This text is drawn from the author's years of experience in spacecraft design culminating in his leadership of the Magellan Venus orbiter spacecraft design from concept through launch. The work also benefits from his years of teaching spacecraft design at Colorado University and for AIAA as a home study short course. The work presents a broad view of the complete spacecraft. The objective is to explain the thought and analysis that goes into the creation of a spacecraft with simplicity and with enough worked examples so that the reader can be self-taught if necessary.
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The first spacecraft was a publicity stunt. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
propellant inventory, vernal equinox vector, hipropellant systems, arrival hyperbola, usable propellant, finite burn losses, random vibration loads, encounter hyperbola, spacecraft horizon, time since periapsis, transfer ellipse, departure hyperbola, monopropellant system, maximum eclipse period, pulsing performance, launch vehicle adapter, periapsis radius, spacecraft loads, apoapsis radius, hyperbolic excess velocity, thruster pair, bipropellant systems, spacecraft axes, solar torque, shunt radiator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lockheed Martin, Viking Orbiter, Air Force, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst, Mars Global Surveyor, Government Printing Office, Mars Observer, Martin Marietta, The Netherlands, Goddard Space Flight Center, Kluwer Academic, Reed Solomon, Van Allen, White Sands, Case Study, Education Series, Honeywell International, Jet Propulsion Lah, The Molniya, Voltage Fig, Cape Canaveral, Eagle Pitcher Industries, Long March New!
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propellant inventory, vernal equinox vector, hipropellant systems, arrival hyperbola, usable propellant, finite burn losses, random vibration loads, encounter hyperbola, spacecraft horizon, time since periapsis, transfer ellipse, departure hyperbola, monopropellant system, maximum eclipse period, pulsing performance, launch vehicle adapter, periapsis radius, spacecraft loads, apoapsis radius, hyperbolic excess velocity, thruster pair, bipropellant systems, spacecraft axes, solar torque, shunt radiator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lockheed Martin, Viking Orbiter, Air Force, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst, Mars Global Surveyor, Government Printing Office, Mars Observer, Martin Marietta, The Netherlands, Goddard Space Flight Center, Kluwer Academic, Reed Solomon, Van Allen, White Sands, Case Study, Education Series, Honeywell International, Jet Propulsion Lah, The Molniya, Voltage Fig, Cape Canaveral, Eagle Pitcher Industries, Long March New!
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- Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition (AIAA Education) by Michael D. Griffin on page 147, page 311, and Back Matter
- Spacecraft Propulsion (Dias y Dias de Poesia) by C. Brown in Front Matter, page 249, and Back Matter
- Spacecraft Mission Design, Second Edition (AIAA Education) by Charles D. Brown in Front Matter, page 249, and Back Matter
- Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics: An Account of First Principles in the Fluid Mechanics and Flight Dynamics of the Single Rotor Helicopter (Aiaa Education Series) by J. Seddon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Space Mission Analysis and Design (Space Technology Library) by Wiley J. Larson on page 147, and page 311
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- Performance, Stability, Dynamics, and Control of Airplanes, Second Edition (AIAA Education) by B. Pamadi in Back Matter
- Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics: Performance, Static Stability, Dynamic Stability, and Classical Feedback Control (Aiaa Education Series) by Thomas R. Yechout in Back Matter
- Applied Mathematics in Integrated Navigation Systems (AIAA Education Series) by Robert M. Rogers in Back Matter
- Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition (AIAA Education) by Michael D. Griffin in Back Matter
- Flight Testing of Fixed-Wing Aircraft (AIAA Education) by Ralph D. Kimberlin in Back Matter
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