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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
161

A neural network-based sensor validation scheme within aircraft control laws

Stolarik, Brian M. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 117 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-96).
162

Investigation or a pulsed plasma thruster plume using a quadruple Langmuir probe technique

Zwahlen, Jurg C. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: Langmuir probes; spacecraft; electric propulsion. Includes bibliographical references (p.69-71).
163

Development of multisensor fusion techniques with gating networks applied to reentry vehicles

Dubois-Matra, Olivier 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
164

Reducing spacecraft state uncertainty through indirect trajectory optimization

Zimmer, Scott Jason 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
165

Robust spacecraft attitude determination using global positioning system receivers

Madsen, Jared Dale 11 July 2011 (has links)
Not available / text
166

Satellite placement using a partial space elevator

Woo, Pamela. January 2009 (has links)
The space elevator has been proposed as an alternate method for launching cargo into space. However, the construction of such a structure requires a material much stronger than any currently in existence. Instead, a partial elevator is considered for satellite placement. In the first part of the thesis, the fundamentals of very long tethered systems are studied. From static analysis on a simple two-body system, it is demonstrated that an assumption made in the conventional analysis does not apply to very long tethered systems. For a uniform tether, the axial stress distribution is obtained. Following the Lagrangian approach, the equations of motion governing the planar librations of a multi-body tethered system are derived. From a linearization of these equations, the libration frequencies are found. Then, by solving the nonlinear equations numerically, the responses to various changes in the system parameters are determined. In the second part of the thesis, the use of a partial elevator in satellite placement is studied. In the case of single climber transit, residual librations occur, which alter the shape and size of the orbit of a satellite launched from the climber. An approach using two climbers is investigated in order to decrease the residual libration and thereby reduce orbit placement errors. Also, some energy calculations are done to determine whether the partial elevator offers significant advantages.
167

Challenges and methodology in the design of a vertical lift aerial vehicle for use on the planet Mars

O'Brien, Patrick Charles 05 1900 (has links)
No description available.
168

High performance, robust control of flexible space structures

Whorton, Mark S. (Mark Stephen) 08 1900 (has links)
No description available.
169

Thermal analysis and testing of a spaceborne passive cooler

Jones, Graham January 1994 (has links)
This thesis describes the thermal design and thermal testing of the development model radiative cooler for the Composite Infra-Red Spectrometer (CIRS) due for launch on the Cassini spacecraft in 1997. The radiative cooler is used to cool the instrument's Focal Plane Assembly (FPA) to approximately 80K. The FPA holds two arrays of HgCdTe detectors for the mid infra-red spectrometer of the instrument which covers the wavelength range 7μm to 17μm. The FPA is mounted from the optics on a titanium alloy tripod and is cooled conductively by the radiator via a flexible link and a cold finger. A range of thermal models of the system have been developed ranging from a simple, analytical model to a finite difference numerical model. A calorimeter was designed to perform heat leak measurements on samples of Multi- Layer Insulation (MLI) blankets to determine the number and type of shields required for the MLI blanket covering the back of the cooler radiator. A test facility incorporating a vacuum system, a space simulator target, and a simulator for the CIRS instrument was designed and constructed for testing the assembled cooler. Various configurations of the Development Model (DM) CIRS cooler were tested as components became available and the results obtained compared to the thermal model predictions. It was found that the cooler will attain a temperature of 80K in operation, but with less excess cooling power than predicted by the thermal models.
170

Fiber optic MOD smart fabric detector arrays for spacecraft applications.

Rethoret, Brian. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M.A. Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2869. Includes bibliographical references.

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