Space Technology: A Compendium for Space Engineering

✍ Scribed by Thomas F. Mütsch; Matthias B. Kowalski

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook is a compendium for further education of students and professionals in aerospace industry. It covers the fundamentals of aerospace and explains the details of technical implementations. These are organised in the border area of technical feasibility. The authors discuss constraints of space flight and key elements of rocket motors and power supply in more detail. The accessibility of the celestial bodies is tabulated and documented in the outlook chapter, in which the largest vision of space flight, humans to Mars, is explained.

From the content:
Historical Background
Basic Principles
Propulsion Systems
Missions
Energy Sources
Materials and Lubricants
Processes
Products
Projects and Payloads
Launch Sites
Environmental and Boundary Conditions
Conclusions and Outlook
Appendix with an extensive collection of formulas

• Instructive compendium with tables and coloured figures.
• Questions and answers after each chapter.
• Lists of important mathematical equations and formulae of orbital mechanics and rocket flights in the Appendix.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Historical Background
1.1 Consolidation of Space Flight
1.2 Questions for Further Studies
2 Basic Principles
2.1 Solar System
2.2 Atmosphere of the Earth
2.3 Distances and velocities
2.3.1 Linear Velocity
2.3.2 Angular velocity
2.4 Laws of Conservation of Energy and Momentum
2.5 Theoretical Basics of Orbit Mechanics
2.5.1 Ballistic Trajectories
2.5.2 Circular Orbits
2.5.3 Elliptical Orbit
2.5.4 Parabolic Trajectories
2.5.5 Hyperbolic Trajectories
2.5.6 Trajectory Changes
2.5.7 Atmospheric Braking Manoeuvre
2.5.8 Multiple-body Problems
2.6 Attitude Control and Stabilisation
2.6.1 Three-Axis Stabilisation
2.6.2 Spin Stabilisation
2.6.3 Gravitational Gradient Stabilisation
2.6.4 Magnetic Stabilisation
2.7 Questions for Further Studies
3 Propulsion Systems
3.1 Rocket Equation
3.2 Air-Breathing Propulsion Systems
3.3 Chemical Propulsion Systems
3.3.1 Solid Propulsion Systems
3.3.2 Liquid Propulsion Systems
3.3.3 Hybrid Propulsion Systems
3.3.4 Tribrid Propulsion Systems
3.4 Physical Propulsion Systems
3.4.1 Cold Gas Propulsion Systems
3.4.2 Electric Propulsion Systems
3.4.3 Thermonuclear Propulsion Systems
3.4.4 Photon Propulsion Systems
3.5 Questions for Further Studies
4 Missions
4.1 Velocity demand
4.2 Questions for Further Studies
5 Energy Sources
5.1 Batteries
5.2 Fuel Cells
5.3 Solar Cells
5.4 Thermonuclear Energy Sources
5.5 Thermoelectric Modules
5.6 Questions for Further Studies
6 Energy Storages
6.1 Mechanical Flywheels
6.2 Electrochemical Storages
6.3 Chemical Propellants
6.4 Questions for Further Studies
7 Materials and Lubricants
7.1 Mechanical properties
7.2 Lubrication properties
7.3 Materials Used in Space
7.4 Commodity Prices
7.5 Questions for Further Studies
8 Processes
8.1 Manufacturing processes
8.2 Verification Processes
8.3 Testing Processes
8.4 Test philosophy
8.5 Questions for Further Studies
9 Products
9.1 Launch Vehicles
9.1.1 Saturn V
9.1.2 Ariane 5 launch vehicle
9.1.3 Ariane 6 Launch Vehicle
9.1.4 Space Transportation System
9.1.5 Space Launch System
9.1.6 Other launcher systems
9.2 Satellites and Probes
9.2.1 Hubble Space Telescope
9.2.2 Cassini Space Probe
9.2.3 Apollo Modules
9.3 Chemical Propulsion Systems
9.4 Re-entry Bodies
9.5 Single-Stage-To-Orbit vehicles
9.6 Fully re-usable Vehicles
9.7 Re-entry Vehicles
9.8 Expendable 1st / 2nd Stage Vehicles
9.9 Questions for Further Studies
10 Projects and Payloads
10.1 Commercial Projects
10.2 Scientific Projects
10.3 Military Projects
10.4 Questions for Further Studies
11 Launch Sites
11.1 Baikonur Spaceport
11.2 Kennedy Space Center
11.3 Guiana Space Centre
11.4 Questions for Further Studies
12 Environmental and Boundary Conditions
12.1 Environmental Conditions
12.2 Boundary Conditions
12.3 Visibility of Satellites
12.4 Questions for Further Studies
13 Conclusions and Outlook
13.1 Commercialisation of Aerospace Industry
13.2 Scenario for Manned Space Flight to Mars
13.3 Fundamentals of a Manned Mission to Mars
13.4 Possible Trajectories to Mars
13.5 Landing on Mars
13.6 Plannings and Projects
13.6.1 ExoMars Programme
13.6.2 Mars Sample Return Mission
13.7 Estimating Masses and Costs
13.8 Conclusions
13.9 Questions for Further Studies
14 Appendix
14.1 Acronyms and Abbreviations
14.2 Prefixes and Quantities
14.3 Formulary of Classical Orbital Mechanics
14.4 Formulary of Rocket Flights
14.5 Websites
14.6 Credits for Illustrations
Further Reading
Index