industry.

The International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems 2011 was organized by the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems and locally by the Center for Bio-Micro Robotics Research at Chiba University, Japan.

July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn't caved in to Hitler's Third Reich.

During the 1960s - in the midst of its retreat from empire - the British government had to grapple with complex political and military problems in order to find a strategic defence policy that was both credible and affordable.

This book contains extensive data about tandem wing aircraft.

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

Inspired by the community behaviors of animals and humans, cooperative control has been intensively studied by numerous researchers in recent years.

This textbook covers the fundamental concepts of structural analysis applied to vehicular structures such as aircraft, automobiles, ships and spacecraft.

Air Traffic Management: Economics Regulation and Governance provides the latest insights on approaches and issues surrounding the economic regulation and governance of air traffic management (ATM).

This book focuses on applications of micro CT, CBCT and CT in medicine and engineering, comprehensively explaining the basic principles of these techniques in detail, and describing their increasing use in the imaging field.

The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest disasters in American history, spurring the most expensive airline investigation ever undertaken by the U.

Infrared Thermography in the Evaluation of Aerospace Composite Materials: Infrared Thermography to Composites provides an update on infrared thermography, a fast and reliable method for non-destructive evaluation of composite materials used in the aerospace field.

Comprehensively covers emerging aerospace technologies Advanced UAV aerodynamics, flight stability and control: Novel concepts, theory and applications presents emerging aerospace technologies in the rapidly growing field of unmanned aircraft engineering.

Now in its ninth edition, Air Transportation: A Global Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a well-proven, accessible textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transport management.

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.

Aviation remains one of the most active and challenging domains for human factors and applied psychology.

EmDrive provides a comprehensive description of the theoretical background of this emerging technology.

This book considers two popular topics: fault detection and isolation (FDI) and flight data estimation using flush air data sensing (FADS) systems.

Although the overall appearance of modern airliners has not changed a lot since the introduction of jetliners in the 1950s, their safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness have improved considerably.

This book contains thirty-five selected papers presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems (EUROGEN 2017).

This book presents select peer reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air Systems (DELTAs 2022) which was held at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

Of the many futuristic military aircraft concepts created in the 1950s the North American XB-70 still stands out as the most awe-inspiring.

The book presents a synopsis of the main results achieved during the 3 year EU-project "e;Advanced Inflight Measurement Techniques (AIM)"e; which applied advanced image based measurement techniques to industrial flight testing.

Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight.

In the 25th Century, the effects of overpopulation and global warming on Earth have led to the formation of human colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System, yet the limited number of viable places forces humanity to look to the stars.

As the airline industry struggles to extricate itself from its latest crisis, the time has come to examine the fundamentals of airline business strategy in a more innovative way and find answers to the questions, "e;What went wrong?

This book describes the unsteady phenomena needed to understand supersonic combustion.

Packed with never-before-seen photos, plans and meticulous new digital artwork, this is the first history of the USAAF's futuristic World War II prototype interceptor, the XP-67 "e;Moonbat"e;.