Spacecraft and Satellite Design
Links
APCO Technologies
http://www.apco-technologies.com
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APCO Technologies SA designs and manufactures mechanical and electromechanical equipment for the space industry.
JPL Part Reliablility
Guidelines for parts selection and space reliability.COTS parts used in Space applications.
NASA Lessons Learned
NASA Lessons Learned Information System. Appears access is restricted to NASA and approved contractors.
Space Design Links
http://www.ssl.umd.edu/space/design.html
Links on satellite cost, thermal and environmental design.
Cosmos 1: the first solar sail
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/
The Planetary Society is developing a privately funded solar sail project with Cosmos Studios. The spacecraft will be developed, launched and operated in Russia.
Discovery Program Documents
http://discovery.larc.nasa.gov/discovery/dpl.html
Discovery guidelines and requirements documents. Good reference collection.
GAO Space
Description of GAO Associates plus source of free code for space applications and support for aerospace.
Radiation-effects.com
http://www.radiation-effects.com
Provide radiation effects services including measurements, data analysis, environment defintion, and technology assessment for space applications.
Aerospace Systems, Concepts, and Analysis
http://discovery.larc.nasa.gov/
NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Includes organization, key personnel, mission, activities branches, and space-related bulletin boards.
Drag-free satellites.
http://www.dragfreesatellite.com/
Experimental gravitational physics using drag-free satellites.
European Space Components Information Exchange System
Facilitates European space industry to share information on satellite components
Space Environments & Effects Program
NASA's space environment program. Features overview, news, flight experiements, mathematical models and publications.
Astronautics and Spacecraft Design
http://ame-www.usc.edu/bio/mikeg/astromike/index.html
Offers an aerospace professor's comprehensive and updated collection of spacecraft design links.
Applied Technology Space and Satellite Training
Offers overview of courses provided in spacecraft design for engineers and scientists.
NASA Parts Selection List
Provides catalogs and specifications for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts to use in space systems.
Spacecraft
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space
Weblog for Discussion of Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control, and News.
eclipse aerospace
http://www.freewebs.com/eclipseaerospace/
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.
Rosetta Spacecraft Design
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=13
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.
Starnav 1 experiment mission web site
Starnav 1 startracker experiment that flew on STS-107 Columbia mission.
SpaceWire UK
Design services for the space industry, focusing mainly on SpaceWire, the new communications standard adopted by ESA and NASA for future missions.