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AIAA Guide for Berthing/Docking/Grasping Interfaces for Serviceable Spacecraft (G-056-1992)
Format:
Paperback
This guide provides technical information for the design of three mechanical interfaces required for spacecraft servicing. Achieving a degree of commonality...
AIAA Guide for Berthing/Docking/Grasping Interfaces for Serviceable Spacecraft (G-056-1992e)
Format:
Digital
This guide provides technical information for the design of three mechanical interfaces required for spacecraft servicing. Achieving a degree of commonality...
AIAA Guide for Managing the Use of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Software Components for Mission-Critical Systems (G-118-2006e)
Format:
Digital
The purpose of this Guide is to assist development and maintenance projects (teams and individuals) that have to address the use of, or consideration...
AIAA Guide for Managing the Use of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Software Components for Mission-Critical Systems (G-118-2006e)
Format:
Online
The purpose of this Guide is to assist development and maintenance projects (teams and individuals) that have to address the use of, or consideration...
AIAA Guide for Reusable Software: Assessment Criteria for Aerospace Applications (G-010-1993)
Format:
Paperback
This guide establishes a domain analysis technique as the basis for developing criteria for assessing potentially reusable software and establishing...
AIAA Guide for Reusable Software: Assessment Criteria for Aerospace Applications (G-010-1993e)
Format:
Digital
This guide establishes a domain analysis technique as the basis for developing criteria for assessing potentially reusable software and establishing...
AIAA Guide for the Verification and Validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations (G-077-1998e)
Format:
Digital
This guide provides a means for assessing the credibility of modeling and simulation in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The two main principles...
AIAA Guide for Utility Connector Interfaces for Serviceable Spacecraft (G-072-1995)
Format:
Paperback
This AIAA guideline provides technical information for the development of spacecraft utility connectors. A historical perspective on utility connectors...
AIAA Guide for Utility Connector Interfaces for Serviceable Spacecraft (G-072-1995e)
Format:
Digital
This AIAA guideline provides technical information for the development of spacecraft utility connectors. A historical perspective on utility connectors...
AIAA Guide to Assessing Experimental Uncertainty - Supplement to S-071A-1999 (G-045-2003)
Format:
Paperback
This AIAA Guide supplements the methodology for assessment of experimental uncertainties and techniques for evaluating experimental error sources...
AIAA Guide to Assessing Experimental Uncertainty - Supplement to S-071A-1999 (G-045-2003e)
Format:
Digital
This AIAA Guide supplements the methodology for assessment of experimental uncertainties and techniques for evaluating experimental error sources...
AIAA Guide to Global Aerosol Models (GAM) (G-065-1999)
Format:
Paperback
The purpose of this work is to describe, in a convenient form, a standard guide to a set of existing reference global aerosol models. This guide contains...
AIAA Guide to Global Aerosol Models (GAM) (G-065-1999e)
Format:
Digital
The purpose of this work is to describe, in a convenient form, a standard guide to a set of existing reference global aerosol models. This guide contains...
AIAA Guide to Human Performance Measurements (G-035A-2000e)
Format:
Digital
This guide suggests methods for measuring human performance for the purpose of scientific research and system test and evaluation. The information...
AIAA Guide to Modeling of the Earth’s Trapped Radiation Environment (G-083-1999)
Format:
Paperback
This guide describes the status of efforts to develop better, more comprehensive tools for modeling and predicting the Earth’s trapped radiation environment...
AIAA Guide to Modeling of the Earth’s Trapped Radiation Environment (G-083-1999e)
Format:
Digital
This guide describes the status of efforts to develop better, more comprehensive tools for modeling and predicting the Earth’s trapped radiation environment...
AIAA Guide to Nomenclature and Axis Systems for Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel Testing (AIAA G-129-2012e)
Format:
Digital
This guide is intended to increase the understanding of test nomenclature and axis systems between wind tunnel facilities throughout the world. Facilities...
AIAA Guide to Reference and Standard Atmosphere Models (G-003C-2010e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides guidelines for selected reference and standard atmospheric models for use in engineering design or scientific research. The...
AIAA Guide to Reference and Standard Ionosphere Models (G-034-1998e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides guidelines for selecting ionospheric models for engineering design or scientific research. The guide describes the content...
AIAA Guide to Safety of Hydrogen and Hydrogen Systems (G-095-2004e)
Format:
Digital
This Guide presents information that designers, builders, and users of hydrogen systems can use to avoid or resolve hydrogen hazards. Guidelines are...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Calibration and Use of Internal Strain-Gage Balances with Application to Wind Tunnel Testing (R-091-2003)
Format:
Paperback
This document provides a recommended method for calibration of internal strain-gage balances used in wind tunnel testing. The practices include terminology,...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Calibration and Use of Internal Strain-Gage Balances with Application to Wind Tunnel Testing (R-091-2003e)
Format:
Digital
This document provides a recommended method for calibration of internal strain-gage balances used in wind tunnel testing. The practices include terminology,...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Mass Properties Control for Satellites, Missiles, and Launch Vehicles (R-020A-1999e)
Format:
Digital
This recommended practice provides a comprehensive methodology for mass properties control through the multiple phases of space hardware development....
AIAA Recommended Practice for Parts Management (R-100A-2001)
Format:
Paperback
This standard establishes a parts management approach that is consistent with the new acquisition reform business environment. It provides a performance-based...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Parts Management (R-100A-2001e)
Format:
Digital
This standard establishes a parts management approach that is consistent with the new acquisition reform business environment. It provides a performance-based...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Reporting Earth-to-Orbit Mission Profiles (R-060-1993)
Format:
Paperback
This recommended practice provides a means for comparing the payload capabilities of different launch vehicles. It defines initial and final stage...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Reporting Earth-to-Orbit Mission Profiles (R-060-1993e)
Format:
Digital
This recommended practice provides a means for comparing the payload capabilities of different launch vehicles. It defines initial and final stage...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Space Launch Integration (R-099-2001)
Format:
Paperback
This document identifies the processes and methodologies of space launch integration and recommends demonstrated practices that can improve the launch...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Space Launch Integration (R-099-2001e)
Format:
Digital
This document identifies the processes and methodologies of space launch integration and recommends demonstrated practices that can improve the launch...
AIAA Recommended Practice for the Calibration of Subsonic and Transonic Wind Tunnels (R-093-2003)
Format:
Paperback
AIAA Recommended Practice for the Calibration of Subsonic and Transonic Wind Tunnels (R-093-2003e)
Format:
Digital
AIAA Recommended Practice for The CFD General Notation System — Standard Interface Data Structures (R-101A-2005e)
Format:
Digital
The CFD General Notation System (CGNS) is a standard for recording and recovering computer data associated with the numerical solution of the equations...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Wind Tunnel Testing — Part 1 (R-092-1-2003)
Format:
Paperback
Wind tunnel testing is a critical component in the development of aerodynamic vehicles and associated technologies. While the time and expense of...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Wind Tunnel Testing — Part 1 (R-092-1-2003e)
Format:
Digital
Wind tunnel testing is a critical component in the development of aerodynamic vehicles and associated technologies. While the time and expense of...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Wind Tunnel Testing — Part 2 (R-092-2-2003)
Format:
Paperback
The purpose of this recommended practice document is to provide the reader with increased knowledge about planning and executing highly successful...
AIAA Recommended Practice for Wind Tunnel Testing — Part 2 (R-092-2-2003e)
Format:
Digital
The purpose of this recommended practice document is to provide the reader with increased knowledge about planning and executing highly successful...
AIAA Recommended Practice: Terminology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Remotely Operated Aircraft (R-103-2004)
Format:
Paperback
The purpose of this Recommended Practice is to aid in promoting understanding of the vocabulary and acronyms, currently in use, among many different...
AIAA Recommended Practice: Terminology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Remotely Operated Aircraft (R-103-2004e)
Format:
Digital
The purpose of this Recommended Practice is to aid in promoting understanding of the vocabulary and acronyms, currently in use, among many different...
AIAA Special Project - Status of Inflight Icing Forecasting Products and Plans for Future Development (AIAA SP-137-2012e)
Format:
Online File
The three papers in this Special Project Report were presented at the AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference in August 2010. They provide...
AIAA Special Project Report — Recommended Design Practices for Conceptual Nuclear Fusion Space Propulsion Systems (SP-108-2004)
Format:
Paperback
This document provides recommended design practices for conceptual engineering studies of nuclear fusion space propulsion systems. Discussion and...
AIAA Special Project Report — Recommended Design Practices for Conceptual Nuclear Fusion Space Propulsion Systems (SP-108-2004e)
Format:
Digital
This document provides recommended design practices for conceptual engineering studies of nuclear fusion space propulsion systems. Discussion and...
AIAA Special Report: Contemporary Models of the Orbital Environment (SP-069-1994)
Format:
Paperback
This special report contains the full text of six papers presented at the 1994 Aerospace Sciences Meeting in a session by the same name. Together...
AIAA Special Report: Contemporary Models of the Orbital Environment (SP-069-1994e)
Format:
Digital
This special report contains the full text of six papers presented at the 1994 Aerospace Sciences Meeting in a session by the same name. Together...
AIAA Special Report: Fire, Explosion, Compatibility, and Safety Hazards of Hypergols - Hydrazine (SP-084-1999e)
Format:
Digital
This special project report presents information that designers, builders, and users of hydrazine systems can use to avoid or resolve hydrazine hazards....
