The Space Environment and Its Effects on Space Systems

Klappentext This textbook will help students and professionals understand the space environment and its impacts on spacecraft design! engineering! and performance. While the primary emphasis of the book is the Earths environment and its effects on spacecraft! it also addresses the extraterrestrial environment and the effects of radiation on humans in space. Zusammenfassung Helps students and professionals understand the space environment and its impacts on spacecraft design, engineering, and performance. Focussing on the Earth's environment and its effects on spacecraft, this book also addresses the extraterrestrial environment and the effects of radiation on humans in space. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Overview of the Solar System; The Sun; Magnetic and Electric Fields; Gravitational Fields; Magnetosphere; Neutral Environment; Plasma Interactions; Radiation Interactions; Spacecraft Contamination; Meteoroids and Space Debris; Thermal Control; Appendix A: Units! Conversion Factors! and Constants.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent L Pisacane, Vincent L. Pisacane
• Publisher: American inst.aeronautics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2008
• EAN: 9781563479267
• ISBN: 978-1-56347-926-7
• No. of pages: 421
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: AIAA Education; AIAA Education
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering