Cosmic space

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Department of Aerospace Engineering

Synopsis:

Student will get a basics of specifics of space environment and its influence on spacecrafts.

Requirements:

No requirements.

Syllabus of lectures:

1) Vacuum physics and technology I basics of vacuum physics and technology, (ultra)high vacuum

2) Vacuum physics and technology II materials in (ultra)high vacuum

3) Vacuum physics and technology III practical solutions of vacuum technology

4) External and internal thermal and radiative balance of spacecrafts

5) Space plasma I motion of charged particles, basics of plasma physics

6) Space plasma II upper layers of atmosphere and ionosphere

7) Space plasma III planetary magnetic fields, Earth magnetosphere

8) Space plasma IV solar wind and interplanetary space

9) Space radiation a micrometeoroids

10) Microgravity I lowered and increased g-force

11) Microgravity II dynamics of objects and liquids in microgravity

12) Introduction to problems of space medicine

13) Long-range observation and communication

Syllabus of tutorials:

1)-3) Vacuum physics and technology

4) Thermal and radiative balance of spacecrafts

5)-9) Space plasma and space radiation

10-12) Microgravity

13) Long-range communication

Study Objective:

Introduction to the problems of space environment.

Study materials:

basic:

V. L. Pisacane: The Space Environment and Its Effects on Space Systems, AIAA, 2008

recommended:

Alan C. Tribble: The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN: 978-0691102993

John F. O'Hanlon: A User's Guide to Vacuum Technology, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 978-0-471-27052-2

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