This famous and practical handbook for Space Mission Engineering draws on leading aerospace experts to carry readers through mission design, from orbit selection to ground ops. SMAD III updates the technology, provides greater emphasis on small spacecraft design and the cost-reduction process, and includes more detail on multi-satellite manufacturing, space computers, payload design and autonomous systems.
- ISBN13 9780792359012
- Publish Date 30 September 1999 (first published 1 October 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Springer
- Edition 3rd ed. 1999
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 976
- Language English