History and principles of rocket propulsion -- The thermal rocket engine -- Liquid propellant rocket engines -- Solid propellant rocket motors -- Launch vehicle dynamics -- Electric propulsion -- Nuclear propulsion -- Advanced thermal rockets.The revised edition of this practical, hands-on book discusses the range of launch vehicles in use today throughout the world, and includes the very lates…
and Historical Background -- The PVTOL Aircraft -- The Quad-rotor Rotorcraft -- Robust Prediction-based Control for Unstable Delay Systems -- Modelling and Control of Mini-helicopters -- Helicopter in a Vertical Flying Stand -- Modelling and Control of a Tandem-Wing Tail-Sitter UAV -- Modelling and Control of Small Autonomous Airships -- Sensors, Modems and Microcontrollers for UAVs.Problems in…
Motivations for deep-space travel -- The realms of space -- Tomorrow’s targets -- Space propulsion today -- The incredible shrinking spaceprobe -- The nuclear option -- 21st century starflight -- On the technological horizon -- Exotic possibilities -- Of stars, planets and life -- Life between the stars -- Conscious spacecraft -- Meeting ET -- Interstellar message plaques -- Appendix: Photon …
Getting started -- Routine operations -- A step towards continuous occupancy -- A base block for modular construction -- An astrophysical laboratory -- A microgravity laboratory for hire -- Expansion or abandonment? -- Shuttle-Mir -- The final chapter -- In retrospect.This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting in M…