Space

This book provides readers with solutions to real-world problems associated with global navigation satellite systems, inertial navigation, and integration. It presents readers with numerous detailed examples and practice problems, including GNSS-aided INS, modeling of gyros and accelerometers, and SBAS and GBAS.

An in-depth guide for engineers and professionals seeking to understand the technologies behind Low Earth Orbit satellites. With access to special spreadsheets that provide the key equations and relationships needed for mastering spacecraft design, this book gives space engineers and professionals the tools and resources they need to prepare their own LEO satellite designs.

This online resource provides the opportunity to obtain best practices from across NASA and bridge the information to the established NASA systems engineering processes and to communicate principles of good practice as well as alternative approaches rather than specify a particular way to accomplish a task.

This text offers you a current and comprehensive understanding of satellite navigation, inertial navigation, terrestrial radio navigation, dead reckoning, and environmental feature matching. It provides both an introduction to navigation systems and an in-depth treatment of INS/GNSS and multisensor integration.

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. This book is a valuable resource for practitioners in a wide spectrum of disciplines, including system and subsystem engineers, spacecraft operators and equipment designers, and scientists.

Providing a comprehensive treatment of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), this reference offers both a quick overview of GNSS essentials and an in-depth treatment of advanced topics exploring all the latest advances in technology, applications, and systems.

A comprehensive collection of the most commonly used engineering data specifically related to aerospace design. Developed by aerospace professionals, this book is a reliable source of information for aerospace students and professionals alike.

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight. It is suitable for graduate or undergraduate courses in spaceflight, as well as for space industry professionals. Author Ulrich Walter is a former crew member of the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission and a full professor of astronautics at the Technical University of Munich.

This book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems. It comprehensively discusses how to match near-term and far-term aerospace vehicles to missions.

This book discusses relevant planetary environments to rover missions, stressing the Moon and Mars. Includes a brief survey of previous rover missions and comprehensively covers autonomous navigation, path planning and multi-rover formations on other planets. It also presents a special case study on the exploration of Europa.

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation. Written by a former member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) navigation team, it delves into the mathematics behind modern digital navigation programs, as well as the numerous technological resources used by JPL as a key player in the field.

Provides a uniform and systematic way of approaching space engineering control problems from the standpoint of model-based control, using state-space equations as the key paradigm for simulation, design and implementation. It begins with an extensive introduction to attitude geometry and algebra and ends with the core themes: state-space dynamics and Embedded Model Control.

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. This book is a valuable resource for practitioners in a wide spectrum of disciplines, including system and subsystem engineers, spacecraft operators and equipment designers, and scientists.

Thermal control systems are an essential element of spacecraft design, ensuring that all parts of the spacecraft remain within acceptable temperature ranges at all times. This book describes the fundamentals of thermal control design and reviews current thermal control technologies.

This book is aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate engineers who wish to obtain an understanding of the physics of the space environment and the engineering aspects of the effects of the space environment on space systems.

Filled with illustrated concepts and real-world examples drawn from the space industry, this concise yet comprehensive book on space flight dynamics addresses all phases of a space mission: getting to space (launch trajectories), satellite motion in space (orbital motion, orbit transfers, attitude dynamics), and returning from space (entry flight mechanics).

A one-stop Desk Reference, for engineers involved in all aspects of aerospace; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field.

This book has been compiled by an outstanding group of aerospace engineering specialists from all over the world, who've brought together the best of their knowledge and experience in this book. It explores different approaches, conceptual aspects and technical advancement in the field of aerospace engineering.

Intended for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in the field of aeronautical/aerospace engineering, the Aerospace Engineering Pocket Reference is a concise, portable, go-to guide covering the entire range of information on the aerospace industry.

This reference defines the principle and most commonly used terms found in engineering documents and drawings across multiple disciplines and explains them in plain, unambiguous English. Ideal for students, professional engineers, industrial personnel, managers and anyone else who requires a solid understanding of the language of engineers.

A high quality, carefully coordinated reference work, with coverage ranging from core disciplines such as electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering and physics, to advanced materials, digital technology and environmental science, all of which have an ever-increasing, interactive role in modern air and spacecraft design.

Offers a unique and comprehensive treatise of everything one needs to know about unmanned aircrafts, from conception to operation, from technologies to business activities, users, OEMs, reference sources, conferences, publications, professional societies, etc.

A thorough overview of space technology, ranging from launch systems, structures, power, thermal, communications, propulsion, and software, to entry, descent and landing, ground segment, robotics, and data systems, to technology and project management.

A complete, reference for aeronautical and astronautical engineers. Includes insightful, practical guidance on technologies from aerodynamics and design of manned and unmanned air vehicles to spacecraft development and interplanetary travel.