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The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.416
EAN: 9780691102993
Edition: Rev Exp
ISBN: 0691102996
Label: Princeton University Press
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press
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Editorial Review:The breakup of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it reentered Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, reminded the public--and NASA--of the grave risks posed to spacecraft by everything from insulating foam to space debris. Here, Alan Tribble presents a singular, up-to-date account of a wide range of less conspicuous but no less consequential environmental effects that can damage or cause poor performance of orbiting spacecraft. Conveying a wealth of insight into the nature of the space environment and how spacecraft interact with it, he covers design modifications aimed at eliminating or reducing such environmental effects as solar absorptance increases caused by self-contamination, materials erosion by atomic oxygen, electrical discharges due to spacecraft charging, degradation of electrical circuits by radiation, and bombardment by micrometeorites. This book is unique in that it bridges the gap between studies of the space environment as performed by space physicists and spacecraft design engineering as practiced by aerospace engineers.
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Rating: - A useful reference
Tribble supplies a good overview of environmental effects on spacecraft. That includes the consequences of being in a vacuum, interactions with neutral particles, plasma interactions (including spacecraft charging), radiation (total dose and single event effects) and hypervelocity impacts. That basically covers the whole field (unless you want to include weightlessness).
This book packs a large amount of information, including micrometeoroid fluxes, all sorts of radiation fluxes, nominal ... Read More
Rating:  - Pretty good text for Space Environment Interactions
I wouldn't call this text amazing, but it is certainly adequate. I used this book for a graduate level course in space environment interactions mostly because there was a lack of other resources available. This book gives a decent overview, without getting too bogged down with the physics involved. However, the professor had to pull a large chunk of his material from other sources (out of print sources) because Tribble is a little to basic. As an aerospace engineer, I don't care so much about the EE ... Read More
Rating: - AMAZING!!
I bought this book along with about 7 others like it and this was only one of two that were great at explaining everything in words a high school student would understand! This book is amazing and after taking AP Chemistry and Physics it has become even more useful! If you want to design the fuselages of spacecraft this is a must buy! Also Alan Tribble has written a few other good books I have seen.
Rating: - Excellent.
This book is one of the best I have found on the topic of a spacecraft's environment. It provides an introduction the many environments one finds with launch, various orbits and deep space missions. The physic of space are presented with enough detail that the engineer involved in spacecraft design gains an understanding of the environments that are encountered in space. The excellent references at the end of each chapter allow the reader to study the topic in more depth when needed. The book is written ... Read More
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