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Space agencies are now realizing that much of what has
previously been achieved using hugely complex and costly single
platform projects-large unmanned and manned satellites (including
the present International Space Station)-can be replaced by a
number of smaller satellites networked together. The key challenge
of this approach, namely ensuring the proper formation flying of
multiple craft, is the topic of this second volume in Elsevier s
Astrodynamics Series, Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics,
control and navigation.
In this unique text, authors Alfriend et al. provide a coherent
discussion of spacecraft relative motion, both in the unperturbed
and perturbed settings, explain the main control approaches for
regulating relative satellite dynamics, using both impulsive and
continuous maneuvers, and present the main constituents required
for relative navigation. The early chapters provide a foundation
upon which later discussions are built, making this a complete,
standalone offering.
Intended for graduate students, professors and academic
researchers in the fields of aerospace and mechanical engineering,
mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, Spacecraft Formation
Flying is a technical yet accessible, forward-thinking guide to
this critical area of astrodynamics.
The first book dedicated to spacecraft formation flying, written by
leading researchers and professors in the fieldDevelops the theory
from an astrodynamical viewpoint, emphasizing modeling, control and
navigation of formation flying satellites on Earth orbitsExamples
used to illustrate the main developments, with a sample simulation
of a formation flying mission included to illustrate high fidelity
modeling, control and relative navigation"
Among the most interesting fields in research are the emerging
possibilities to interface the human brain directly with machines,
e.g. with computers and robotic interfaces. The European Space
Agency's Advanced Concept team as a multidisciplinary team from
engineering, artificial intelligence, and neural engineering has
been working on the cutting edge of exploring brain machine
interfaces for application in space as solutions to limitations
astronauts face in space, and this book for the first time presents
the state-of-the-art-cohesively.
* A pioneering book for a pioneering field
* Presents the application of cutting-edge brain machine interface
technologies and concepts to support astronauts in space
* Of great interest to space scientists, neuroscientists, and
biomedical engineers alike
In recent years scientists have investigated a series of new
methods for non-rocket space launch, which promise to revolutionize
space launches and flight. Particularly in the current political
climate new, cheaper, and more fuel efficient methods are being
investigated. Such new methods include the gas tube method, cable
accelerators, tether launch systems, space elevators, solar and
magnetic sails, circle launcher space keepers and more.
The author brings a vast amount of experience to the topic, having
worked as a engineer, designer, project director and researcher at
key institutes including NASA and the US Air Force.
Explores all the new non-rocket space launch methods, and compares
them with each other and traditional rockets.
Investigates the unifying principles of the different systems and
shows how to select the best design suited to the mission.
Author brings together technical and theoretical expertise from
both industry and academia
Written with students of aerospace or aeronautical engineering
firmly in mind, this is a practical and wide-ranging book that
draws together the various theoretical elements of aircraft design
- structures, aerodynamics, propulsion, control and others - and
guides the reader in applying them in practice. Based on a range of
detailed real-life aircraft design projects, including military
training, commercial and concept aircraft, the experienced UK and
US based authors present engineering students with an essential
toolkit and reference to support their own project work. All
aircraft projects are unique and it is impossible to provide a
template for the work involved in the design process. However, with
the knowledge of the steps in the initial design process and of
previous experience from similar projects, students will be freer
to concentrate on the innovative and analytical aspects of their
course project. The authors bring a unique combination of
perspectives and experience to this text. It reflects both British
and American academic practices in teaching aircraft design. Lloyd
Jenkinson has taught aircraft design at both Loughborough and
Southampton universities in the UK and Jim Marchman has taught both
aircraft and spacecraft design at Virginia Tech in the US.
Since the first rocket-technology experiments of the early 20th
century, space exploration has captivated the world. Recent
advances and setbacks have included the new discoveries from the
Galileo mission, the Mars Global Surveyor's revelation that water
once existed on the Red Planet, the International Space Station,
the advent of space tourism, and the devastating Space Shuttle
disasters. This one-stop guide to space exploration provides a
wealth of information for student researchers. A substantial
'Chronology of Events' and a narrative history outline the key
events and people in the progression of space research and
activity. Five topical essays--including a look at the Space
Shuttle--examine several significant issues related to the politics
and technology of space exploration from an international
perspective. These chapters elucidate several sets of documents
that give shape and substance to the larger story. Primary
documents in this volume are organized by theme and represent the
variety of materials available to anyone seeking a better
understanding of the rise of space exploration. Also included are
biographical sketches of key people associated with space flight, a
listing of the human space flight missions undertaken since 1961,
and an annotated bibliography of additional reading.
There are all kinds of cool careers in space exploration!
Astronauts are the superstars of space, but there are thousands of
other women and men behind the scenes who make space exploration
possible. This book is for girls, young women, and anyone else
interested in learning about exciting careers in space exploration.
