- Hardcover: 660 pages
- Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast; 2nd edition (Jan 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1563475391
- ISBN-13: 978-1563475399
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.6 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,410,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- See Complete Table of Contents
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Review
"The best, the most comprehensive, the most up-to-date resource for today's engineering challenges in space systems design."
Book Description
Text provides an overall description of the basic mission considerations for spacecraft design; including astrodynamics, space environment, and atmospheric reentry. Material has been updated to be consistent with current experience and practice in the field. For students. Previous edition: c1991. DLC: Space vehicles--Design and construction.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
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
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.ca
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good text but very general, Mar 9 2008
By Zachary Napolillo - Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition (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.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
difficult design constraints, May 23 2007
By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition (Hardcover)
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.
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
