Astronautics and Spacecraft Design
Offers an aerospace professor's comprehensive and updated collection of spacecraft design links.
Small Satellites Home Page
Extensive collection of information on small satellites (nano-satellites and larger) and their uses.
Aerospace Systems, Concepts, and Analysis
NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Includes organization, key personnel, mission, activities branches, and space-related bulletin boards.
Discovery Program Documents
Discovery guidelines and requirements documents. Good reference collection.
NASA Parts Selection List
Provides catalogs and specifications for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts to use in space systems.
JPL Part Reliablility
Guidelines for parts selection and space reliability.COTS parts used in Space applications.
Radiation Dose, Shielding, and Modeling Reports
A few technical reports in PDF format covering space radiation dose minimization, radiation shielding concepts, radiation shield design, and dosimetry.
JPL Radiation Effects Database
RADNET-Interactive contains radiation effects test data for total ionizing dose (TID)and single event effects (SEE).
Rosetta Spacecraft Design
The Rosetta mission is an interplanetary mission whose main objective is to rendezvous with and make in-situ measurements of comet 46 P/Wirtanen. Design drivers and requirements.
Space Environments & Effects Program
NASA's space environment program. Features overview, news, flight experiements, mathematical models and publications.
Slate - Where Satellites Go When They Die
Describes the process of and planning for decommissioning and "parking" of geosynchronous satellites.
Space War
Site exploring the past, present, and future of space warfare.
Starnav 1 experiment mission web site
Starnav 1 startracker experiment that flew on STS-107 Columbia mission.
Spacecraft Technology Center at Texas A&M University
STC promotes commercially funded engineering research and technology development using the International Space Station (ISS) or other orbiting platforms as a test bed for developing and validating advanced spacecraft technology.
Applied Technology Space and Satellite Training
Offers overview of courses provided in spacecraft design for engineers and scientists.
Spacecraft
Weblog for Discussion of Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control, and News.
Satellite Communication: References
Reference papers and links.
Drag-free satellites.
Experimental gravitational physics using drag-free satellites.
Software Engineering and Standardisation Section, ESA
Provides documentation, tools and project news from the spacecraft software section of the European Space Agency.
Space Environment and Effects Section, ESA
Provides data and tools on radiation, debris and other effects on space systems in flight. Includes scientific articles and events.
Space Environment Links
Offers comprehensive directory.
The Radiation Environment
Radiation environment for space.
eclipse aerospace
Add-ons for orbiter space flight simulator created for educational purposes and includes spacecraft, satelittes, interplanetary probes and surface bases. Also competing in the virtual x-prize.
GAO Space
Description of GAO Associates plus source of free code for space applications and support for aerospace.
Manned Mission To Mars: Manned Mars Vehicle System Final Report
An analysis of the viability of a potential manned mission to Mars.
Laboratory for Spacecraft and Mission Design
A laboratory of the California Institute of Technology dedicated to developing low cost conceptual spacecraft design tools for concurrent space systems engineering.
NASA Lessons Learned
NASA Lessons Learned Information System. Appears access is restricted to NASA and approved contractors.
Cosmos 1: the first solar sail
The Planetary Society is developing a privately funded solar sail project with Cosmos Studios. The spacecraft will be developed, launched and operated in Russia.
QuakeSat small satellite - Stanford University
A small satellite project to detect earthquakes from outer space, developed by students at Stanford University and Quakefinder in Palo Alto, CA
Association RADECS
RADiation and its Effect on Components and Systems. Updated information about RADECS association and RADECS conferences will be available on this site in English.
Radiation-effects.com
Provide radiation effects services including measurements, data analysis, environment defintion, and technology assessment for space applications.
Practical Spacecraft
Spacecraft design resource for amateur and commercial space vehicle construction
Communications Satellite Software
SATSOFT is used for communication satellite antenna design, analysis, and coverage planning. Quickly assess antenna coverage and gain, conduct antenna sizing studies, develop shaped beam and multibeam antenna designs, and perform other satellite payload engineering tasks.
SpaceWire UK
Design services for the space industry, focusing mainly on SpaceWire, the new communications standard adopted by ESA and NASA for future missions.
Space Design Links
Links on satellite cost, thermal and environmental design.
Space Mechanical & Thermal Engineering Group
Design of space flight instruments, providing a range of services from conceptual studies to detailed design and analysis and the definition and management of tests.
European Space Components Information Exchange System
Facilitates European space industry to share information on satellite components
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