Three groups of student engineers in an aerospace vehicle design course present their designs for a vehicle that can be used to resupply the Space Station Freedam and provide emergency crew return to earth capability. The vehicle's requirements include a lifetime that exceeds six years, low cost, the capability for withstanding pressurization, launch, orbit, and reentry hazards, and reliability. The vehicle's subsystems are structures, communication and command data systems, attitude and articulation control, life support and crew systems, power and propulsion, reentry and recovery systems, and mission management, planning, and costing. Special attention is given to spacecraft communications.


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    Title :

    Aerospace Vehicle Design, Spacecraft Section. Volume 2: Project Groups 6 Through 8


    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    272 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English