Recommended reading
From CSTART Wiki
- Spacecraft Structure at answers.com
- Current and Future Techniques for Spacecraft Thermal Control at ESA
- NASA manuals for Mercury and Gemini spacecraft
- File:Struct Conf CEV.pdf Structural Configuration Analysis of Crew Exploration Vehicle - (AIAA 2006-2802)
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[edit] General rocketry reading
- File:LEO on the cheap.pdf LEO On the Cheap
- Department of Defence Documents server for MIL handbooks
- The DH-1: A new direction to space
- How to get to space
- Easy to read, descriptive article on rocketry
- Rocket engine at Wikipedia
- Rocket propellant at Wikipedia
- Solid fuel rocket at Wikipedia
- Liquid fuel rocket at Wikipedia
- Liquid rocket propellants at Wikipedia
- Data and Resources at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
- Nozzle Design at NASA
[edit] Hybrid rocketry reading
[edit] Spacecraft propulsion reading
[edit] RCS reading
Suggesting reading for those wanting to contribute to the Navigation and Guidance Workgroup.
[edit] Orbital mechanics reading
[edit] Some basics
[edit] General references
[edit] Kinds of orbits and how to achieve them
[edit] Approximations and numerical algorithms
[edit] Textbooks / manuals
- Dynamical Systems, the Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design (free .pdf textbook, largely about low energy transfer orbits)
- Trajectories in the Earth-Moon Space with Symmetrical Free Return Properties (NASA technical note)
[edit] Navigation reading
[edit] Theory
- An Introduction to Inertial Navigation (technical report)
- Inertial Navigation - Forty Years of Evolution (article)
