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Spacecraft Propulsion (AIAA Education Series)
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About Spacecraft Propulsion
Product Description This valuable textbook describes those subjects important to conceptual, competitive stages of propulsion design and emphasizes the tools needed for this process. The text begins with a discussion of the history of propulsion and outlines various propulsion system types to be discussed such as cold gas systems, monopropellant systems, bipropellant systems, and solid systems. Included with the text is PRO: AIAA Propulsion Design Software, which allows the reader to proceed directly from understanding into professional work and provides the accuracy, speed, and convenience of personal computing. Also, the software contains conversion routines that make it easy to move back and forth between English and metric systems. A recommended text for professionals and students of propulsion. In order to obtain the AIAA Propulsion Design Software please contact AIAA Customer Service at [email protected]. They will give you instructions on how to download the software. System Requirements: PC-compatible (486 or higher), 8 Mb RAM, 20 Mb hard drive space available. Review Excellent text on rocket propulsion system design . . . high technical value and accurate . . . --John W. Rockensies, Northrop Grumman About the Author The author has had a distinguished career as the manager of planetary spacecraft projects and as a college-level lecturer in spacecraft design. During his 30 years with Martin Marietta, he led the design team that produced propulsion systems for Mariner 9 and Viking Orbiter. Most recently he directed the team that produced the successful Venus-imaging spacecraft, Magellan. Magellan was launched on Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989 and completed the first spacecraft to fly on the shuttle and the first planetary launch by the United States in 10 years. The author has instructed a popular spacecraft design course at Colorado University in 1981. This book was originally written for use in that course. He also writes software for Wren Software, Inc., a small software company he founded in 1984. He was corecipient of the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy in 1992 for Magellan leadership. He has also received the Astronauts' Silver Snoopy Award in 1989; the NASA Public Service Medal, in 1992 for Magellan, and in 1976 for Viking Orbiter; and the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award, 1989 (a team award), from the National Society of Professional Engineer, for Magellan. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1992-1993.
