Astronautics books

Brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school ""Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow""....  Read More >>

Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy...  Read More >>

This text provides a complete survey of the astrophysics of planetary nebulae, including theory and observations....  Read More >>

In view of the highly dynamical and turbulent state of the interstellar medium, hot and cold temperature ?uctuations...  Read More >>

The aim of this book is twofold: to provide an introduction for newcomers to state of the art computer simulation...  Read More >>

All typical and special modal and response analysis methods, applied within the frame of the design of spacecraft...  Read More >>

The aim of the meeting was to survey the current knowledge on two main topics: (i) propagation of plasma waves (like...  Read More >>

It incorporates these concepts into an analysis of complex phenomena including the sun and solar activity, shocks,...  Read More >>

For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information...  Read More >>

Digital sky surveys, high-precision astrometry from satellite data, deep-space data from orbiting telescopes, and...  Read More >>

TO THE SECOND EDITION In the nine years since this book was first written, rapid progress has been made scientifically...  Read More >>

This fascinating book provides an accessible introduction to solar sails and details how they work and what they...  Read More >>

Plasma Physics - Basic Theory with Fusion Applications presents a thorough treatment of plasma physics, beginning...  Read More >>

Physics of Planetary Rings describes striking structures of the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and...  Read More >>

Our purpose in writing this book is to show how physics has been applied to developing our current understanding...  Read More >>

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the in­ dustrial revolution, is once again...  Read More >>

This book was conceived during the Workshop ""Calibration and Orientation of Cameras in Computer Vision"" at the...  Read More >>

Offers an introduction to practical astrometry, dealing with the determination of positions, motions, distances...  Read More >>

Such simulations may be very important not only for the study of the astrophysical plasmas, but also for the study...  Read More >>

Alexeyev, who was the first in the world to develop the largest ground effect machine - Ekranoplan. The term extreme...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 4th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Santiago de Compostela,...  Read More >>

New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS,...  Read More >>

Contains proceedings of the ""Cores to Clusters"" workshop held at Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto...  Read More >>

Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from sky surveys which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early...  Read More >>

This monograph collects and critically reviews the main results obtained by the scientific community in gyroscope...  Read More >>