Overview
- Contains detailed procedures for designing each spacecraft subsystem, including software
- Includes over 225 illustrations, graphs, and equations specific to spacecraft hardware and software technologies
- Provides valuable information about a hot and growing market for small satellite designers and universities
Part of the book series: Space Technology Library (SPTL, volume 36)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth’s orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself. This book offers an in-depth guide to engineers and professionals seeking to understand the technologies behind Low Earth Orbit satellites.
With access to special spreadsheets that provide the key equations and relationships needed for mastering spacecraft design, this book gives the growing crop of space engineers and professionals the tools and resources they need to prepare their own LEO satellite designs, which is especially useful for designers of small satellites such as those launched by universities. Each chapter breaks down the various mathematics and principles underlying current spacecraft software and hardware designs.Â
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Steve Fujikawa is a spacecraft attitude determination and control system (ADACS) specialist, and the President of Maryland Aerospace Inc.
Mr. Alex Chuchra is a spacecraft thermal design specialist with extensive NASA experience.
Mr. Nick Galassi is a spacecraft structural analyst with NASA and other private spacecraft programs.
The combined expertise of this group has resulted in this brief but comprehensive engineering design handbook to aid the practical LEOÂ spacecraft designer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Low Earth Orbit Satellite Design
Authors: George Sebestyen, Steve Fujikawa, Nicholas Galassi, Alex Chuchra
Series Title: Space Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68315-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68314-0Published: 15 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88579-7Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68315-7Published: 06 February 2018
Series ISSN: 0924-4263
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 317
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 155 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems