Space Mission Analysis and Design
3rd Edition
Published on 30. September 1999
Book
Hardback
XX, 976 pages
978-0-7923-5901-2 (ISBN)
Description
This famous and practical handbook for Space Mission Engineering draws on leading aerospace experts to carry readers through mission design, from orbit selection to ground ops. SMAD III updates the technology, provides greater emphasis on small spacecraft design and the cost-reduction process, and includes more detail on multi-satellite manufacturing, space computers, payload design and autonomous systems.
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Series
Edition
Third Edition 1999
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
103 s/w Abbildungen
XX, 976 p. 103 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 58 mm
Weight
1492 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-5901-2 (9780792359012)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
James R. Wertz | Wiley J. Larson
Space Mission Analysis and Design
Book
12/1992
2nd Edition
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€173.01
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Content
List of Authors. preface. 1. The Space Mission Analysis and Design Process. 2. Mission Characterization. 3. Mission Evaluation. 4. Requirements Definition. 5. Space Mission Geometry. 6. Introduction to Astrodynamics. 7. Orbit and Constellation Design. 8. The Space Environment and Survivability. 9. Space Payload Design and Sizing. 10. Spacecraft Design and Sizing. 11. Spacecraft Subsystems. 12. Space Manufacture and Test. 13. Communications Architecture. 14. Mission Operations. 15. Ground System Design and Sizing. 16. Spacecraft Computer Systems. 17. Space Propulsion Systems. 18. Launch Systems. 19. Space Manufacturing and Reliability. 20. Cost Modeling. 21. Limits on Mission Design. 22. Design of Low-Cost Spacecraft. 23. Applying the Space Mission Analysis and Design. Appendices: A: Mass Distribution for Selected Satellites. B: Astronautical and Astrophysical Data. C: Elliptical Orbit Equations. D: Spherical Geometry Formulas. E: Universal Time and Julian Dates. F: Units and Conversion Factors. Index.