Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition

Winner of the Summerfield Book Award!

The second edition continues to fulfill the book's original goal—that of linking and integrating the many disciplines relevant to the field of space systems engineering in a way that is impossible when they are considered separately, or even in one text that is the product of many authors. The text starts with an overall description of the basic mission considerations for spacecraft design, including space environment, astrodynamics, and atmospheric reen...