Astronautics category: 1620 books
The Big Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters
USAF Jet-Powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942. On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered...
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles
From Theory to Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace demonstrates the attractive potential of recent developments in control for resolving such issues as flight performance, self protection and extended-life structures. Importantly, the text deals with a number of practically significant...
by Peter Dancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
This book presents a selection of conference contributions from CARO’13 (Conference on Aerospace Robotics), which was held in Warsaw from July 1 to 3, 2013. It presents the most important and crucial problems of space automation in context of future exploration programs. These programs could involve...
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles develops new control design techniques for the distributed coordination of a team of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. In particular, it provides new control design approaches for the attitude synchronization of a formation of rigid body systems....
by C.A. Rabbath, N. Léchevin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This unique book provides a bridge between digital control theory and vehicle guidance and control practice. It presents practical techniques of digital redesign and direct discrete-time design suitable for a real-time implementation of controllers and guidance laws at multiple rates and with and...
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.
In...
Rocketeers
Visionaries and Daredevils of the New Sp
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“That this story is still unfolding makes it especially exciting to read. These men are still in their workshops, tinkering their way into orbit.” —David Gelles, FORBES
On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This Air Force book presents the many interesting stories of a McDonnell Aircraft engineer on everything from aeronautical engineering to manned spacecraft. From the Foreword: Rarely is a reader exposed to such an extraordinary, multi-faceted presentation of aerospace technology as Bob Brulle narrates...
Space Shuttle 1981-2011
Stories from 30 Years of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The fascinating oral histories of seven American astronauts - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this historic program, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews divulge new information and some...
Rocket Billionaires
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Featured on NPR and PBS’s SciTech Now**, and in** Fast Company**,** Forbes**, and the** Wall Street Journal
The inside story of the new race to conquer space
For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative...
The World's Greatest Civil Aircraft
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Commercial air travel began just over a century ago. In that time there have been groundbreaking civilian aircraft, such as flying boats, the first pressurized cabin aircraft, jet and supersonic aircraft, as well as immense changes in the capacity of a typical airliner: in the 1920s aircraft struggled...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This is a comprehensive history of NASA's aviation programs, starting with NACA research in the 1940s and 1950s through the space race to current times. Topics covered include: NACA, Langley, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, wind tunnels, von Karman, Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, Hugh Dryden, Max...