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Advances in aerospace technologies have set new standards in the modern world and have become the benchmark for innovations in various fields. This special collection covers aspects of research in aerodynamics, aerospace structures and materials, propulsion, aerospace design, flight performance, system performance, aerospace management and operation, space systems and aerospace reviews. Review from Book News Inc.: The bi-annual conference was founded in Malaysia in 2005 as a platform for the regional aerospace communities to gather and share recent developments, but it is now attracting partic

Astronautics --- Aeronautics --- Space sciences --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Technological innovations --- Aerospace technologies --- AEROTECH

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"NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission "in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid Science Team and science data access. The Euclid mission will employ a space telescope that will make potentially important contributions to probing dark energy and to the measurement of cosmological parameters. Euclid will image a large fraction of the extragalactic sky at unprecedented resolution and measure spectra for millions of galaxies. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid evaluates whether a small investment in Euclid (around 20 million dollars in hardware) is a viable part of an overall strategy to pursue the science goals set forth in New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, a decadal plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics. The top-ranked large-scale, space-based priority of the New Worlds, New Horizons is the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST has a broad, wide-field, near-infrared capability that will serve a wide variety of science programs of U.S. astronomers, including exoplanet research, near-infrared sky surveys, a guest observer program, and dark energy research. In carrying out this study the authoring committee's intent has been to be clear that this report does not alter New Worlds, New Horizon's plans for the implementation of the survey's priorities. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid concludes that the NASA proposal would represent a valuable first step toward meeting one of the science goals (furthering dark energy research) of WFIRST. While WFIRST dark energy measurements are expected to be superior to Euclid's, U.S. participation in Euclid will have clear scientific, technical, and programmatic benefits to the U.S. community as WFIRST and Euclid go forward. According to this report, the current NASA proposal, to invest modestly in Euclid, is consistent with an expeditious development of WFIRST and the achievement of the broader, and more ambitious, goals outlined in New Worlds, New Horizons. Knowledge gained from the Euclid project could help optimize the science return of the WFIRST mission as well. Such an investment will further the goals of New Worlds, New Horizons, be helpful to the preparations for WFIRST, and enhance WFIRST's chances of success."--Publisher's description.

Dark matter (Astronomy) --- Astronautics. --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Nonluminous matter (Astronomy) --- Unobserved matter (Astronomy) --- Unseen matter (Astronomy) --- Interstellar matter --- Outer space --- Solar system --- Exploration. --- Exploration

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This book is an effort to explore the technical aspects associated with bird flight and migration on wings. After a short introduction on the birds migration, the book reviews the aerodynamics and Energetics of Flight and presents the calculation of the Migration Range. In addition, the authors explains aerodynamics of the formation flight and finally introduces great flight diagrams.

Aerodynamics. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Birds --- Migratory birds. --- Migration --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Engineering. --- Animal physiology. --- Fluids. --- Fluid mechanics. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Engineering Fluid Dynamics. --- Fluid- and Aerodynamics. --- Animal Physiology. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Migratory animals --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Physiology --- Aeronautical engineering --- Astronautics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Hydrostatics --- Permeability --- Hydromechanics --- Continuum mechanics

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Astronomers' Observing Guides provide up-to-date information for amateur astronomers who want to know all about what it is they are observing. This is the basis for the first part of the book. The second part details observing techniques for practical astronomers, working with a range of different instruments. Every amateur astronomer sees "stars" that aren't natural objects steadily slide across the background of the sky. Artificial satellites can be seen on any night, and some are as bright as the planets. But can you identify which satellite or spent launch vehicle casing you are seeing? Do you know how to image it? Artificial Satellites and How to Observe Them describes all of the different satellites that can be observed, including communication, scientific, spy satellites, and of course, the International Space Station. Richard Schmude describes how to recognize them and even how to predict their orbits. The book tells how to observe artificial satellites with the unaided eye, binoculars and with telescopes. Many images of artificial satellites taken from Earth are included. Artificial satellites have changed since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Several additional countries have launched them. And amateur astronomers have utilized digital cameras to image satellites to a resolution of about 1 meter. Readers of astronomy magazines are aware of these developments but will want to get the complete story. Here it is! Artificial Satellites and How to Observe Them is a detailed and up-to-date overview of artificial satellites. Amateur astronomers will even find out how to make useful scientific observations and join the worldwide community of satellite observers, both professional and amateur,  and how to log their work. Here is a volume that should be a welcome addition to any amateur astronomer's personal library. With it in hand, you can begin sampling right away some of the most interesting manmade objects in the sky.

Artificial satellites -- Atmospheric entry. --- Artificial satellites -- Earth -- Orbits -- Congresses. --- Artificial satellites. --- Artificial satellites --- Mechanical Engineering --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Astronomy - General --- Astronautics. --- Earth satellites --- Orbiting vehicles --- Satellite vehicles --- Satellites, Artificial --- Physics. --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy --- Astronomy. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Observations. --- Space vehicles --- Anti-satellite weapons --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical

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Rocketing into the Future journeys into the exciting world of rocket planes, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last one hundred years. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 photographs, it recounts the history of rocket planes from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets on to their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The book then looks at the possibilities for the future. The technological and economic challenges of the Space Shuttle proved insurmountable, and thus the program was unable to fulfill its promise of low-cost access to space. However, the burgeoning market of suborbital space tourism may yet give the necessary boost to the development of a truly reusable spaceplane.

Rocketry -- History. --- Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History. --- Space vehicles -- History. --- Rocket planes --- Rockets (Aeronautics) --- Space flight --- Mechanical Engineering --- Business & Economics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Transportation Economics --- History --- Technological innovations --- Aeronautics --- Flight --- Astronautics --- History. --- Engineering. --- Space sciences. --- Astronomy. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. --- Astrophysics. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Space sciences --- Astrodynamics --- Space vehicles --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science --- Aeronautical engineering --- Engineering