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This text is drawn from the author's years of experience in spacecraft design culminating in his leadership of the Magellan Venus orbiter spacecraft design from concept through launch. The work also benefits from his years of teaching spacecraft design at Colorado University and for AIAA as a home study short course.
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Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Elements of Spacecraft Design Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics This page intentionally left blank Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Elements of Spacecraft Design Charles D. Brown Wren Software, Inc. Castle Rock, Colorado &AL1A EDUCATION SERIES J. S. Przemieniecki Series Editor-in-Chief Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA 20191-4344 Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., Reston, Virginia 1 2 3 4 5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brown, Charles D., 1930Elements of spacecraft design / Charles D. Brown. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Space vehicles—Design and construction. I. Title. TL875 .B76 2002 629.47—dc21 2002010232 ISBN 1-56347-524-3 (alk. paper) Copyright © 2002 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Data and information appearing in this book are for informational purposes only. AIAA is not responsible for any injury or damage resulting from use or reliance, nor does AIAA warrant that use or reliance will be free from privately owned rights. Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA Education Series Editor-in-Chief John S. Przemieniecki Air Force Institute of Technology (retired) Editorial Advisory Board Daniel J. Biezad California Polytechnic State University Robert G. Loewy Georgia Institute of Technology Aaron R. Byerley U.S. Air Force Academy Michael Mohaghegh The Boeing Company Kajal K. Gupta NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Dora Musielak TRW, Inc. John K. Harvey Imperial College Conrad F. Newberry Naval Postgraduate School David K. Holger Iowa State University David K. Schmidt University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Rakesh K. Kapania Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Peter J. Turchi Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian Landrum University of Alabama, Huntsville David M. Van Wie J°hns Hopkins University Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics This page intentionally left blank Purchased from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foreword The latest text by Charles Brown, Elements of Spacecraft Design, complements his other two texts, Spacecraft Mission Design and Spacecraft Propulsion, previously published in this series. This new text starts first with a comprehensive discussion of the conceptual stages of mission design, systems engineering, and orbital mechanics, all of which provide the basis for the design process for different components and functions. Included are propulsion and power systems, structures, attitude control, thermal control, command and data systems, and telecommunications. This text evolved from the spacecraft design course taught by the author for many years at the University of Colorado. The autho