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Spacecraft Systems Engineering Handbook: Design, Integration, and Modern Practice

by Thalen R. Ashford
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798187821204
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 486
  • Original Price: GBP 50.39
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1116 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Aeronautics & Astronautics

The engineering knowledge required to design a spacecraft is spread across dozens of specialist textbooks, standards documents, and conference proceedings - each excellent within its discipline, none connecting the whole.

This handbook closes that gap.

Twenty chapters develop every major spacecraft subsystem at working-engineer depth - governing equations derived, not just stated; numerical examples carried to computed results; and cross-references that trace every output to the inputs it feeds in every adjacent chapter. A single spacecraft - a 1,500 kg Earth observation satellite in Sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km - runs as the worked example throughout, so every formula lands on real numbers and every result is traceable across the full design.

Coverage includes:

  • Space environment: radiation dose, plasma charging, atomic oxygen flux, thermal cycling, and debris risk - and how each constrains every subsystem that follows
  • Orbital mechanics and mission analysis: vis-viva equation, eclipse fraction, nodal regression, constellation design
  • Chemical and electric propulsion sizing: specific impulse trades, propellant mass computation, and the power-transfer time tradeoff for all-electric platforms
  • Electrical power systems: solar array sizing and degradation, battery management, power conditioning architecture, eclipse and sunlit mode budgets
  • Attitude determination and control: disturbance torque analysis, sensor and actuator selection, linearised control laws
  • Structures: launch load cases, natural frequency requirements, material selection, ECSS-compliant design margins
  • Thermal control: coating selection, MLI sizing, radiator area, heater allocation, eclipse-sunlit cycling
  • Telecommunications: link budget development, Friis transmission equation, noise temperature, uplink and downlink margin
  • Telemetry, command, and on-board data handling; EMC and ECSS-compliant verification; AIV test sequencing and model philosophy
  • Small satellite and CubeSat systems engineering at genuine design depth - subsystem selection under real mass, power, and volume constraints
  • Model-based systems engineering: SysML architecture modelling, interface control, requirement traceability, digital twin integration

Both heritage-qualified and commercial new space practice - reusable launch vehicles, rideshare, mega-constellation operations, software-defined ground infrastructure - are addressed throughout. ECSS and CCSDS standards provide the governing framework where they apply.

For engineers entering spacecraft programmes or transitioning into systems roles; graduate students seeking a comprehensive systems-level reference; and practitioners who need one structured resource that connects every discipline and every decision.

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