Rigid Body Dynamics for Space Applications

This insightful book explores the modern challenges of spaceflight mechanics, including attitude dynamics of re-entry and removal of space debris

Vladimir Aslanov (Author)

9780128110942

Paperback, published 25 April 2017

420 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.68 kg

"This is a timely book dealing with a very important emerging application area for rigid body dynamics – namely space systems engineering – and is written by one of the world’s foremost experts in space systems engineering. ...To summarise, this is a really outstanding book which will complement the bookshelf of satellite and tether researchers in particular, but will be of wider interest too and mission design and analysis engineers will undoubtedly find it of help." --The Aeronautical Journal

Approx.410 pages

1. Mathematical Mechanical Preliminaries
2. Reentry Attitude Dynamics
3. Dynamics and Control of Coaxial Satellite Gyrostats
4. Deployment, Dynamics, and Control of a Tether-Assisted Return Mission of a Reentry Capsule
5. Removal of Large Space Debris by a Tether Tow
6. Original Tasks of Space Mechanics

Subject Areas: Astronautics [TTDS], Aerospace & aviation technology [TRP], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]