English | 2022 | Original PDF | 120 MB | 1107 Pages
Don Edberg, Willie Costa, 1624106412, 1624106420, 9781624106415, 9781624106422, 978-1624106415, 978-1624106422
The second edition of Summerfield Book
Award winner Design of Rockets and Space Launch Vehicles is a
comprehensive treatment of important concepts and applications. It
provides enhanced understanding and exposure to practical aspects of
design, engineering, manufacturing, and testing. The subject is mature,
but the applications are changing and a new generation of engineers
and designers are joining the aerospace industry. It is primarily
intended for readers with at least a 3rd-year level knowledge of
aerospace engineering, mathematics, and physics. But because it
contains many applications and step-by-step illustrated examples along
with photographs or line drawings of actual hardware, it will also be
of interest to practicing engineers, technical managers, and others who
are interested in how rockets work in either the big picture sense, or
in areas outside one's specialty. Readers of this book will understand
“why things are done this way.” This second edition features numerous
updates throughout and new material on: current launch vehicle
developments including SLS, Starship-Superheavy, Electron, Neutron,
LauncherOne, Astra, Alpha, Vulcan, Ariane. Discussion of hybrid and
quasi-hybrid rockets, including new combustion cycles. A complete set
of equations to allow the calculation of payload mass, propellant mass,
structure mass, inert mass, and liftoff mass knowing specific impulse
and structural ratio. Information on carrying multiple payloads:
ridesharing, piggybacking. New sections on recovery and reuse,
including the physics, energy, and mass required to recover payload
fairings, 1st steps, and upper steps. A table of recovery options
including advantages & disadvantages and a simple cost analysis of
vehicle reuse.
