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Spacecraft Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2006; US$ 84.00Spacecraft Technology: The Early Years charts the early Space Age, including the launch of the first satellites and the landing of man on the Moon. This period of technological development, between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, is one of the most important we have ever known. It is the period in which we learned how to leave our home planet... more...
Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion
Wiley 2008; US$ 152.00Throughout most of the twentieth century, electric propulsion was considered the technology of the future. Now, the future has arrived. This important new book explains the fundamentals of electric propulsion for spacecraft and describes in detail the physics and characteristics of the two major electric thrusters in use today, ion and Hall thrusters.... more...
On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System
Springer 2008; US$ 69.99Commercial interest for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has seen a steady increase over the last decade. Nevertheless, UAS operations have remained almost exclusively military. This is mainly due to the lack of a regulatory framework that allows only limited public and civil UAS operations with usually crippling restrictions. Although efforts from... more...
How Spacecraft Fly
Springer 2008; US$ 21.99Explains aerodynamic and astrodynamic flight without the use of mathematics for non-technical readers who are interested in spaceflight and spacecraft. This book provides the historical context upon which the developments in spaceflight have been built. more...
Safety Design for Space Systems
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 225.00Progress in space safety lies in the acceptance of safety design and engineering as an integral part of the design and implementation process for new space systems. Safety must be seen as the principle design driver of utmost importance from the outset of the design process, which is only achieved through a culture change that moves all stakeholders... more...
Spaceplanes
Springer 2009; US$ 27.99Presents a vision of the future in which space vehicles can take off from an international airport, refuel in space, and fly regularly between the Earth and the Moon. This title offers a picture of the future which explains why the Space Tourist market could become an important factor in the mid-term future development of space transportation. more...
Space Technologies for the Benefit of Human Society and Earth
Springer 2009; US$ 179.99Offers a comprehensive review of how space technology can be used to resolve fundamental environmental, technological, and humanitarian challenges that we are experiencing on our planet. This book demonstrates to the IT and business communities how space technology can be incorporated into terrestrial IT applications to facilitate decision-making. more...
Deep Space Flight and Communications
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99Offers a look at the ways in which it is possible to exploit the focusing effect of the Sun as a gravitational lens for scientific missions to distances of 550 AU and beyond into interstellar space. This book deals with the problems of communicating between an interstellar spaceship and the Earth, especially at very high speeds. more...
The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 44.00The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary is scholarly, accessible, and essential reading for those interested in flight and the aerospace industry. more...
Historical Dictionary of Air Intelligence
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 89.99The Historical Dictionary of Air Intelligence relates the evolving history of air intelligence through a list of abbreviations and acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on the agencies and agents, the operations and equipment, and the tradecraft and jargon. more...









