Ballistic missile and space vehicle systems. [John Wiley & Sons, Xew York, 1961, 526 pp ]
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JOURNAL:
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Computing Reviews,
4(2),
74 -
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YEAR:
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1963
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PUB TYPE:
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Book Review
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SUBJECT(S):
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING AND SPACE
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DISCIPLINE:
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Computer Science
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-426-969
(Last edited on
2006/05/27 13:18:08 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
This text was synthesized from notes prepared for use in the course, "Ballistic Missile and Space Vehicle Systems," given in 1959-60 at the University of California, Los Angeles. The lectures were also filmed and made available in 16 mm form to industrial and educational institutions.
For those interested in obtaining elementary information on propulsion, liquid and solid propellant engines, nuclear and plasma propulsion, flight dynamics, vehicle design, structures, dynamic analysis, performance, trajectory analysis, control and guidance systems, and general system integration, the book serves a useful purpose.
The text purposely avoids such relevant systems topics as biomedicine, human performance engineering, space physics, and communications. The authors, twenty in all, and the editors were successful in producing an integrated document which reads well, particularly for those whose main interest is to obtain an introduction to fundamentals of ballistic missiles and space vehicles. The preface points out that "engineering design aspects of vehicle mechanical systems are stressed;" however, the reader is cautioned that the information is, in the opinion of the reviewer and his associates [at Northrop Corporation], insufficient to actually design a vehicle. The design technology is very dynamic in this field and a number of new concepts have developed which could not have been included in the 1959-60 lecture series.
Each chapter permits a listing of references, yet six of the twenty have no bibliography and nine others list only eight or fewer sources. For the avid reader studying the subject area, the individual authors tend to constrain him from detailed examination.
It is hoped that the 1963 lecture series, "Lunar Missions and Exploration," will quickly find its way into print.
L.C. Silvern, Hawthorne, Calif.
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