AIAA Special Report: Fire, Explosion, Compatibility, and Safety Hazards of Hypergols-Monomethylhydrazine (SP-085-1999e)
Format:
Digital
This Special Project report presents information that designers, builders, and user s of monomethylhydrazine systems can use to avoid or resolve monomethylhydrazine...
AIAA Special Report: Fire, Explosion, Compatibility, and Safety Hazards of Nitrogen Tetroxide (SP-086-2001e)
Format:
Digital
This Special Project report presents information that designers, builders, and user s of nitrogen tetroxide systems can use to avoid or resolve nitrogen...
AIAA Special Report: MEO/LEO Constellations: U.S. Laws, Policies, and Regulations on Orbital Debris Mitigation (SP-016-2-1999e)
Format:
Digital
This special report focuses on the emerging legal regime for orbital debris mitigation. It contains an overview of the relevant laws, policies, and...
AIAA Special Report: Orbital Debris Mitigation: Technical, Legal, and Economic Aspects (SP-016-1992)
Format:
Paperback
This special report is the result of a two-year effort by a large working group that conducted surveys of the industry and its customers, as well...
AIAA Standard — Adaptations and Conversions of CCSDS Space Link Extension Forward Communications Link Transmission Unit Transfer Service (S-123-2007e)
Format:
Digital
This document defines adaptations and conversions of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS)-standard SLE Forward Communications...
AIAA Standard — Adaptations and Conversions of CCSDS Space Link Extension Return All Frames Transfer Service (S-124-2007e)
Format:
Digital
This document defines adaptations and conversions of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) standard Space Link Extension (SLE)...
AIAA Standard — Assessment of Experimental Uncertainty with Application to Wind Tunnel Testing (S-071A-1999)
Format:
Paperback
This AIAA Standard provides a new methodology for assessment of experimental uncertainty and technique for evaluating wind tunnel error sources. The...
AIAA Standard — Assessment of Experimental Uncertainty with Application to Wind Tunnel Testing (S-071A-1999e)
Format:
Digital
This AIAA Standard provides a new methodology for assessment of experimental uncertainty and technique for evaluating wind tunnel error sources. The...
AIAA Standard — Criteria for Explosive Systems and Devices on Space and Launch Vehicles (S-113-2005)
Format:
Paperback
This standard establishes criteria for design, manufacture, and performance certification of explosive systems and explosive devices commonly used...
AIAA Standard — Criteria for Explosive Systems and Devices on Space and Launch Vehicles (S-113-2005e)
Format:
Digital
This standard establishes criteria for design, manufacture, and performance certification of explosive systems and explosive devices commonly used...
AIAA Standard — Electrical Power Systems for Unmanned Spacecraft (S-122-2007)
Format:
Paperback
This document, when followed in its entirety, will yield a robust EPS design suitable for very high-reliability space missions. This document specifies...
AIAA Standard — Electrical Power Systems for Unmanned Spacecraft (S-122-2007e)
Format:
Digital
This document, when followed in its entirety, will yield a robust EPS design suitable for very high-reliability space missions. This document specifies...
AIAA Standard — Electromagnetic Compatibility Requirements for Space Equipment and Systems (S-121-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This document specifies general design practices and sets recommended verification and validation requirements for space vehicles and launch vehicles.
AIAA Standard — Mass Properties Control for Space Systems (S-120-2006)
Format:
Paperback
This standard defines terminology and establishes uniform processes, procedures, and systematic methods for the management, control, monitoring, determination,...
AIAA Standard — Mass Properties Control for Space Systems (S-120-2006e)
Format:
Digital
This standard defines terminology and establishes uniform processes, procedures, and systematic methods for the management, control, monitoring, determination,...
AIAA Standard — Moving Mechanical Assemblies for Space and Launch Vehicles (S-114-2005)
Format:
Paperback
This standard specifies general requirements for the design, manufacture, quality control, testing, and storage of moving mechanical assemblies (MMAs)...
AIAA Standard — Moving Mechanical Assemblies for Space and Launch Vehicles (S-114-2005e)
Format:
Digital
This standard specifies general requirements for the design, manufacture, quality control, testing, and storage of moving mechanical assemblies (MMAs)...
AIAA Standard — Qualification and Quality Requirements for Space Solar Cells (S-111-2005)
Format:
Paperback
This standard establishes qualification and quality requirements for solar cells. Section 7 describes specific tests necessary to ensure the quality...
AIAA Standard — Qualification and Quality Requirements for Space Solar Cells (S-111-2005e)
Format:
Digital
This standard establishes qualification and quality requirements for solar cells. Section 7 describes specific tests necessary to ensure the quality...
AIAA Standard — Qualification and Quality Requirements for Space Solar Panels (S-112-2005)
Format:
Paperback
This standard establishes the quality requirements and provides methods for establishing the qualification of solar panels. Section 7 describes specific...
