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Spacecraft
System
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ASTE 520
Master of Science in
Astronautical Engineering (MS ASTE)
MS ASTE - Frequently asked
questions
MS ASTE -
schedule of courses
USC Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering: Overview (53
min)
who should take course ASTE 520 Spacecraft
Design 
MS ASTE
Program Update
Applying
ASTE-520: Satllite Launch by North Korea in 2012
ASTE 520 in Fall 2013
semester: all course materials will be posted
on the class web site at
DEN/GAPP
in mid August.
In the
meantime,
you can get some information about the course
from a recent (Spring 2013) first (introductory) lecture :
ASTE 520 First lecture and detailed information
In
20132014 academic year,
ASTE520 Spacecraft Design
will
be offered in thefall 2013 (Monday,
6:309:10 pm) semester;
the course will not be offered
in the
spring 2014
semester.
MS ASTE
course schedule
Note that
shedules do change. Always check the course schedule with ASTE Student
Advisor
.
Course
webcasts. All lectures are available as webcasts through VSOE's
Distance Education Network DEN to all
students enrolled in the course during the entire semester.
PC or Mac.
DEN streams course videos using Microsoft Windows media encoders and servers.
While streaming windows media files are supported by both the latest Mac and PC
operating systems, using a Windows based system will usually provide a better
experience. Additionally, DEN has recently added video download capabilities
using Microsofts Digital Rights Management supporting Windows operating
systems.
ASTE520 is a very popular graduate course. Almost 1100 students took the course during the last 10 years from
2003-2012; more than 1400 students took the course
since 1996.
Recommended books
(textbooks and monographs)
on Astronautics, Spacecraft Design, and Spacecraft Systems
Frequently asked questions FAQ
Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering
USC Master of Science in
Astronautical Engineering: Overview (53 min)
For fun:
Sputnik 1
Explorer 1
Vanguard 1
Special lecture (free download) 1 hr 10 min
The
Road to Space. The First Thousand Years.
Fifty years ago in October of
1957, the first artificial satellite of the Earth was launched into
space.
The lecture focuses on the history of the
events that led us to the space age.
Special lecture (webcast):
Space: From Firecrackers to Interstellar
Flight
Part 1. The First Thousand
Years (webcast 87 min);
Part 2. Space in 21st
Century (webcast 84 min)
Video clips on satellite orbits and space
Space Mission Design and
Spacecraft Design
Short courses: space
systems and space missions
Book preview
Mike's
book
Blazing the
Trail. The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry
(published by AIAA in 2004) received
the Luigi Napolitano Award from the International Academy of
Astronautics (IAA) in 2006.
From
Astronautics to Cosmonautics
book published in 2007
About Course ASTE 520
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ASTE 520 Spacecraft Design is usually taken by astronautical engineering and other
science (physics, astronomy. math) and engineering (electrical, mechanical, aerospace,
chemical, systems, computer, and other) graduate students and
sometimes advanced senior level undergrad students.
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This class is a core requirement for the
degree Master of Science in Astronautical
Engineering (code ASTE).
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Frequently asked questions Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering
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The course offers a broad introduction to
fundamentals of space systems, main spacecraft subsystems, and their interactions.
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This class is a must for science and engineering students,
regardless of their major,
considering careers in the space industry
and government space research and development centers.
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This
is a very popular class,
perhaps the largest graduate class on fundamentals of space systems in the United
States. More than 1100 graduate students took this class during the last 10
years from 2003-2010.
Book preview
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Instructor:
Professor
Mike Gruntman
(detailed bio)
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In academic years 20082009, 20092010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and 2012-2013 the course
was offered in both semesters, fall (Monday, 6:309:10 pm) and
spring (Friday, 5:007:40 pm). In 20132014 academic year, I will ofer
the course - unlimited enrollment - only in the fall of 2013.
Always check the class schedule with ASTE Student
Affairs.
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ASTE 520 is webcast and available through
the USC Distance Education
Network
(DEN). DEN classes are taken by students pursuing graduate degrees
(especially Master
of Science) anywhere in the United States. In 20052013, students from 1014 states of the United
States enrolled each year in Mike's ASTE 520.
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Many our students work full time in major space companies
and space government research and development centers (Aerospace Corporation,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed-Martin,
Northrop-Grumman, Boeing,
UT, Space and Missiles Systems Center, etc.), in small companies, or are on
active duty. There
is growing enrollment into the astronautical engineering program of students not
affiliated with companies (on an individual basis).
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More information on the
history, focus, and organization of the USC Astronautics program
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To get more information on ASTE520, other astronautics-related courses, USC graduate and undergraduate programs in
Astronautical Engineering , and on
DEN and contact information, please consult
Frequently asked questions Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering
Awarded (annual) Master's degrees in Astronautical
Engineering
ASTE 520 Spacecraft System Design
Organization of the class.
History of space exploration.
Univere. Galaxy. solar system. Coordinate systems.
Space environment. Hardness.
Space mission geometry; astrodynamics.
Orbit design. Basic orbits, perturbations,
delta-V.
Spacecraft and mission design overview.
Operations, launching facilities. Reliability.
Guidance, navigation and control; attitude
determination; reaction control system. Global Positioning System.
Propulsion. Launch systems.
Introduction to communications; antennas.
Communication link;TT & C; data handling.
Electric power systems.
Thermal control.
Structures and mechanisms.
Only for students enrolled in Mike's
ASTE 520
REQUIRED CLASS NOTES
Class
Notes (800+ pages) are essential and mandatory to the
course.
The notes are available for download at DEN's web site of
ASTE520 in the beginning of the semester.
Start with reading the "readme.pdf"
file for instructions.
Usually, the full set of notes is ready before the first
class meeting. The full set of homework assignments will also be available by
that time, or at the latest by the end of the first month of the semester.
To access the class web site at DEN, all students
enrolled in the class (including all on-campus students) must register with
DEN.
Note that the notes are protected with a password that can be obtained
only from the instructor (see Section 00, Part 2; no password
protection).
Required text
Space Mission Analysis and
Design , ed. W.J. Larson and J.R. Wertz,
Kluwer Academic Publishers and
Microcosm, 3rd Edition.
or
Space Mission
Engineering: The New SMAD
,
eds. J. R. Wertz, D.F. Everett, and
J.J. Puschell, Microcosm, 2011.
The students enrolled in ASTE520 will get
discount, as usual, when buying the book directly from the publisher at
http://astrobooks.com (you need to contact - call by telephone - them directly and tell that you
are enrolled in Mike Gruntman's ASTE520).
Many other textbooks and
monographs
recommended by the instructor
on various aspects of astronautics and space technology are listed at
http://astronauticsnow.com/AstroBooks/index.html
Homework
There are 3036 homework assignments. Late homework is graded with grades reduced by a 50%
factor.
Grading policy for ASTE 520 (subject to change)
40% Midterm
40% Final
20% Homework
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