Title: Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion: Principles, Practice and New Developments Author: Martin J.L., Turner ISBN: 1852331054 / 9781852331054 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 226 Publisher: Springer Verlag Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
Description
Contents
Space exploration and research depends fundamentally on the use of rockets to launch probes and manned vehicles beyond the earths atmosphere. The first successful launch vehicles were developed in the 1960s from concepts dating back to the 1930s.This practical book written from the perspective of the space scientist deals with the latest applications and propulsion concepts at a level readable by space scientists and students without a formal engineering background.There are seven main topics: Principles of rocket propulsion and base vehicle dynamics; Thermal motors and the thermodynamics of thrust; Liquid propellant motors; Solid propellant motors; Launch vehicles, station keeping and attitude control, interplanetary transfer vehicles and dynamics; New developments: advanced thermal motors; electric propulsion and dynamics of electrically propelled vehicles; Future developments, fission and fusion powered propulsion.
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations, Plates and Tables
Chapter 1 : History and Principles of Rocket Propulsion Chapter 2 : The Thermal Rocket Engines Chapter 3 : Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines Chapter 4 : Solid Propellant Rocket Motors Chapter 5 : Launch Vehicle Dynamics Chapter 6 : Electric Propulsion Chapter 7 : Advanced Thermal Rockets
Appendix 1 : Orbital Motion
Appendix 2 : Launcher Survey
Further Reading
Index