space faq references archive name space references last modified date references on specific areas publishers of space astronomy material astronomical society of the pacific th avenue san francisco ca more expensive but better organized slide sets cambridge university press east th street new york ny crawford peters aeronautica p o box san diego ca an excellent source of all kinds of space publications they publish a number of catalogs including aviation and space aviation and space space and related titles european southern observatory information and photographic service dr r m west karl scharzschild strasse d garching bei munchen frg slide sets posters photographs conference proceedings finley holiday film corporation east philadelphia street whittier california films wide selection of apollo shuttle viking and voyager slides at cents slide call for a catalog hansen planetarium utah said to hold sales on old slide sets look in sky telescope for contact info lunar and planetary institute nasa road one houston tx technical geology oriented slide sets with supporting booklets john wiley sons third avenue new york ny sky publishing corporation po box belmont ma offers sky catalogue on pc floppy with information including parallax for stars roger wheate geography dept university of calgary alberta canada t n n fax wheate uncamult bitnet offers a slide set called mapping the planets illustrating recent work in planetary cartography comes with a booklet and information on getting your own copies of the maps canadian shipping included superintendent of documents us government printing office washington dc univelt inc p o box san diego ca publishers for the american astronomical society us naval observatory usno bulletin board via modem general willmann bell p o box richmond virginia usa est m f careers in the space industry in the princeton planetary society published the first edition of space jobs the guide to careers in space related fields the publication was enormously successful we distributed copies to space enthusiasts across the country and even sent a few to people in great britain australia and ecuador due to the tremendous response to the first edition pps has published an expanded up to date second edition of the guide the page publication boasts listings for summer and full time job opportunities as well as graduate school programs the second edition of space jobs features strategies for entering the space field and describes positions at consulting and engineering firms nasa and non profit organizations the expanded special section on graduate schools highlights a myriad of programs ranging from space manufacturing to space policy additional sections include tips on becoming an astronaut and listings of nasa space grant fellowships and consortia as well as nasa centers for the commercial development of space to order send check or money order made payable to princeton planetary society for per copy plus per copy for shipping and handling non us customers send an international money order payable in us dollars to princeton planetary society west college princeton university princeton nj dc x single stage to orbit ssto program sdi s ssrt single stage rocket technology project has funded a suborbital technology demonstrator called dc x that should fly in mid further development towards an operational single stage to orbit vehicle called delta clipper is uncertain at present an collection of pictures and files relating to dc x is available by anonymous ftp or email server in the directory bongo cc utexas edu pub delta clipper chris w johnson chrisj emx cc utexas edu maintains the archive how to name a star after a person official names are decided by committees of the international astronomical union and are not for sale there are purely commercial organizations which will for a fee send you pretty certificates and star maps describing where to find your star these organizations have absolutely no standing in the astronomical community and the names they assign are not used by anyone else it s also likely that you won t be able to see your star without binoculars or a telescope see the back pages of astronomy or other amateur astronomy publications for contact info one such organization may be found at international star registry wilson road ingleside il this is not an endorsement of isr llnl great exploration the llnl great exploration a plan for an on the cheap space station lunar base and mars mission using inflatable space structures excited a lot of interest on the net and still comes up from time to time some references cited during net discussion were avation week jan for an article on the overall great exploration nasa assessment of the llnl space exploration proposal and llnl responses by dr lowell wood llnl doc no ss their address is po box livermore ca the nasa authors are unknown briefing slides of a presentation to the nrc last december may be available write llnl and ask conceptual design study for modular inflatable space structures a final report for purchase order b by ilc dover inc i don t know how to get this except from llnl or ilc dover i don t have an address for ilc lunar prospector lunar exploration inc lei is a non profit corporation working on a privately