Astronautics category: 1620 books
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation’s collective memory.
In...
SR-71
The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound, so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. Above 80,000 feet, its pilots had...
The God Machine
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the Introduction: Reflections of a Technocrat is an autobiography that ends as a biography. John McLucas died on the first of December 2002, at the age of 82, with all but the last chapter remaining to be started. He had been preparing to do a memoir, on and off, for many years, but only in the...
Aeroservoelasticity
Modeling and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This monograph presents the state of the art in aeroservoelastic (ASE) modeling and analysis and develops a systematic theoretical and computational framework for use by researchers and practicing engineers. It is the first book to focus on the mathematical modeling of structural dynamics, unsteady...
by F. Landis Markley, John L. Crassidis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This book explores topics that are central to the field of spacecraft attitude determination and control. The authors provide rigorous theoretical derivations of significant algorithms accompanied by a generous amount of qualitative discussions of the subject matter. The book documents the development...
Into the Black
The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (#1 bestselling author Clive Cussler), Into the Black recaptures the historic moments leading up to and the exciting story of the astronauts who flew the daring maiden...
by Amir Abbas Emadzadeh, Jason Lee Speyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars will consist of two parts. One is on modeling of X-ray pulsar signals. The second part explains how X-ray pulsar signals can be used to solve the relative navigation problem. This book formulates the problem, proposes a recursive solution, and analyzes different...
Robust and Adaptive Control
With Aerospace Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Robust and Adaptive Control shows the reader how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events. Driven by aerospace applications the focus of the book is primarily on continuous-dynamical systems.
The text is a three-part...
Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control
Selected Papers of the Fourth CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Held in Warsaw, Poland, April 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The first three CEAS (Counsil of European Aerospace Societies) Specialist Conferences on Guidance, Navigation and Control (CEAS EuroGNC) were held in Munich, Germany in 2011, in Delft, Netherlands in 2013 and in Toulouse, France in 2017. The Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and the Rzeszow University...
by Giancarlo Genta
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots. After presenting an overview of the environments and conditions space robots have to work in, the author discusses a variety of manipulatory devices robots may use to perform...
Foundations of Circulation Control Based Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft
A Comprehensive Methodology from Concept to Design and Experimental Testing
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book focuses on using and implementing Circulation Control (CC) - an active flow control method used to produce increased lift over the traditionally used systems, like flaps, slats, etc. - to design a new type of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft that are endowed with improved aerodynamic efficiency,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management collects selected papers from the conference of ISAMM 2013 in China held in Xi’an on November 25-28, 2013. The book presents state-of-the-art studies on the aviation maintenance, test, fault diagnosis, and prognosis for the...
Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Test Methods, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8
Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Testing, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering....