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India in space : between utility and geopolitics /

Marco Aliberti, Author | [S.l.] : SpringerWienNewYork | Studies in space policy | 2018

This book presents the renewing strategic vision and progressive diversification of the Indian space programme at the nexus socio-economic development, commerce and geopolitics. It disentangles India´s evolving rationales for engaging in space [...]

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India in space : between utility and geopolitics /

Marco Aliberti, Author | [S.l.] : SpringerWienNewYork | Studies in space policy | 2018

This book presents the renewing strategic vision and progressive diversification of the Indian space programme at the nexus socio-economic development, commerce and geopolitics. It disentangles India´s evolving rationales for engaging in space [...]

Low earth orbit satellite design

George Sebestyen, Author ; Steve Fujikawa, Author ; Nicholas Galassi, Author ; Alex Chuchra, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space technology library | 2018

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth's orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself. This book offers an in-depth guide to engineers and professionals seeking to understand[...]

Low earth orbit satellite design

George Sebestyen, Author ; Steve Fujikawa, Author ; Nicholas Galassi, Author ; Alex Chuchra, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space technology library | 2018

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth's orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself. This book offers an in-depth guide to engineers and professionals seeking to understand[...]

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Aerospace project management handbook

Ann Garrison M. Darrin, Editor ; Patrick A. Stadter, Author | Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press | 2017

The Aerospace Project Management Handbook focuses on space systems, exploring intricacies rarely seen in land-based projects. These range from additional compliance requirements from Earned Value Management requirements and regulations (ESA, NAS[...]

Flexible spacecraft dynamics, control and guidance : technologies by Giovanni Campolo

Leonardo Mazzini, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer aerospace technology, ISSN 1869-1730 | 2016

This book is an up-to-date compendium on spacecraft attitude and orbit control (AOC) that offers a systematic and complete treatment of the subject with the aim of imparting the theoretical and practical knowledge that is required by designers,[...]

Theory of aerospace propulsion

Pascale M. Sforza, Author | [S.l.] : Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann | Elsevier aerospace engineering series | 2016

Theory of Aerospace Propulsion, Second Edition, teaches engineering students how to utilize the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics to analyze aircraft engines, understand the common gas turbine aircraft propulsion syste[...]

Damage growth in aerospace composites

Aniello Riccio, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | Springer aerospace technology, ISSN 1869-1730 | 2015

Optimal control with aerospace applications

James M. Longuski, Author ; José J. Guzman, Author ; John E. Prussing, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space technology library | 2014

Optimal control theory has become such an important field in aerospace engineering that no graduate student or practicing engineer can afford to be without a working knowledge of it. This is the first book that begins from scratch to teach the[...]

Advances in intelligent and autonomous aerospace systems

John Valasek, Editor | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Progress in astronautics and aeronautics | 2012

This book seeks to provide both the aerospace researcher and the practicing aerospace engineer with an exposition on the latest innovative methods and approaches that focus on intelligent and autonomus aerospace systems.

Introduction to space systems : design and synthesis

Miguel R. Aguirre, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space technology library | 2012

The book concentrates on understanding the interaction between all the forces, both technical and nontechnical, which influence the definition of a space system. This book refers to the entire system: space and ground segments, mission objective[...]

Morphing aerospace vehicles and structures

John Valasek, Editor ; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Editor | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2012

This book is a synthesis of the relevant disciplines and applications involved in the morphing of fixed wing flight vehicles. Most chapters are both tutorial and research oriented in nature, covering elementary concepts through advanced and in [...]

Aerospace engineering on the back of an envelope

Irwin E. Alber | New York, NY : Springer | 2011

This book offers engineers a series of step-by-step case study examples in the use of "back-to-the-envelope" estimation methods. The book shows how a rapid first-cut at an engineering problem can be carried out using the "quick-fire" approach b[...]

Architecture for astronauts : an activity based approach

Sandra Hauplik-Meusburger, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2011

Architecture for astronauts : an activity based approach

Sandra Hauplik-Meusburger, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2011

Living and working in extra-terrestrial habitats means being potentially vulnerable to very harsh environmental, social, and psychological conditions. With the stringent technical specifications for launch vehicles and transport into space, a v[...]

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Coming home : reentry and recovery from space

Roger D. Launius, Author ; Dennis R. Jenkins, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2011

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Test facility for a cryogenic rocket engine : an outline with down-to-earth and up-to-space remarks

Wolfgang Kitsche | New York, NY : Springer | Springer aerospace technology, ISSN 1869-1730 | 2011

The book presents the operational aspects of the rocket engine on a test facility.

Floating to space : the airship to orbit program

John M. Powell | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2008

interactive aerospace engineering and design

Dava Newman | New York : McGraw-Hill | McGraw-Hill series in aeronautical and aerospace engineering | 2002

Elements of space technology for aerospace engineers

Rudolf X. Meyer | London : Academic Press | 1999

This book is written to give aerospace professionals and students a thorough understanding of the aerospace aspects of space programs. The book focuses on deriving results from the primary physics and engineering fundamentals necessary to unders[...]

DASIA'97, data systems in aerospace : [held in] Sevilla, Spain 26-29 May 1997

[S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA SP | 1997

DASIA'96, data systems in aerospace : [held in] Rome, Italy, 20-23 May 1996

[S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA WPP | 1996

Aerospace century XXI : space sciences, applications, and commercial developments : proceedings of the 33rd annual AAS international conference, Boulder, Colorado, October 26-29, 1986

Jean N. Koster, Editor ; George W. Morgenthaler, Editor | [S.l.] : Univelt | Advances in the astronautical sciences | 1987