Role within programme and connections to other courses. Details of spacecraft design and development, including typical mission requirements, such as payload and orbit determination, and how these determine choices for the main spacecraft sub-systems and overall spacecraft design. Uses, in connection with the Design Lab, computer-aided design (CAD), numerical modeling and simulation of space systems, the finite element method, and the finite difference method. Content. Subsystems such as power, telemetry, command and control, communications, and thermal control. Mission components such as estimation of the power budget, and different types/classes of satellites and launch vehicles.
Prerequisites: PHYS 3431.
Co-requisite: PHYS 3437, ECE 3232, ECE 3312. |
