epub |eng | | Author:Colin Higgs

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress can easily be forgotten as it never served in Europe during the Second World War. However it was, by some way, the most technically advanced bomber ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:John M. Logsdon

A 1971-vintage artist’s concept of a two-stage fully reusable space shuttle. (Illustration courtesy of Dennis Jenkins) Low Has Reservations George Low, at that time still NASA acting administrator, reluctantly approved ...

epub |eng | | Author:Erik Seedhouse & Anthony Brickhouse & Kimberly Szathmary & E. David Williams

4.6.2.1 Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery Another procedure to correct cataracts is laser surgery, more commonly known as LASIK1 (◘ Fig. 4.13). This procedure, which is approved by the FDA, requires the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stefania Paladini

6.2 International Relations and Space Governance When scholars of international relations (IR) come to talk about space, their approach is rather clear, and the following quote, by Lieberman, exemplifies how ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Alexander Rose

* * * — IN CONTRAST, THE flight to Japan was easy and the Graf Zeppelin was everywhere greeted with fulsome acclamation. Wrote a reporter rapturously, the airship “glinted in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Layla S. Mayboudi [Layla S. Mayboudi]

FIGURE 99 The MC Projection: (a) schematic (left), and (b) 3D visualization of the sectional view (right) (drawings created using Solid Edge CAD tool). FIGURE 100 The MC Projection world ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michel van Pelt

Hypersatellites and star shades Over the relatively short history of spaceflight, several concepts for more substantial satellites have nevertheless been dreamed up. Interestingly, whereas the most ambitious and largest ideas ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ulrich Walter

epub |eng | 2015-06-04 | Author:Scott Sacknoff [Leonard David and Scott Sacknoff]

Accredited Aerospace Degree Programs (Courtesy: Council of Higher Education Accreditation) Astronautical Engineering Capitol College Laurel, Maryland http://www.captechu.edu/academics /undergraduate-academics/bachelor-degree-programs/astronautical-engineering Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California http://www.nps.edu/Academics/Schools/GSEAS/ Departments/SpaceSystems/index.html Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-21 | Author:Losik Ph.D, Len [Losik Ph.D, Len]

W hen recording PCM telemetry, it is important to ensure that the recorder provides sufficient frequency response to capture and reproduce the PCM signal. The following general rules may be ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Bektas, Metin [Bektas, Metin]

------------------------------------- Example 17: Many science fiction movies feature rotating space stations in shape of a torus. The idea behind this is that the centrifugal force produced by the rotation would ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jacob G. Oakley

Non-cyber Threat to Mission In a non-cyber sense, the greatest threat to successful jamming of another receiver by an emitting payload is that once jamming begins, the target can take ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joseph N. Pelton

Licensing, Launching and Operation of Space Systems and Coordination of Radio Frequencies in Earth Orbit Unlike the case of the protozone , there is currently some 60 years of experience ...

epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Andrew Dow [Dow, Andrew]

Assuming that George Brown’s account of the conversation is accurate, it was clearly not the whole story. It could not be assumed that Bristol Siddeley had spare capacity, as in ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Peter Westwick [Westwick, Peter]

Once the planform was set, the next step was to add volume to the aircraft. The ideal shape to minimize radar cross section is an infinitely thin flat plate. A ...