funded lunar polar orbiter lunar prospector is designed to perform a geochemical survey and search for frozen volatiles at the poles a set of reference files describing the project is available in ames arc nasa gov pub space lei lunar science and activities grant h heiken david t vaniman and bevan m french editors lunar sourcebook a user s guide to the moon cambridge university press isbn hardcover expensive a one volume encyclopedia of essentially everything known about the moon reviewing current knowledge in considerable depth with copious references heavy emphasis on geology but a lot more besides including considerable discussion of past lunar missions and practical issues relevant to future mission design the reference book for the moon all others are obsolete wendell mendell ed lunar bases and space activities of the st century every serious student of lunar bases must have this book bill higgins available from lunar and planetary institute nasa road one houston tx if you want to order books call thomas a mutch geology of the moon a stratigraphic view princeton university press information about the lunar orbiter missions including maps of the coverage of the lunar nearside and farside by various orbiters orbiting earth satellite histories a list of earth orbiting satellites that are still in orbit is available by anonymous ftp in ames arc nasa gov pub space faq satellites spacecraft models space in miniature gemini by michael j mackowski waterwood lane st louis mo only pp but enough pictures diagrams to interest more than just the modelling community i feel marco s miniatures of dracut mass have produced a skylab in an edition of a lunar rover same scale as monogram and revell lunar modules in a similar edition prices are for skylab for lrv check with them for postage etc i have no connection with them but have found their service to be good and their stock of rare old kits is impressive prices range from reasonable for monogram scale apollo csm with cutaway details to spectacular for airfix vostok four star collectibles p o box dracut mass usa voyager hst viking lunar rover etc kits from lunar models grisham rowlett texas as reviewed by bob kaplow peter alway s book scale model rocketry is now available mine arrived in the mail earlier this week to get your own copy send s h total to peter alway pittsfield ann arbor mi the book includes information on collecting scale data construction of scale models and several handy tables appendicies include plans for sport scale models a d region tomahawk bt a v bt and a aerobee a bt i ve only begun to study the book but it certainly will be a valuable data source for many modellers most vehicles include several paragraphs of text describing the missions flown by the rocket various specs including nar engine classification along with a dimensioned drawing color layouts paint pattern and a black white photograph the vehicles included are the aerobee a aerobee aerobee hi arcas asp astrobee astrobee d atlas centaur atlas agena atlas score baby wac d region tomahawk deacon rockoon delta b delta e gemini titan ii iris javelin juno juno little joe little joe mercury atlas mercury redstone nike apache nike asp nike cajun nike deacon nike tomahawk ram b saturn block saturn block saturn b saturn scout standard aerobee terrapin thor able titan iii c titan iii e trailblazer v vanguard viking model viking model and wac corporal rocket propulsion george p sutton rocket propulsion elements th edn wiley interscience isbn pricey textbook the best nearly the only modern introduction to the technical side of rocketry a good place to start if you want to know the details not for the math shy straight chemical rockets essentially nothing on more advanced propulsion although earlier editions reportedly had some coverage dieter k huzel and david h huang design of liquid propellant rocket engines nasa sp ntis n pc a mf a p out of print reproductions may be obtained through the ntis expensive the complete and authoritative guide to designing liquid fuel engines reference in most chapters of sutton heavy emphasis on practical issues what works and what doesn t what the typical values of the fudge factors are stiff reading massive detail written for rocket engineers by rocket engineers spacecraft design brij n agrawal design of geosynchronous spacecraft prentice hall isbn james r wertz ed spacecraft attitude determination and control kluwer isbn p r k chetty satellite technology and its applications mcgraw hill isbn james r wertz and wiley j larson editors space mission analysis and design kluwer academic publishers dordrecht boston london isbn paperback or hardback this looks at system level design of a spacecraft rather than detailed design chapters appendices about pages it leads the reader through the mission design and system level design of a fictitious earth observation satellite to illustrate the principles that it tries to convey warning although the book is chock full of many useful reference tables some of the numbers in at least one of those tables launch costs for various launchers appear to be quite wrong can be ordered by telephone using a credit card kluwer s phone number is cost esoteric propulsion schemes solar sails lasers fusion this needs