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Addresses materials selection and use in aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, and propulsion systems and power systems. Coverage includes Aerospace Materials Characteristics, Materials Selection for Aerospace Systems, Advanced Nanoengineered Materials, Subsonic Aircraft Materials Development, Materials for Spacecraft, and more.

Provides the aerospace researcher and the practicing aerospace engineer with insight into the latest innovative methods and approaches regarding intelligent and autonomous aerospace systems. Coverage includes Intelligent Space Systems, Intelligent Validation and Verification Methods, Intelligent Health Monitoring, and Intelligent Flight Control.

Examines the use of direct methods in applied spacecraft trajectory optimization. A full breadth of orbit transfer topics is discussed, from the formation of initial guesses to the generation of a full, high-fidelity, multiple manoeuvre transfer that satisfies all mission constraints and objectives.

Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance contains twenty-two chapters of which chapters one through nine are completely new. The remaining chapters in this volume are updated from previous editions of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, a Summerfield Book Award winner.

Presents state-of-the-art thought leadership on system complexity for aerospace and aviation, where breakthrough paradigms and strategies are sorely needed. The breadth of topics covered provide an enriched view of all types of systems-technical, machine, and human systems - to both practitioners and academics.