This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader
with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space
missions across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been
thoroughly revised and updated with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field.
Three chapters - Ground Segment Product Assurance and Spacecraft System Engineering - have
been rewritten and the topic of Assembly Integration and Verification has been introduced as
a new chapter filling a gap in previous editions. This edition addresses 'front-end
system-level issues' such as environment mission analysis and system engineering but also
progresses to a detailed examination of subsystem elements which represents the core of
spacecraft design. This includes mechanical electrical and thermal aspects as well as
propulsion and control. This quantitative treatment is supplemented by an emphasis on the
interactions between elements which deeply influences the process of spacecraft design.
Adopted on courses worldwide Spacecraft Systems Engineering is already widely respected by
students researchers and practising engineers in the space engineering sector. It provides a
valuable resource for practitioners in a wide spectrum of disciplines including system and
subsystem engineers spacecraft equipment designers spacecraft operators space scientists and
those involved in related sectors such as space insurance. In summary this is an outstanding
resource for aerospace engineering students and all those involved in the technical aspects of
design and engineering in the space sector.