more and more up to date references but it s a start antimatter antiproton annihilation propulsion robert forward afrpl tr from the air force rocket propulsion laboratory afrpl xrx stop edwards air force base ca ntis ad a pc a mf a pc paper copy a us or maybe price code mf microfiche a us technical study on making holding and using antimatter for near term years propulsion systems excellent bibliography forward is the best known proponent of antimatter this also may be available as udr tr from the contractor the university of dayton research institute and dtic ad a from the defense technical information center defense logistics agency cameron station alexandria va and it s also available from the ntis with yet another number advanced space propulsion study antiproton and beamed power propulsion robert forward afal tr from the air force astronautics laboratory dtic ad a ntis ad a pc a mf a summarizes the previous paper goes into detail on beamed power systems including pellet microwave and laser beamed power systems for intersteller transport a design for a near relativistic laser pushed lightsail using near term laser technology a survey of laser thermal propulsion tether transportation systems antiproton annihilation propulsion exotic applications of solar sails and laser pushed interstellar lightsails the status of antiproton annihilation propulsion as of and the prospects for obtaining antimatter ions heavier than antiprotons again there is an extensive bibliography application of antimatter electric power to interstellar propulsion g d nordley jbis interstellar studies issue of bussard ramjets and related methods g l matloff and a j fennelly interstellar applications and limitations of several electrostatic electromagnetic ion collection techniques jbis n h langston the erosion of interstellar drag screens jbis c powell flight dynamics of the ram augmented interstellar rocket jbis a r martin the effects of drag on relativistic spacefight jbis fusion a laser fusion rocket for interplanetary propulsion roderick hyde llnl report ucrl contact the technical information dept at livermore fusion pellet design fuel selection energy loss mechanisms pellet compression metrics thrust chamber magnetic nozzle shielding tritium breeding thermal modeling fusion driver lasers particle beams etc heat rejection vehicle summary mass estimates vehicle performance interstellar travel required exhaust velocities at the limit of fusion s capability interplanetary missions are limited by power weight ratio trajectory modeling typical mission profiles references including the report in jbis project daedalus and several on icf and driver technology fusion as electric propulsion robert w bussard journal of propulsion and power vol no sept oct fusion rocket engines are analyzed as electric propulsion systems with propulsion thrust power input power ratio the thrust power gain g t much greater than unity gain values of conventional solar fission electric propulsion systems are always quite small e g g t with these high thrust interplanetary flight is not possible because system acceleration a t capabilities are always less than the local gravitational acceleration in contrast gain values times higher are found for some fusion concepts which offer high thrust flight capability one performance example shows a day powered coast one way transit time with payload for a single stage earth mars vehicle another shows the potential for high acceleration a t g o flight in earth moon space the qed engine system direct electric fusion powered systems for aerospace flight propulsion by robert w bussard emc available from energy matter conversion corp a center street manassas va this is an introduction to the application of bussard s version of the farnsworth hirsch electrostatic confinement fusion technology to propulsion isp sec farnsworth hirsch demonstrated a neutron flux with their device back in but it was dropped when panic ensued over the surprising stability of the soviet tokamak hirsch responsible for the panic has recently recanted and is back working on qed jim bowery plasmaktm star power for energy intensive space applications by paul m koloc eight ans topical meeting on technology of fusion energy special issue fusion technology march aneutronic energy fusion with little or negligible neutron flux requires plasma pressures and stable confinement times larger than can be delivered by current approaches if plasma pressures appropriate to burn times on the order of milliseconds could be achieved in aneutronic fuels then high power densities and very compact realtively clean burning engines for space and other special applications would be at hand the plasmaktm innovation will make this possible its unique pressure efficient structure exceptional stability fluid mechanically compressible mantle and direct inductive mhd electric power conversion advantages are described peak burn densities of tens of megawats per cc give it compactness even in the multi gigawatt electric output size engineering advantages indicate a rapid development schedule at very modest cost i strongly recommend that people take this guy seriously bob hirsch the primary proponent of the tokamak has recently declared koloc s plasmaktm precursor