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Spacecraft operations

Thomas Uhlig, Editor ; Florian Sellmaier, Editor ; Michael Schmidhuber, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | 2015

This text describes the basic concepts of spaceflight operations, for both, human and unmanned missions. The basic subsystems of a space vehicle are explained in dedicated chapters, the relationship of spacecraft design and the very unique spac[...]

How Columbus learnt to fly : glimpses of a unique space mission

Thomas Uhlig, Author ; Alexander Nitsch, Author ; Joachim Kehr, Author | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA SP | 2013

This book describes the 14-day 1E Mission in which the European Columbus module was delivered to the International Space Station by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The authors’ direct involvement as flight directors and flight operations engineer[...]