This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft. With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and contributions from globally leading agency experts from NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNES, as well as European and North American academics and industrialists, this handbook, as well as giving an interdisciplinary overview, offers, through individual self-contained chapters, more detailed understanding of specific fields, ranging through: - Launch systems, structures, power, thermal, communications, propulsion, and software, to - entry, descent and landing, ground segment, robotics, and data systems, to - technology management, legal and regulatory issues, and project management. This handbook is an equally invaluable asset to those on a career path towards the space industry as it is to those already within the industry.
Author(s): Malcolm Macdonald, Viorel Badescu (eds.)
Series: Springer Praxis Books - Astronautical Engineering
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 731
Tags: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-24
A System-Level View of Space Projects....Pages 25-36
Space Environments and Survivability....Pages 37-59
Introduction to Astrodynamics....Pages 61-98
Introduction to Atmospheric Transit....Pages 99-115
Payload Design and Sizing....Pages 117-142
Space Systems Engineering....Pages 143-163
Launch Systems....Pages 165-195
Structure, Mechanisms and Deployables....Pages 197-247
Electrical Power....Pages 249-277
Spacecraft Propulsion....Pages 279-321
Attitude and Orbit Control Systems....Pages 323-369
Thermal Systems....Pages 371-395
Communications Systems....Pages 397-440
On-Board Data Systems....Pages 441-470
Flight Software....Pages 471-491
Habitation in Space....Pages 493-514
Entry, Descent and Landing Systems....Pages 515-539
Space Robotics....Pages 541-573
Ground Segment....Pages 575-598
Technology Management....Pages 599-618
Project Management: Relationship Between the Project Manager and the Technologist....Pages 619-655
Legal and Regulatory Issues....Pages 657-675
Advanced Concepts....Pages 677-683
Mission and System Design....Pages 685-713
Back Matter....Pages 715-731
