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AE 530 COURSE SYLLABUS
ROCKET AND SPACE PROPULSION
MAE 155A COURSE SYLLABUS
Aerospace Engineering Design
Global Hawk low observable, long duration aircraft
Aero Homework
Rocket test Videos:
Closeup 3.4 meg mpg (Doug Gaylord)
From the blockhouse 1.3 meg mpg (Eric Besnard)
The above shows a large amatuer rocket powered by liquid oxygen and jet fuel.
Instructors: Steve Harrington Dr Aaron Drake
Email: sharring@flometrics.com
Homework 1B problems with hints!
Homework 1b Solution description (Joe Carroll)
Homework 1b calcuations (Vladimir Guzaev)
Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft historyJoe Carroll's Orbital Mechanics and Tether Guidebook
Orbital Mechanics Lecture:Newton Gravity Swings and Sails
Win $50,000 by tagging an asteroid
Spacecraft design sample problem
Other stuff:
Pistonless pump paper #1 Pump Design
Pistonless pump paper #2 Trade Study
Mathcad equations (Shift click to download)
Isentropic flow relations and more rocket equations
Rocket Theoretical performance
References:
1. P. G. Hill & C. R. Peterson: "Mechanics and Thermodynamics
of Propulsion",
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1965/1991.
2. M. J. Zucrow, "Aircraft and Missile Propulsion", John Wiley
& Sons, Inc., 1968.
3. G. C. Sutton, "Rocket Propulsion Elements", John Wiley &
Sons, 1986/1992/2000.
4. M. Barrere, et al., "Rocket Propulsion", Elsevier Publishing Co., 1960.
5. Martin J. L. Turner, Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion: Principles, Practice and New Developments Springer Praxis 2000
6. Oates, Gordon C.: Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion 1986
7. Dieter K. Huzel, David H. Huang, Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol 147) AIAA 1992
More Rocket links:
Thermodynamic properties from NASA
Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica
Space Shuttle News Reference Manual
Stennis Rocket Test Photographs
XRV - Rocket Chronicles - Rocket Links
Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company
Space Database (info on all kinds of Rockets
Richard Nakka's Experimental Rocketry Web Site
New rocket Companies:
XCOR Aerospace: Commercial Liquid Rocket Engines and Vehicles
Space Tourism:
X PRIZE Foundation // New Race to Space
Scaled Composites/SpaceShipOne
Class Web pages
Rocket Performance UMD lecture notes
Propulsion Home Page MIT (with lecture notes)
Rockets, Spring 2000 (with lecture notes)
Space news
Space Shuttle at max q (maximum aerodynamic loading)
