AS4008 Space Vehicle Design Syllabus:
AS4008 Space Vehicle Design Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course will make students
1. To provide knowledge on the basic aspects of space vehicle operation environment.
2. To give an idea about the structural loads acting on space vehicles
3. To introduce the space vehicle design aspects, its complex issues requiring expertise from many different areas of Aerospace Engineering.
4. To impart knowledge on various parameters that influences the design of space vehicles including their mission, orbital mechanics and the space environment.
5. To get insight into the basic aspects of re-entry motion.
UNIT I SPACE VEHICLE BASICS
Earth environment – Launch environment – Atmospheric environment – Rocket performance and staging – Selection criteria of space vehicles – Expendable launch vehicles- Advanced mission concepts.
UNIT II STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Design drivers – Mission goals – Payload and instrument requirements – factors in structural concept selection – Deployable Structures – Vehicle mass – Vehicle centre of mass – Moment of inertia – Sources of structural loads – Analysis of structural loads – Load alleviation – Stress levels and safety factors – Structural materials.
UNIT III CONFIGURATION ASPECTS
Propulsion system aspects – Vehicle configuration – Number of stages/boosters – Vehicle layout – Recovery system selection – Launch sites – Guidance strategy – Ascent guidance – Flyback guidance systems – Attitude controller.
UNIT IV POWER SYSTEM DESIGN
Power system functions – Power system design drivers – Power system elements – Solar array design – Fuel cells – Power conditioning and control – Future concepts in space propulsion.
UNIT V RE-ENTRY MOTION
Re-entry Motion – Trade-offs for Re-entry Design – Significant Forces on a Re-entry vehicle – Ballistic Coefficient – Re-entry Motion Analysis – Trajectory and Deceleration – Trajectory and Heating – Trajectory and the Re-entry Corridor – Vehicle Shape design.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon the completion of this course, students will be
CO1: Familiar with the selection criteria of space launch vehicles.
CO2: Able to design space vehicles considering the various structural loads.
CO3: In a position to wisely select suitable configuration of space launch vehicle for given requirements.
CO4: Able to perform the design of power system for space vehicles.
CO5: Able to analyze re-entry motion of vehicles.
REFERENCES:
1. Alan C. Tribble, “The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design”, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, 2003.
2. Michael D. Griffin, James R. French, “Space Vehicle Design”, AIAA Education Series, Second edition, 1991.
3. Mukund R. Patel, “Spacecraft Power Systems”, CRC Press, 2005.
4. Pasquale M Sforza, “Manned Spacecraft Design Principles”, Butterworth – Heinemann, 2015.
5. Peter Fortescue, John Stark and Graham Swinerd, “Spacecraft Systems Engineering”,Wiley, 3rd Edition, 2003.