How Spacecraft Fly

Spaceflight Without Formulae
Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4419-2629-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

In this popular science book, Graham Swinerd explains, without the use of mathematics and in an informal way, aerodynamic and astrodynamic flight for non-technical readers who are interested in spaceflight and spacecraft.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swinerd, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Raumfahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Brief History of Space.- Basic Orbits.- Real Orbits.- Beyond Circles and Ellipses.- Getting to Orbit.- Somthing About Environment.- Spacecraft Design.- Subsystem Design I Like Your Attitude.- More Subsystem Design.- Space in the 21st Century.- Space The Final Frontier.

Über Autor(innen)

Graham Swinerd has over thirty years of experience in spacecraft orbit design and analysis and in the design of spacecraft. He also has many years of experience as an engineer, both in industry, working for a number of years at British Aerospace Space Systems, and as a lecturer of spacecraft engineering at Southampton University, supervising project undergraduate and postgraduate research students. He has some 60 technical papers published in refereed journals, and numerous conference papers. He is also principal editor, and contributing author, of an award winning standard textbook in spacecraft design - 'Spacecraft Systems Engineering (3 Edition)', Fortescue, Stark and Swinerd, Wiley & Sons, 2003. Graham Swinerd is therefore ideally suited to author a book on the subject of the design and operation of spacecraft.

Award: Luigi Napolitano Literature Award, presented by the International Academy of Astronautics, at the 55th International Astronautics Congress, Vancouver, 3 October 2004.