[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: [Teamcringely_eng] Space engineering coursework of relevance to some of our design activities

[Bryan Bishop]

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From: Igor Carron <igorcarron at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2007 11:12 AM
Subject: [Teamcringely_eng] Space engineering coursework of relevance
to some of our design activities
To: teamcringely_eng at lists.ibiblio.org


Folks:

For your information only, for those of you who want to know more
about spacecraft design there is the MIT opencourse initiative.
I found these courses/notes to be more particularly relevant to some
aspect of our efforts:


Attitude Determination and Control
(ADCS)
Olivier L. de Weck
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16.684 Space Systems Product Development

in particular these notes: l9_acs.pdf of 16.851 at
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-851Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm

Please note the "Will not be able to use/afford STAR TRACKERS !" in
slide 37 out of 57. A table with different accuracy is on slide 36
(forget about magnetic when going to the moon). We will look at this
with Harry and Celso but it would seem to me that a star tracker maybe
a killer and that a combination of earth/moon/sun trackers may be good
enough. We will need first to evaluate how the spacecraft need to
control its trajectory (past e-mail discussion with Tomas).


       16.512  Rocket Propulsion       Fall 2005
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-512Fall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm

       16.522  Space Propulsion        Spring 2004
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-522Spring2004/LectureNotes/index.htm

in particular

1 Mission Requirements for Space Propulsion (PDF)
Review of Rocket Propulsion (PDF)
4 Re-positioning in Orbits (PDF)
5       Chemical Thrusters for In-Space Propulsion (PDF)
6       Hydrazine Decomposition: Performance Estimates (PDF)

Of particular interest is this document that is relevant to the
current discussion of tank design (there is a curve fit for valve
weight as a function to thrust).
7       Bipropellant Chemical Thrusters and Chemical Propulsion Systems
Consideration (Valving, Tanks, etc.) (PDF)
9       Some Examples of Small Solid Propellant Rockets for In-space
Propulsion (PDF)


Igor.

--
Igor Carron, Ph.D.
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