This authoritative text provides both suitable materials for senior-level courses in aerospace engineering and a useful reference for the practicing aerospace engineer. The text starts with an overall description of the basic mission considerations for spacecraft design, including space environment, astrodynamics, and atmospheric reentry. Then the various subsystems are discussed, and in each case, both the theoretical background and the current engineering practice are fully explained. The book provides the space systems engineer the tools to evaluate the overall impact of candidate design concepts on the various component subsystems and the integrated system leading to the final design selection.
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This review is from: Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition (AIAA Education) (Hardcover)
I used this book in a space vehicle design class. If you intend to use this text to gain a broad understanding of the basic design considerations for space vehicles, I believe you will be satisfied. If, however, you would like to go into depth regarding rocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, structural/vibration analysis, reentry, etc. look for a text which is devoted to those topics. This text does cover such topics as well as others but is lacking in detail. There are some good examples throughout each chapter and problems at the end of each chapter.
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To an engineering reader, the book gives some appreciation of why it is so expensive in money and time to build a new spacecraft. The text gives a systems-level view of the different components such a craft is likely to need. A propulsion system. Attitude control. Navigation. Communications. All of these must work for the craft to be viable.
The chapters go into the numerous constraints often encountered. Mass is the most critical. Very costly to launch these spacecrafts. And the lifting capacity of whatever launch vehicle is chosen can be one of the major constraints. Power for the various systems is minimal. Perhaps solar panels can be used. Or a radio isotope thermal generator. But solar panels aren't typically viable for missions to the outer solar system. Whatever is chosen, you have only a trickle of power to work with. Then how to communicate with Earth? The gain on the craft's antenna for transmission and reception is limited. Amazing that any spacecrafts are successful.
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In this book we attempt to treat the major engineering specialty areas involved in space vehicle and mission design from the viewpoint of the systems engineer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
attitude jitter, interface altitude, ballistic entry, gliding entry, departure planet, given sample function, average discharge voltage, stagnation point heating, trajectory designer, hyperbolic passage, periapsis radius, spacecraft axes, equilibrium glide, space vehicle design, skip entry, spacecraft power system, spinning portion, abort system, control moment gyros, planetary landers, standard atmosphere model, patched conics, spacecraft body, injection accuracy, altitude circular orbit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, International Space Station, Cape Canaveral, Journal of Guidance, Lockheed Martin, United States, Hubble Space Telescope, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Courtesy Orbital Sciences Corporation, Van Allen, Courtesy Arianespace, Courtesy Boeing Company, Delta Launch Services, Courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Department of Defense, Common Core, Government Printing Office, Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, Russian Mir, Separated Spacecraft Mass, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Aerospace Corp, Ann Arbor, Applied Optimal Estimation, Dissociated Air New!
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In this book we attempt to treat the major engineering specialty areas involved in space vehicle and mission design from the viewpoint of the systems engineer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
attitude jitter, interface altitude, ballistic entry, gliding entry, departure planet, given sample function, average discharge voltage, stagnation point heating, trajectory designer, hyperbolic passage, periapsis radius, spacecraft axes, equilibrium glide, space vehicle design, skip entry, spacecraft power system, spinning portion, abort system, control moment gyros, planetary landers, standard atmosphere model, patched conics, spacecraft body, injection accuracy, altitude circular orbit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, International Space Station, Cape Canaveral, Journal of Guidance, Lockheed Martin, United States, Hubble Space Telescope, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Courtesy Orbital Sciences Corporation, Van Allen, Courtesy Arianespace, Courtesy Boeing Company, Delta Launch Services, Courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Department of Defense, Common Core, Government Printing Office, Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, Russian Mir, Separated Spacecraft Mass, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Aerospace Corp, Ann Arbor, Applied Optimal Estimation, Dissociated Air New!
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