5 QUOTES WITH «SPACECRAFT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
spacecraft.
I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.
NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPACECRAFT»
Discover the use of
spacecraft in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spacecraft and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Spacecraft Systems Engineering
This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications ...
Peter Fortescue, Graham Swinerd, John Stark, 2011
2
Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering ...
This 1997 book explains basic theory of spacecraft dynamics and control and the practical aspects of controlling a satellite.
3
Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control
This classic book is the first comprehensive presentation of data, theory, and practice in attitude analysis.
James Richard Wertz, 1978
4
Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: An Introduction
This is very important in spacecraft dynamics and control problems, where often multiple coordinate representations are used (in different reference frames) for the same physical vector.
Anton H. de Ruiter, Christopher Damaren, James R. Forbes, 2012
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Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, control and navigation
In this unique text, authors Alfriend et al. provide a coherent discussion of spacecraft relative motion, both in the unperturbed and perturbed settings, explain the main control approaches for regulating relative satellite dynamics, using ...
Kyle Alfriend, Srinivas Rao Vadali, Pini Gurfil, 2009
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Elements of
spacecraft design
The book also benefits from his years of teaching spacecraft design at University of Colorado at Boulder and as a popular home study short course for AIAA. The book presents a broad view of the complete spacecraft.
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Control of
Spacecraft and Aircraft
In this book Arthur Bryson describes the linear-quadratic-regulator (LQR) method of feedback control synthesis, which coordinates multiple controls, producing graceful maneuvers comparable to those of an expert pilot.
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Introduction to Space Sciences and
Spacecraft Applications
Introduction to Space Sciences and Spacecraft Applications
Bruce A. Campbell, Paula Walter McCandless Jr., 1996
The Emphasis of this book is put on unmanned space flight, particularly on the construction of spacecraft rather than the construction of launch vehicles. The nature of the satellite is dependent on the task that is set for that satellite.
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Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook: Cryogenics
Annotation This is a revised and updated of (1994) and has been expanded to discuss interplanetary spacecraft as well as Earth- orbiting satellites.
Martin Donabedian, David G. Gilmore, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPACECRAFT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
spacecraft is used in the context of the following news items.
Virgin Galactic spacecraft crash 'due to braking error'
Investigators say a Virgin Galactic spaceship crash was caused by structural failure after the co-pilot unlocked a braking system early. The National ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
NASA spacecraft shows Pluto wrapped in haze, ice flows
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A stunning silhouette of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft after it shot past the icy orb last week show an ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
New Horizons Used A Playstation CPU To Fly By Pluto
The New Horizons spacecraft has come closer to Pluto than we've ever been before, and it turns out the little planet is actually a pretty fascinating place. «Forbes, Jul 15»
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Signal From Pluto to Earth
LAUREL, Md. — After a long day celebrating the arrival of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto and wondering about its fate while it was out of radio contact ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
How to Drive a Spacecraft 3 Billion Miles
Nine and a half years and three billion miles later, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zoom past Pluto on Tuesday. And mission managers are confident that ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Nears Its Quarry
It has taken nearly a decade and 3 billion miles to get there, but scientists are about to get their first look at Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft is closing fast on ... «NPR, Jul 15»
Russian Spacecraft Malfunction Shifts International Space Station's …
A glitch in a Russian spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) caused the space station's position in orbit to change on Tuesday, according to ... «International Business Times, Jun 15»
Out-of-Control Russian Spacecraft Will Fall from Space Overnight …
Russia's unmanned Progress 59 spacecraft is seen being prepared for its April 28, 2015 launch. The spacecraft later suffered a major malfunction after reaching ... «Space.com, May 15»
SpaceX successfully tests manned Dragon spacecraft [UPDATED]
SpaceX is running a critical Pad Abort test on its Dragon V2 spacecraft Wednesday. It's the first real test on the craft, and will help pave the way for its first ... «ExtremeTech, May 15»
NASA spacecraft smashes into Mercury
NASA's Messenger spacecraft has crashed into the planet Mercury after running out of fuel, in an incident expected by the US space agency. On Thursday ... «Aljazeera.com, Apr 15»
