Astronautics

The machines that orbit our planet live in a void environment however, space travel itself does not exist in a vacuum. Travelling to space is an i...

Space is one of the fastest growing military, government and industry sectors. Because everything in todays world exists within or connected to cyb...

The story of the people who designed, built, launched, landed, and are now operating the Mars rover Curiosity Award-winning science writer Rod Pyl...

This book explains and describes re-entry systems for both the Earth and other planets. It provides sufficient information for readers to perform e...

This book highlights stories of the most important 13 ground-based observatories and 14 space probes in human history, leading readers through each...

In the 1960s and 70s, America spent $20 billion dollars (around $150 billion by today's standards) to land humans on the moon, and win the Cold War...

This book looks at the space industry from a business perspective, with a focus on international competition. The space industry traces its origins...

This book presents a selection of scientific and technical results utilizing new computational methods, tools, and technologies in Aeronautical Des...

NASA's current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts o...

After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set ab...

With the Soviet Unions launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...

Propellants contain considerable chemical energy that can be used in rocket propulsion. Bringing together information on both the theoretical and p...

Written by expert researchers, this book covers all the major aspects of research in Jupiter's moon Io, from the interior to its space environment....

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASAs Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch...

This book includes a carefully curated selection of contributions that were presented at the 17th International Conference on Space Operations (Spa...

Living and working in extra-terrestrial habitats means being potentially vulnerable to very harsh environmental, social, and psychological conditio...

La realizzazione e il lancio nello spazio di satelliti o sonde attraverso missili o navette spaziali sono un esempio di attività industriale di eno...

Provides the basics of spacecraft orbital dynamics plus attitude dynamics and control, using vectrix notation Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: An I...

This book presents the essential characteristics of the different satellite motions. Satellite motions can be classified as anomalistic, draconitic...

'Gripping' ED CAESAR 'Masterly' GEOFF DYER 'Incredible' TIM HARFORD 'A universal story that transcends time' NEW YORK TIMES 'Superb' DAILY TELE...

The articles in this volume present the state-of-the-art in noise prediction, modeling and measurement. The articles are partially based on class n...

In the new space age after the end of the Cold War, orbit and frequency allocations, traffic control, safety, and a number of support services such...

2011: fifty years separate us from the flight of Yuri Gagarin. Fifty years of extraordinary successes, with the kind of apotheosis represented by t...

The Yearbook on Space Policy is the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents issues and trends in space pol...

The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents issues and trends in s...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller*'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thrille...

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future for...

Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite gr...