AIAA Standard — Qualification and Quality Requirements for Space Solar Panels (S-112-2005e)
Format:
Digital
This standard establishes the quality requirements and provides methods for establishing the qualification of solar panels. Section 7 describes specific...
AIAA Standard — Space Systems Verification Program and Management Process (S-117-2010e)
Format:
Digital
This document enforces a systematic approach to planning and executing verification programs for manned and unmanned space systems based on a distributed...
AIAA Standard for Commercial Launch Safety (S-061-1998e)
Format:
Digital
This AIAA standard establishes the minimum requirements for conducting safe commercial launches of payloads into Earth orbit or for sub–orbital purposes....
AIAA Standard for Space Systems — Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs) (S-081A-2006e)
Format:
Digital
This standard establishes baseline requirements for the design, fabrication, test, inspection, operation, and maintenance of composite overwrapped...
AIAA Standard for Space Systems — Metallic Pressure Vessels, Pressurized Structures, and Pressure Components (S-080-1998e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides requirements for the analysis, design, manufacture, qualification, and acceptance for flight of metallic pressure vessels,...
AIAA Standard for Space Systems — Structures, Structural Components, and Structural Assemblies (S-110-2005)
Format:
Paperback
This document establishes a standard for the design, analysis, material selection and characterization, fabrication, test, and inspection of structural...
AIAA Standard for Space Systems — Structures, Structural Components, and Structural Assemblies (S-110-2005e)
Format:
Digital
This document establishes a standard for the design, analysis, material selection and characterization, fabrication, test, and inspection of structural...
AIAA Standard on Aerodynamic Decelerator and Parachute Drawings (S-017A-2000)
Format:
Paperback
This AIAA Standard establishes terminology for 260 terms critical to communication about the design and function of parachutes. It further sets requirements...
AIAA Standard on Aerodynamic Decelerator and Parachute Drawings (S-017A-2000e)
Format:
Digital
This AIAA Standard establishes terminology for 260 terms critical to communication about the design and function of parachutes. It further sets requirements...
AIAA Standard Vocabulary for Space Automation and Robotics (S-066-1995)
Format:
Paperback
As the field of space automation and robotics continues to grow, standardization of the terminology associated with this area becomes a necessity....
AIAA Standard Vocabulary for Space Automation and Robotics (S-066-1995e)
Format:
Digital
As the field of space automation and robotics continues to grow, standardization of the terminology associated with this area becomes a necessity....
ANSI/AIAA Astrodynamics-Propagation Specifications, Technical Definitions, and Recommended Practices (ANSI/AIAA S-131-2010e)
Format:
Digital
ANSI/AIAA Flight Dynamics Model Exchange Standard (ANSI/AIAA S-119-2011e)
Format:
Digital
This is a standard for the interchange of simulation modeling data between facilities. The initial objective is to allow easy, straightforward exchanges...
ANSI/AIAA Guide to the Preparation of Operational Concept Documents (ANSI/AIAA G-043A-2012e)
Format:
Digital
A recognized systems engineering best practice is early development of operational concepts during system development and documentation of those operational...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Anomaly Detection and Response Analysis (S-102-2-11-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides the basis for developing identification and response methods for system anomalies or faults that pose unacceptable risk. The...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Failure Reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) Requirements (S-102-1-4-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides the basis for developing the performance-based Failure Reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to resolve the...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Failure Reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) Requirements (S-102-1-4-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides the basis for developing the performance-based Failure Reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to resolve the...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Failure Review Board (FRB) Requirements (S-102-1-5-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This Standard provides the basis for developing the performance-based Failure Review Board (FRB), which is a group consisting of representatives from...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Fault Tree Analysis Requirements (S-102-2-18-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides the basis for developing the performance-based fault tree analysis (FTA) to review and analytically examine a system or equipment...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Product Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) Requirements (S-102-2-4-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides the basis for developing the analysis of failure modes, their effects, and criticality in the context of individual products...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based Sneak Circuit Analysis (SCA) Requirements (S-102-2-5-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This standard provides the basis for developing the analysis of sneak conditions. The sneak conditions may consist of hardware, software, operator...
ANSI/AIAA Performance-Based System Reliability Modeling Requirements (S-102-2-2-2009e)
Format:
Digital
This Standard provides the basis for developing performance-based System Reliability Modeling to develop mathematical or simulation models to be used...
ANSI/AIAA Standard for Space Systems — Flywheel Rotor Assemblies (ANSI/AIAA S-096-2004)
Format:
Paperback
This standard establishes baseline requirements for the design, fabrication, test, inspection, storage, and transportation of a flywheel rotor assembly...
ANSI/AIAA Standard for Space Systems — Flywheel Rotor Assemblies (ANSI/AIAA S-096-2004e)
Format:
Digital
This standard establishes baseline requirements for the design, fabrication, test, inspection, storage, and transportation of a flywheel rotor assembly...
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