Astronautics category: 1620 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
These Proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2016, held during 18th-20th May in Changsha, China. The theme of CSNC2016 is Smart Sensing, Smart Perception. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress...
Handbook of Satellite Orbits
From Kepler to GPS
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Fifty years after Sputnik, artificial satellites have become indispensable monitors in many areas, such as economics, meteorology, telecommunications, navigation and remote sensing. The specific orbits are important for the proper functioning of the satellites. This book discusses the great variety...
Morphing Wing Technologies
Large Commercial Aircraft and Civil Helicopters
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Morphing Wings Technologies: Large Commercial Aircraft and Civil Helicopters offers a fresh look at current research on morphing aircraft, including industry design, real manufactured prototypes and certification. This is an invaluable reference for students in the aeronautics and aerospace fields...
by Xuefeng Li, Chaobing Li
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book uses the entire flying process, starting from ground launching of the orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) to injecting payload into earth synchronous orbit, as an example for real-world engineering practices. It discusses in detail the analysis design and integrated OTV navigation and guidance...
China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2013 Proceedings
Precise Orbit Determination & Positioning • Atomic Clock Technique & Time–Frequency System • Integrated Navigation & New Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2013 Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC2013, held on 15-17 May in Wuhan, China. The theme of CSNC2013 is: BeiDou Application: Opportunities and Challenges. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation...
Wireless Sensor and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Vehicular and Space Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Wireless sensor Networks: Vehicle and Space Applications describes the practical perspectives in using wireless sensor networks (WSN) to develop real world applications that can be used for space exploration. These applications include sensor interfaces, remote wireless vehicles, space crew health...
A Combined Data and Power Management Infrastructure
For Small Satellites
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This book describes the development and design of a unique combined data and power management infrastructure The use in small satellites gives some particular requirements to the systems like potential hardware failure robustness and handling of different types of external analog and digital interfaces....
Bird Strike
An Experimental, Theoretical and Numerical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
Bird strikes are one of the most dangerous threats to civil and military flight safety: between 1960 and 2014, they were responsible for the destruction of approximately 150 civil aircraft and the deaths of 271 people.
Bird Strike presents a summary of the damage imposed on the aviation industries...
Flight Systems and Control
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book focuses on flight vehicles and their navigational systems, discussing different forms of flight structures and their control systems, from fixed wings to rotary crafts. Software simulation enables testing of the hardware without actual implementation, and the flight simulators, mechanics,...
by Audrey L. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Access to satellite orbits and spectrum is managed by the ITU, a United Nations body that strives to extend the benefits of new technologies to the world, while ensuring equitable access to these resources. This book explores how the ITU approaches these dual missions in light of the increasing saturation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2015 Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC2015, held during 13th-15th May in Xian, China. The theme of CSNC2015 is Opening-up, Connectivity and Win-win. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
These Proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2016, held during 18th-20th May in Changsha, China. The theme of CSNC2016 is Smart Sensing, Smart Perception. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress...
by Jiaxing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Spacecraft TT&C and Information Transmission Theory and Technologies introduces the basic theory of spacecraft TT&C (telemetry, track and command) and information transmission. Combining TT&C and information transmission, the book presents several technologies for continuous wave radar...
Plane Crash
The Forensics of Aviation Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
One of the most amazing feats of modern life is the frequency with which airplanes safely take off and land: about 40,000 times a day in the United States alone. Commercial aviation is by far the safest mode of transportation and is becoming safer all the time. But on the exceedingly rare occasion...