Understanding Pulsars and Space Navigations

by Ping Shuai

Overview

This book systematically presents the concept, history, implementation, theory system and basic methods of pulsar and space flight, illustrating the characteristics of pulsars. It also describes the classification of spacecraft navigation systems and the autonomous navigation technologies, as well as X-ray pulsar-based navigation systems (XPNAV) and discusses future navigation satellite systems in detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811610660
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	04/16/2021
Series:	Navigation: Science and Technology , #11
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	419
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Ping Shuai was born in Liupanshui City, P. R. China, in 1971. He graduated from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping in 1991 and received his M.S. degree in Geodynamics and Tectonic Physics from the Chinese Seismology Bureau’s Seismological Institute in 1998. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Guidance, Navigation and Control by the Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation in 2003 and joined the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) as a postdoctoral researcher in the same year. His research interests include geodesy, geophysics, integrated navigation systems, navigation constellation design, autonomous navigation of spacecraft, X-ray pulsar-based navigation (XPNAV), and cosmology.

Dr. Ping Shuai is also the chief scientist for the X-ray Pulsar-based Navigation 1 (XPNAV-1), a dedicated pulsar navigation test satellite that was launched successfully into the Low Earth Orbit on November 10, 2016.

Table of Contents

Pulsing Signals from Distant Objects.- A Brief History of Space Flight.- Navigating Approaches to the Moving Body.- Theoretical System for X-ray Pulsar-based Navigation.