Research & information: general books

A Fourier analysis method was developed to analyze harmonic forced-oscillation data at high angles of attack as...  Read More >>

Examined is a methodology for hardware verification developed by Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in...  Read More >>

The primary objective of this investigation is to develop a method to solve for spacecraft attitude in the presence...  Read More >>

A high power single spatial mode channeled substrate planar AlGaAs semiconductor diode laser was developed. The...  Read More >>

The primary purpose of this study was to measure the effects of inflow-produced heat turbulence on heat transfer...  Read More >>

The accumulation of JPL data on Single Event Phenomena (SEP), from 1979 to August 1986, is presented in full report...  Read More >>

Work completed under the Human Transportation System Study is summarized. This study was conducted by the New Initiatives...  Read More >>

The objective of this program was to define the aerodynamic design and manufacturing coordinates for an advanced...  Read More >>

During the last phase of the project, emphasis has changed to flexible space robotics, by mutual agreement between...  Read More >>

Methods for calculating cross sections for the breakup of high-energy heavy ions by the combined nuclear and coulomb...  Read More >>

A High Volume Data Storage Architecture Analysis was conducted. The results, presented in this report, will be applied...  Read More >>

This report describes the data collection and requirements analysis effort of the Ground System Development Environment...  Read More >>

Three candidate hybrid propulsion (HP) concepts were identified, optimized, evaluated, and refined through an iterative...  Read More >>

Although the aircraft checklist has long been regarded as the foundation of pilot standardization and cockpit safety,...  Read More >>

In order to create a mission model of the high altitude ozone research balloon (HAORB) several options for flight...  Read More >>

A fractional-step splitting scheme breaks the full Navier-Stokes equations into explicit and implicit portions amenable...  Read More >>

This report considers a general parallel interference cancellation scheme that significantly reduces the degradation...  Read More >>

The research reported here describes the process of induction of various mental states. Our goals were to measure...  Read More >>

The results of the Independent Orbiter Assessment (IOA) of the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Critical...  Read More >>

Effort was dedicated to development and testing of a formal strategy for reconciling uncertain test data with physically...  Read More >>

Space vehicles, such as the Space Shuttle, require intensive ground support prior to, during, and after each mission....  Read More >>

A preliminary experimental investigation was conducted to study two crossing, glancing shock waves of equal strengths,...  Read More >>

The results of the Independent Orbiter Assessment (IOA) of the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Critical...  Read More >>

An introduction to the fundamentals of total and partial pressure measurement in the vacuum regime (760 x 10 to...  Read More >>

This 1995 report updates the findings and recommendations of the 1989 report and reflects the authors' progress...  Read More >>