Book
preview
Regression of
Nodes ( 4 min
20 sec) (
on
YouTube and
Yahoo)
Prograde, Retrograde, and Sun-Synchronous Orbits
( 5 min
30 sec)
(on
YouTube and
Yahoo)
Recommended Textbooks and Monographs on Astronautics and
Space Technology
Rotation
of Apsides (5 min 40
sec)
(on YouTube and Yahoo)
Molniya
Orbit ( 5 min 10
sec)
(on YouTube and Yahoo)
Molniya
Communications Relay (4 min
15 sec)
(communications link between a satellite in sun-synchronous orbit and a ground
station through a relay 12-hour Molniya satellite; on YouTube and Yahoo)
Orbit
Circularization by Atmospheric Drag ( 3 min 50 sec)
(on YouTube and Yahoo)
Global
Positioning System GPS Constellation ( 5 min 15 sec) (
on YouTube and Yahoo)
Effects of Solar Radiation Pressure on Satellite
Orbits
( 6 min 28 sec)
(on YouTubeand Yahoo)
Geostationary orbit
GEO
( 8 min 54 sec)
(evolution of geostationary
orbits, on YouTube)
Interstellar Helium Atom
Flux at 1
AU
( 8 min 09 sec)
(silent; on
YouTube)
Satellite
Launch by North Korea in 2012 (18 min)
--- More instructional video clips are coming ---
Recommended Textbooks
and Monographs on Astronautics and Space
Technology
Ice Ages, Solar System Dynamics and Global
Climate Change
( 3 min 30 sec)
Effects of Solar system dunamics on global climate and ice
ages;on YouTube
and
Yahoo
Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging: The Next Step
(invited talk at the Fall Meeting, AGU,
December 2012)
15 minutes: time interval 16:03-31:30 in the
YouTube video of the session
Sputnik 1
Explorer 1
Vanguard 1
Recommended books on
history of astronautics, rocketry, spaceflight, and space technology
Book preview
The Road to Space. The
First Thousand Years. (1 hr 10 min; 390MB)
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union and the
United States launched into space the first artificial satellites of the
Earth. The lecture (recorded in January 2007) presents the fascinating
story of the events that paved the way to space. It introduces the
history of early rocketry and the subsequent developments which led into
the space age. It is recommended to download first the
slides of the presentation
(pdf file).
Also available on Yahoo (Part
1/2;
Part 2/2) and YouTube (Part
1/8;
Part 2/8;
Part 3/8;
Part 4/8;
Part 5/8;
Part 6/8;
Part 7/8;
Part 8/8).
In addition, IAFASTRO posted
the entire
lecture on YouTube as one video clip.
Space: From
Firecrackers to Interstellar Flight (webcast)
Part 1. The First Thousand Years. (87 min)
Part 2. Space in 21st
Century. (84 min)
Ary Sternfeld. A Forgotten Space
Pioneer.
(25
min)
Blazing the Trail. The
Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA, Reston, Va.,
2004
Winner of the Luigi
Napolitano Award (2006) from the International
Academy of Astronautics
Book
preview
From Astronautics to
Cosmonautics, BookSurge, No. Charleston, SC,
2007.
Book
preview
Enemy Amongst Trojans. A
Soviet Spy at USC, Figueroa Press, Los Angeles, Calif.,
2010