doug@sis.uucp (doug berry) (01/11/90)
Sheridan College presents:
Spacecraft Systems Design and Engineering
a Satelite Telecourse produced by The University of Maryland
Date: Feb 14 and 15 1990
Location: Sheridan Colege, 1430 Trafalgar Rd, Oakville Ont.
Contact: Gord Wyatt 849-2872
This course will be delivered live by satellite television
Coures Outline
1. INTRODUCTION TO SPACECRAFT DESIGN
* Elements of astro dynamics, the space envirenment, and space
systems engineering
* solar system geography and coordinate systems
* mission design and analysis
* system design and tradeoff analysis
* flight examples
2. SPACE VEHICLE FLIGHT MECHANICS
* Fundamentals of rocket propulsion and flight performance
analysis
* Launch vehicles and upper stages
* secondary propulsion systems
* Advanced concepts
* Atmospheric entry including ballistic, skip, equilibrium
glide, and aerobraking trajectories
* Elements of guidance, navigation and control
3. TRACKING, TELEMETRY AND COMMAND
* Spacacraft tracking techniques and systems
* Command, telemetry, and onboard data handling and processing
* communications in noise, link margin, data rate, antenna
beamwidth, and articulation control
4. SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND CONTROL
* ridgid body rotational dynamics and flexible body effects
* Coordinate systems and mathematical representations of
spacecraft orientation
* Attitude determination and control concepts, procedures
algorithms, components and performance
5. SPACE POWER SYSTEMS
* Power generation including battery, photovoltaic, solar
thermal, fuel cell, radioisotope thermoelectric, and nuclear
reactor systems
* Power conditioning
* Electromagnetic compatibility
6. CONFIGURATION AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN
* Fields of view, mass properties, structural design, and stress
analysis
* Loads analysis and specification
* Deployment and articulation mechanisms
* Materials
7. THERMAL CONTROL
* Fundamentals of conductive, convective and radiative heat
transfer
* Spacecraft energy balance
* Active and passive thermal control
* Re-entry thermal loads and protection
Speakers:
JAMES R. FRENCH received a BS Mechanical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1958 to 1963 he worked
at Rocketdyne on the development and test of engines for the
Apollo/Saturn launch vehicles. In 1963 he joined TRW Systems where
he participated in the design of the Lunar Module Descent Engine
and in research on high performance propulsion systems. From 1967
to 1986, he worked at JPL on the Mariner, Viking and Voyager
programs. Mr. French was Advanced Study Manager for Planetary
Programs, and Systems Definition Manager for the SP 100 space
nuclear power plant program. He is an associate fellow of the
AIAA, a past chairman Space Systems Technical Committee, a former
member of the Support Systems Technical Committee and past
chairman of the Los Angeles section.
MICHAEL D GRIFFIN holds five degrees in Physics, Electrica
Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering from John Hopkins
University, Catholic University, University of Maryland and
University of Southern California. He has worked in spacecraft
design and mission operations at Computer Science Corporation,
JPL, and John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is a
registered professional engineer, an associate Fellow of the AIAA
Space Systems and the AAS Guidance and Control Technical
Committees. Dr. Griffen is now Deputy Director - Technology SDIO.
Registration: Call Rejeane Stagg 849-2872
Cost is $ 350.00
Payment by Cheque, VISA, or Company P.O.
Cancellations: Sheridan College and AIAA reserve the right to
cancel the program due to insufficient registrations. Participants
will be notified immediately and refunds will be issued.
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