Description
SPRINGER The International Handbook Of Space Technology by MACDONALD
This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft.
With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and contributions from globally leading agency experts from NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNES, as well as European and North American academics and industrialists, this handbook, as well as giving an interdisciplinary overview, offers, through individual self-contained chapters, more detailed understanding of specific fields, ranging through:
* Launch systems, structures, power, thermal, communications, propulsion, and software, to
* entry, descent and landing, ground segment, robotics, and data systems, to