Overview
- Deals with all aspects of spaceflight operations as a complete course
- Authors are well-known experts in their areas of expertise
- Author work with unique situation that human spaceflight and satellite missions are being operated next door
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Schmidhuber works in the Department for Mission Operations at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC). There he is responsible for satellite operations training. He graduated as an aerospace engineer at the Technical University of Munich in 1994. After working in several positions and affiliations within GSOC, he became a DLR staff member in 2006. The training activities comprise not only staff training but also courses for an external audience in the annual Spacecraft Operations Course at GSOC. Also he is involved in the organization of the bi-annual international SpaceOps Conference.
Thomas Uhlig is Columbus Flight Director at the Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen and is leading the training for the European ISS flight controllers. He received his physics diploma and his Ph.D. from the University of Regensburg/Germany, where he worked on electromagnetic imaging of nanostructures. After working as scientist at theArgonne National Laboratory in Chicago he changed into the spaceflight business, where he worked as Payload expert on the Space Shuttle mission STS-122, before he changed in his present position. He was awarded with the Helmholtz price 2005 of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, and is member of the International Astronautical Federation Space Operations Committee. He is author of various scientific articles.
Florian Sellmaier is the head of business development at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC). He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/Munich in 1996 and also spent some time at CALTECH in Pasadena/USA. After working in the radar and navigations area and as team lead of the Siemens Competence Center for e-Business Applications he joined DLR in 2006. As a project manager he conducted the acquisition and predevelopment of several upcoming mission like OLEV, DEOS and EDRS. He is author of numerous scientific publicationsin the Astrophysics as well as in the Space Operations area.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spacecraft Operations
Editors: Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1803-0
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-4848-8Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-1803-0Published: 20 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 425
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 136 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)