Spacecraft Systems Design and Mission Integration: A Practical Engineering Reference for Mission Architecture, Propulsion, Electrical Power, Thermal ... Reliability, Testing, and Space Operations
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Spacecraft Systems Design and Mission Integration: A Practical Engineering Reference for Mission Architecture, Propulsion, Electrical Power, Thermal ... Reliability, Testing, and Space Operations
- Author
- WHITFIELD, GREGORY M.
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798160552996
A spacecraft may be divided into subsystems on an engineering diagram, but it never behaves as a collection of independent parts. Change the power requirement and thermal conditions shift. Change propulsion capability and mass, maneuver planning, and mission life are affected. Tighten pointing requirements and communications, control authority, structural behavior, and operations may all have to respond.
Spacecraft Systems Design and Mission Integration is built around that reality.
Rather than viewing propulsion, electrical power, thermal control, communications, attitude control, reliability, testing, and operations as disconnected technical subjects, this practical engineering reference brings them together through the larger question every successful mission must answer: How do all of these systems work together as one spacecraft?
Readers are guided through the engineering relationships that shape mission architecture, subsystem selection, integration decisions, technical margins, operational readiness, and overall mission performance.
Inside, the focus extends across:
- Mission architecture and system-level integration—understanding how mission objectives translate into spacecraft requirements and engineering priorities.
- Propulsion, power, thermal, communications, and attitude control—examining the major technical systems that determine what a spacecraft can actually accomplish.
- Reliability and engineering decision-making—considering how redundancy, robustness, constraints, and competing requirements influence design choices.
- Testing and mission readiness—connecting engineering development with the verification activities needed before flight.
- Space operations—showing why the spacecraft must be designed not only to launch successfully, but to remain controllable, supportable, and useful throughout its mission.
The result is a reference designed for readers who need to understand more than individual components. It is intended to support aerospace engineering students, spacecraft and satellite engineers, systems engineers, technical professionals, and readers developing a deeper working knowledge of integrated space systems.
At 325 pages, the book occupies a useful middle ground between a short introductory overview and the thousand-page specialist references that can be difficult to navigate when a practical answer is needed.
If you want to understand the spacecraft as one integrated mission system—not as a stack of unrelated subsystems—make this reference part of your engineering library.
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