the spheromak to be one of promising fusion technologies that should be pursued rather than tokamak aside from the preceeding appeal to authority the plasmaktm looks like it finally models ball lightning with solid mhd physics jim bowery ion drives retrieve files pub space spacelink from the ames space archive these deal with many aspects of ion drives and describe the sert i and ii missions which flight tested cesium ion thrusters in the s and s there are numerous references mass drivers coilguns railguns ieee transactions on magnetics for example v no january issue every so often they publish the proceedings of the symposium on electromagnetic launcher technology including hundreds of papers on the subject it s a good look at the state of the art though perhaps not a good tutorial for beginners anybody know some good review papers nuclear rockets fission technical notes on nuclear rockets by bruce w knight and donald kingsbury unpublished may be available from donald kingsbury math dept mcgill university po box station a montreal quebec m c g canada solar sails starsailing solar sails and interstellar travel louis friedman wiley new york pp paper not very technical but an adequate overview roundtrip interstellar travel using laser pushed lightsails journal of spacecraft and rockets vol pp jan feb tethers tethers and asteroids for artificial gravity assist in the solar system by p a penzo and h l mayer journal of spacecraft and rockets for jan feb details how a spacecraft with a kevlar tether of the same mass can change its velocity by up to slightly less than km sec if it is travelling under that velocity wrt a suitable asteroid general alternate propulsion energy sources robert forward afprl tr ntis ad b pc a mf a dec p keywords propulsion energy metastable helium free radical hydrogen solar pumped sic plasmas antiproton annihiliation ionospheric lasers solar sails perforated sails microwave sails quantum fluctuations antimatter rockets it s a wide if not deep look at exotic energy sources which might be useful for space propulsion it also considers various kinds of laser propulsion metallic hydrogen tethers and unconventional nuclear propulsion the bibliographic information pointing to the research on all this stuff belongs on every daydreamer s shelf future magic dr robert l forward avon isbn nontechnical discussion of tethers antimatter gravity control and even futher out topics spy satellites deep black by william burrows best modern general book for spysats a base for debate the us satellite station at nurrungar des ball allen and unwin australia isbn covers dsp early warning satellites pine gap australia and the us geostationary signals intelligence satellite program des ball allen and unwin australia isbn covers rhyolite aquacade chalet vortex and magnum signals intelligence satellites guardians strategic reconnaissance satellites curtis peebles ian allan isbn good on mol military salyut and soviet satellites less so on others tends to believe what he s told so flaws in discussion of dsp rhyolite et al america s secret eyes in space the keyhole spy satellite program jeffrey richelson harper and row isbn in a class of its own the historical reference on the keyhole satellites secret sentries in space philip j klass long out of print but well worth a look space shuttle computer systems j communications of the acm v n d september k special issue on space shuttle computers a myron kayton t avionics for manned spacecraft j ieee transactions on aerospace and electronic systems v n d november p other various aiaa and ieee publications computers in spaceflight the nasa experience james e tomayko seti computation signal processing a d k cullers a ivan r linscott a bernard m oliver t signal processing in seti j communications of the acm v n d november p k cr categories and subject descriptors d operating systems process management concurrency i pattern recognition applications signal processing j phsyical sciences and engineering astronomy general terms design additional key words and phrases digital fourier transforms finite impulse response filters interstellar communications search for extra terrestrial intelligence signal detection spectrum analysis amateur satellies weather satellites a fairly long writeup on receiving and interpreting weather satellite photos is available from the ames space archive in pub space faq weatherphotos the american radio relay league publication service offers the following references also see the section on amsat in the space groups segment of the faq arrl satellite experimenters handbook arrl weather satellite handbook ibm pc software for weather satellite handbook amsat na th space symposium amsat na th space symposium shipping is extra the american radio relay league publications department main street newington ct tides srinivas bettadpur contributed a writeup on tides available from the ames space archive in pub space faq tides it covers the following areas d example of tidal deformation treatment of tidal fields in practice long term evolution of the earth moon system under tides the writeup refers to the following texts geophysical geodesy by k lambeck tides of the planet earth by p melchior next faq constants and equations for calculations