Take a ride with Laura S Woodmansee and find out what it's like to
be a woman of space. Would you like to know what it's like to be a
space scientist searching for life beyond Earth? An engineer
designing a spacecraft to send to Mars? Or an artist who creates
beautiful space paintings and illustrations? Find out about these
careers and more. You can be an accountant, a security officer, a
pilot, a doctor, a biologist, a mission control worker, outreach
educator, a teacher, a science writer, or anything else. They are
all needed in space exploration. You don't have to be an astronaut
to work in space. You can do anything you want! Read about how you
can get involved in space exploration today. Join the club of cool
space explorers who love what they are doing and wouldn't trade
their career for a million pounds!;For the next generation of
explorers, this book is more than just career advice. It is packed
with interesting stories from women all over the planet who are
doing what they love! The CD-ROM features: Exclusive video
interviews with Mars Pathfinder Engineer Donna Shirley, Astro-Mom
Lori Garver, and Aerospace Engineer Leslie Wickman; Listen to the
music of the galaxies: an exclusive audio interview with
Astrophysicist & Celestial Musician Fiorella Terenzi; "Women in
Science: Mentors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab" (NASA video);
Brochures on various space careers (Adobe Acrobat format).
Liquid Acquisition Devices for Advanced In-Space Cryogenic
Propulsion Systems discusses the importance of reliable cryogenic
systems, a pivotal part of everything from engine propulsion to
fuel deposits. As some of the most efficient systems involve
advanced cryogenic fluid management systems that present
challenging issues, the book tackles issues such as the difficulty
in obtaining data, the lack of quality data and models, and the
complexity in trying to model these systems. The book presents
models and experimental data based on rare and hard-to-obtain
cryogenic data. Through clear descriptions of practical data and
models, readers will explore the development of robust and flexible
liquid acquisition devices (LAD) through component-level and
full-scale ground experiments, as well as analytical tools. This
book presents new and rare experimental data, as well as analytical
models, in a fundamental area to the aerospace and space-flight
communities. With this data, the reader can consider new and
improved ways to design, analyze, and build expensive flight
systems.
This book provides a guide to engineering successful and reliable
products for the NewSpace industry. By discussing both the
challenges involved in designing technical artefacts, and the
challenges of growing an organisation, the book presents a unique
approach to the topic. New Space Systems Engineering explores
numerous difficulties encountered when designing a space system
from scratch on limited budgets, non-existing processes, and great
deal of organizational fluidity and emergence. It combines
technical topics related to design, such as system requirements,
modular architectures, and system integration, with topics related
to organizational design, complexity, systems thinking, design
thinking and a model based systems engineering. Its integrated
approach mean this book will be of interest to researchers,
engineers, investors, and early-stage space companies alike. It
will help New Space founders and professionals develop their
technologies and business practices, leading to more robust
companies and engineering development.
This book offers essential information on China's human spacecraft
technologies, reviewing their evolution from theoretical and
engineering perspectives. It discusses topics such as the design of
manned spaceships, cargo spacecraft, space laboratories, space
stations and manned lunar and Mars detection spacecraft. It also
addresses various key technologies, e.g. for manned rendezvous,
docking and reentry. The book is chiefly intended for researchers,
graduate students and professionals in the fields of aerospace
engineering, control, electronics & electrical engineering, and
related areas.
The aerospace community has long recognized and repeatedly
emphasizes the importance of reliability for space systems. Despite
this, little has been published in book form on the topic.
"Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-state Failures" addresses this
gap in the literature, offering a unique focus on spacecraft
reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of system and
subsystem anomalies and failures.
The authors provide new results pertaining to spacecraft
reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of on-orbit
anomaly and failure data that will be particularly useful to
spacecraft manufacturers and designers, for example in guiding
satellite (and subsystem) test and screening programs and providing
an empirical basis for subsystem redundancy and reliability growth
plans. The authors develop nonparametric results and parametric
models of spacecraft and spacecraft subsystem reliability and
multi-state failures, quantify the relative contribution of each
subsystem to the failure of the satellites thus identifying the
subsystems that drive spacecraft unreliability, and propose
advanced stochastic modeling and analysis tools for the reliability
and survivability of spacecraft and space-based networks.
"Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-state Failures"provides new
nonparametric results pertaining to spacecraft reliability based on
extensive statistical analysis of on-orbit anomaly and failure
data;develops parametric models of spacecraft and spacecraft
subsystem reliability and multi-state failuresquantifies the
relative contribution of each subsystem to the failure of the
satellitesproposes advanced stochastic modeling and analysis tools
for the reliability and survivability of spacecraft and space-based
networks.provides a dedicated treatment of the reliability and
subsystem anomalies of communication spacecraft in geostationary
orbit.
Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Fourth Edition, is a
key text for students of aerospace engineering. While this latest
edition has been updated with new content and included sample
problems, it also retains its teach-by-example approach that
emphasizes analytical procedures, computer-implemented algorithms,
and the most comprehensive support package available, including
fully worked solutions, PPT lecture slides, and animations of
selected topics. Highly illustrated and fully supported with
downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work, this
book provides all the tools needed to fully understand the subject.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was successfully launched on
June 18, 2009 and joined an international eet of satellites
(Japan's SELENE/Kaguya, China's Chang'E, and India's Chandrayaan-1)
that have recently orbited the Moon for scienti c exploration p-
poses. LRO is the rst step to ful ll the US national space goal to
return humans to the Moon's surface, which is a primary objective
of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission - rectorate (ESMD).
TheinitialLROmissionphasehasaone-yeardurationfullyfundedunder ESMD
support. LRO is expected to have an extended phase of operations
for at least two additional years to undertake further lunar
science measurements that are directly linked to objectives
outlined in the National Academy of Science's report on the Scienti
c Context for Exploration of the Moon (SCEM). All data from LRO
will be deposited in the Planetary Data System (PDS) archive so as
to be usable for both exploration and science by the widest
possible community. A NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO)
solicited proposals for LRO instruments with associated exploration
measurement investigations. A rigorous evaluation process - volving
scienti c peer review, in combination with technical, cost and
management risk assessments, recommended six instruments for LRO
development and deployment. The competitively selected instruments
are: Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Rad- tion (CRaTER),
Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), Lyman-Alpha Mapping
Project (LAMP), Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), Lunar
Orbiter Laser - timeter (LOLA), and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Camera (LROC).
This book discusses autonomous spacecraft navigation based on X-ray
pulsars, analyzing how to process X-ray pulsar signals, how to
simulate them, and how to estimate the pulse's time of arrival
based on epoch folding. In turn, the book presents a range of X-ray
pulsar-based spacecraft positioning/time-keeping/attitude
determination methods. It also describes the error transmission
mechanism of the X-ray pulsar-based navigation system and its
corresponding compensation methods. Further, the book introduces
readers to navigation based on multiple measurement information
fusion, such as X-ray pulsar/traditional celestial body integrated
navigation and X-ray pulsar/INS integrated navigation. As such, it
offers readers extensive information on both the theory and
applications of X-ray pulsar-based navigation, and reflects the
latest developments in China and abroad.
This book provides systematic descriptions of design methods,
typical techniques, and validation methods for lunar soft landers,
covering their environmental design, system design, sub-system
design, assembly, testing and ground test validation based on the
Chang'e-3 mission. Offering readers a comprehensive, systematic and
in-depth introduction to the technologies used in China's lunar
soft landers, it presents detailed information on the design
process for Chang'e-3, including methods and techniques that will
be invaluable in future extraterrestrial soft lander design. As
such, the book offers a unique reference guide for all researchers
and professionals working on deep-space missions around the globe.
This book presents fundamental theories, design and testing
methodologies, and engineering applications concerning spacecraft
thermal control systems, helping readers gain a comprehensive
understanding of spacecraft thermal control systems and
technologies. With abundant design methods, advanced technologies
and typical applications to help them grasp the basic concepts and
principles of engineering applications, it is mainly intended for
engineering and technical staff engaged in spacecraft thermal
control areas. The book discusses the thermal environments commonly
used for space flight missions, rules and regulations for system
design, thermal analysis and simulation, and thermal testing
methods, as well as the design and validation of the thermal
control systems for Chinese spacecraft, such as the Shenzhou
spacecraft and Chang'e Lunar Lander and Rover. It also introduces
them to communication and remote sensing satellites and presents
advanced thermal control technologies developed in recent years,
including heat transfer, heat insulation, heating, refrigeration
and thermal sensor technologies. Addressing the design and
validation of thermal control systems for various types of Chinese
spacecraft, the book offers a valuable theoretical and practical
reference guide for researchers and engineers alike.
Offers an accessible text and reference (a cosmic-ray manual) for
graduate students entering the field and high-energy
astrophysicists will find this an accessible cosmic-ray manual Easy
to read for the general astronomer, the first part describes the
standard model of cosmic rays based on our understanding of modern
particle physics. Presents the acceleration scenario in some detail
in supernovae explosions as well as in the passage of cosmic rays
through the Galaxy. Compares experimental data in the atmosphere as
well as underground are compared with theoretical models
This book systematically presents the concept, history,
implementation, theory system and basic methods of pulsar and space
flight, illustrating the characteristics of pulsars. It also
describes the classification of spacecraft navigation systems and
the autonomous navigation technologies, as well as X-ray
pulsar-based navigation systems (XPNAV) and discusses future
navigation satellite systems in detail.
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