A collection of useful resources for space engineering
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The International Handbook of Space Technology
Malcolm Macdonald and Viorel Badescu, 1st Ed., Springer, 2014 [ISBN 978-3-642-41100-7] -
Spacecraft Systems Engineering
Peter Fortescue and Graham Swinerd and John Stark, 4th Ed., Wiley, 2011 [ISBN 978-0-470-75012-4] -
Spacecraft Operations
Thomas Uhlig and Florian Sellmaier and Michael Schmidhuber, Springer, 2015 [ISBN 978-3-7091-1803-0]
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CubeSat Handbook
Chantal Cappelletti and Simone Battistini and Benjamin Malphru, 1st Ed., Elsevier, 2020 [ISBN 9780128178843] -
CubeSat Standards Handbook: A Survey of International Space Standards with Application for CubeSat Missions
Arthur Scholz, 2019 [gitlab.com] -
Improving Mission Success of CubeSats
Catherine C. Venturini, 2017 [TOR-2017-01689] -
State of the Art of Small Spacecraft Technology
NASA Ames Research Center, Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute, 2020 [nasa.gov] -
CubeSat 101
NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative, 2017 [nasa.gov]
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Basic Steps in Designing a Space Mission
Richard G. Marsden, Summer School Alpbach 2002 [esa.int] -
Mission and System Design
Peter Falkner, Summer School Alpbach 2019 [summerschoolalpbach.at] -
System Engineering and Technology
Michèle Lavagna, Summer School Alpbach 2019 [summerschoolalpbach.at] -
Space Mission Analysis and Design
W. J. Larson and J. R. Wertz (Editors), 3rd Ed., Microcosm Press, 1999 [ISBN 978-0-7923-5901-2] -
Space Mission Engineering The New SMAD
J. Wertz and D. Everett and J. Puschell, Microcosm Press, 2011 [ISBN 978-1-881-883-15-9] -
Space project management
ECSS, 2009 [ECSS-M-ST-10C]
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Spaceflight dynamics
William E. Wiesel, 3rd Ed., Aphelion Press, 2010 [ISBN 9781452879598] -
Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students
Howard Curtis, 4th Ed., Elsevier, 2019 [ISBN 978-0-08-102133-0]
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Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion
Philip Hill and Carl Peterson, 2nd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 1992 [ISBN 9780201146592] -
Rocket Propulsion Elements
George P. Sutton and Oscar Biblarz, 9th Ed., Wiley, 2017 [ISBN 978-1-118-75365-1] -
Spacecraft Propulsion
Charles D. Brown, AIAA, 1996 [ISBN 978-1-56347-128-5] -
Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters
Dan M. Goebel and Ira Katz, JPL, 2008 [nasa.gov] -
Applied Ion Systems
Michael Bretti, Applied Ion Systems [appliedionsystems.com]
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Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems
John L. Junkins and Hanspeter Schaub, 2nd Ed., AIAA Education Series, 2009 [ISBN 978-1-60086-721-7] -
Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control
F. Landis Markley and John L. Crassidis, Springer, 2014 [ISBN 978-1-4939-0801-1]
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Systems Engineering
Brian Douglas, MATLAB Tech Talk, 2020 [youtube.com] -
Systems Engineering Handbook
INCOSE, 4th Ed., Wiley, 2015 [ISBN 978-1-118-99940-0] -
Systems Engineering Fundamentals
DoD, 2001 [mit.edu] -
Systems Engineering Handbook
NASA, 2017 [NASA SP-2016-6105 Rev2]
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Guide for Writing Requirements
INCOSE, 2012 [INCOSE-TP-2010-006-01] -
Technical requirements specification
ECSS, 2009 [ECSS-E-ST-10-06C]
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EChO Mission Requirements Document
ESA, Issue 2, Revision 3, 2013 [SRE-PA/2011.038/] -
MarcoPolo-R Mission Requirements Document
ESA, Issue 3, Revision 2, 2012 [SRE-PA/2011.076/MarcoPolo-R] -
Galileo Galilei (GG) Mission Requirements Document
Thales Alenia Space, Issue 2, 2009 [SD-TN-AI-1167]
- Margin philosophy for science assessment studies
ESA, Issue 1, Revision 3, 2012 [SRE-PA/2011.097/]
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Fault-Tolerant Design
Elena Dubrova, 1st Ed., Springer, 2013 [ISBN 978-1-4614-2112-2] -
Fault Tree Handbook
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1981 [NUREG-0492] -
Risk Management
ECSS, 2008 [ECSS-M-ST-80C]
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CDF Study Report Ice Giants
ESA, 2019 [CDF-187(C)] -
CDF Study Report SPP NEO Inactive Body
ESA, 2018 [CDF-178(A)] -
CDF Study Report SPP MAB Active Body
ESA, 2018 [CDF-178(B)] -
CDF Study Report Phobos Sample Return
ESA, 2014 [CDF-145(C)]
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
asat.gr
AcubeSAT, 3U, in development
Publications on their blog , their gitlab, or their documentation website
Arizona State University, USA
phxcubesat.asu.edu
Phoenix CubeSat, 3U, deployed from ISS 2020-02-19
Public data on their website including reviews
Stanford, USA
roboticexplorationlab.org
PyCubed project. Open source, flight heritage
notion.so and GitHub
EPFL, Switzerland
spacecenter.ch
Swiss Cube, 1U, launched in 2009
Sources available on their FTP
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Engineering the Space Shuttle
Jeffrey Hoffman and Aaron Cohen, MIT [edX.org] -
Space Mission Design and Operations
Claude Nicollier, EPFL [edX.org] -
Introduction to Systems Engineering
Mike Ryan, UNSW [coursera.org] -
Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
Hanspeter Schaub, University of Colorado Boulder [coursera.org]
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European Space Agency
Science & Technology publication archive [sci.esa.int] -
International Space University
Subject guides and reading lists [isulibrary.isunet.edu] -
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL library of public content [pub-lib.jpl.caltech.edu] -
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Small Spacecraft Virtual Institute [nasa.gov]
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