Aerospace and aviation technology

The technology of the next few decades could possibly allow us to explore with robotic probes the closest stars outside our Solar System, and maybe even observe some of the recently discovered planets circling these stars.

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

Methyl bromide is gaseous pesticide used to fumigate soil, crops, commodity warehouses, and commodity-shipping facilities.

Advanced Aerospace Applications, Volume 1.

This book gives a concise and comprehensive overview of non-cooperative target tracking, fusion and control.

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books - to be published annually - will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity's knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed.

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in Aerospace Structures provides readers with the spectacular progress that has taken place over the last twenty years with respect to the area of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).

Seit Jahrtausenden zieht der Mond die Blicke und Träume der Menschheit auf sich.

This book discusses physical and mathematical models, numerical methods, computational algorithms and software complexes, which allow high-precision mathematical modeling in fluid, gas, and plasma mechanics; general mechanics; deformable solid mechanics; and strength, destruction and safety of structures.

This book highlights the systematic investigation into the calculation of Hansen coefficients and their derivatives in satellite orbital dynamics.

Since the last joint IAU and COSPAR Colloquium in Gainesville in 1995, there have been dramatic changes in the field resulting from in-situ space experiments, Earth orbiting satellites and ground based observations.

This book presents the lecture notes of the 1st Summer School on Methods and Tools for the Design of Digital Systems, 2015, held in Bremen, Germany.

The monograph explores the safety of unmanned flight vehicles via the corresponding fault-tolerant control design methods.

This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers from the 2023 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT2023).

The book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation.

History and Evolution of Aircraft reviews the history of aviation from early history to the present day, including the evolution milestones of military aircraft, civil aircraft, helicopters, drones, balloons, airships, and their engines.

Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the seventh volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights?

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been used in military operations for more than 60 years, with torpedoes, cruise missiles, satellites, and target drones being early examples.

This first account of commercial spaceflight's most successful venture describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and made it the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.

This volume explains the dramatic effect of cross-correlations in forming the structural response of aircraft in turbulent excitation, ships in rough seas, cars on irregular roads, and other dynamic regimes.

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 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 book explains on what basis a nation can claim the status of space power, what are the criteria differentiating a space power from "e;lesser"e; space actors, and how their spacepower can be empirically measured and assessed.

This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory.

The book includes the research papers presented in the final conference of the EU funded SARISTU (Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures) project, held at Moscow, Russia between 19-21 of May 2015.

A fascinating account of the life of one of the century's great eccentrics - the brilliant Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

This book gathers the best articles presented by researchers and industrial experts at the International Conference on "e;Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)"e;.

The book addresses computational methods for solving the problem of vibration, response, loads and stability of a helicopter rotor blade modeled as a rotating beam with flap or out-of-plane bending.

Acquire the Life-Saving Skills Needed to Eliminate or Reduce Most Helicopter Accidents A vital resource for pilots, helicopter enthusiasts, and aircraft maintenance technicians, Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots analyzes all aspects of helicopter accidents, including flight basics, engineering, meteorology, flight training, and human factors.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been used in military operations for more than 60 years, with torpedoes, cruise missiles, satellites, and target drones being early examples.

This book explores a technology that transformed airplanes into safe, practical tools of war and a means of transportation during the first half of the twentieth century.

This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the - lestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership.

This current, comprehensive book provides an updated treatment of molecular gas dynamics topics and the DSMC method for aerospace engineers.

The objective of this book is to present a number of related chapters on the subject of gender issues in the workplace of the aviation industry.

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Written by a former Aerodynamics Officer on the space shuttle program, this book provides a complete overview of the "e;new"e; U.

Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istv n Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968.

This book addresses the emerging needs of the aerospace industry by discussing recent developments and future trends of aeronautic materials.

Tooling for Composite Aerospace Structures: Manufacturing and Applications offers a comprehensive discussion on the design, analysis, manufacturing and operation of tooling that is used in the lamination of composite materials and assembly.

1943 saw the tide of war change fully in the Allies' favour.

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.

Analytical Solutions for Extremal Space Trajectories presents an overall treatment of the general optimal control problem, in particular, the Mayer's variational problem, with necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality.

Now in its Seventh Edition, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a proven textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transportation management.

The granting of offsets to promote exports of major aircraft systems has been a source of significant controversy.

The key to opening the use of space to private enterprise and to broader public uses lies in reducing the cost of the transportation to space.

George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955.

In the years between the historic first moonlanding by Apollo 11 on July 20,1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong receivedhundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world,congratulating him, praising him, requesting pictures and autographs, andasking him what must have seemed to him to be limitless and occasionallyintrusive questions.