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Fundamentals of Spacecraft Engineering & Orbital Mechanics
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Fundamentals of Spacecraft Engineering & Orbital Mechanics

Understand the Space Environment and the Engineering Behind Satellites, Launchers and Spacecraft Systems
Created byEliott Wertheimer
Last updated 4/2019
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand the challenges and motivations behind space travel.
  • Understand the fundamentals of the current state of the art in Space technologies
  • Understand the basics of rocket science and be able to move onto more advanced levels of analysis
  • Understand orbital mechanics and the various effects of gravity.
  • Impress friends and family with sound knowledge on a very impressive and important subject of our modern era
  • Open yourself to new hobbies, careers or studies path in Space Engineering.

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 52m total length

  • Introduction2:17

    Explore the challenges and motivations behind space travel, and examine the engineering of spacecraft systems and design, including orbital mechanics and propulsion technologies.

  • Why go to Space?11:05

    Space exploration accelerates science and technology, illustrated by Apollo, Hubble, satellites, and the International Space Station. It enables new resources and planetary defense, driving a spacefaring civilization.

  • The Space Environment: Low Earth Orbit4:57

    Explore the low earth orbit environment, where residual atmosphere at 160–2000 km causes drag and atomic oxygen erosion, while the magnetosphere and Van Allen belt influence radiation exposure amid debris.

  • The Space Environment: Deep Space12:32

    Explore the deep space environment, featuring a near vacuum and microgravity that affect heat transfer, fluids, and materials, along with ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and solar particles.

  • Space reasonale and environment

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of physics (force, velocity, acceleration, pressure, etc) will help but is not mandatory.
  • All mentioned principles and concepts are explained throughout the course.

Description

ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, DETAILED AND APPROACHABLE ONLINE COURSES ON SPACE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING!

Space vehicles are central to our modern world: they are the key to understanding our universe, spreading our race throughout the stars and provide ways of communication and observation that would never have been dreamed of in the past. This course offers the opportunity to learn and understand:

- The True Importance of Space Programs and the Space Industry.
- The Space Environment.
- The Engineering and Operational Purpose Behind all Spacecraft's Systems.
- The Science and Engineering Behind Rockets and Launch Vehicles. 
- The Amazing Physics Behind Orbits and How We Harness Them.

I will thoroughly detail and walk you through each of these subjects and explain down to their fundamental principles, all concepts and subject-specific vocabulary. This course is the ideal beginner or intermediate learning platform for Space and the engineering around it. Whatever your background, whether you are a student, a writer, a sci-fi addict, a computer scientist, an engineer, a business or sports person with an interest in Space, you will understand the fundamentals behind its technologies!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate, I always aim at answering within the next 24hrs.

If this sounds like it might interest you, for your personal growth, career or academic endeavours, I strongly encourage you to join! You won't regret it!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in the physics, engineering and technologies behind spacecrafts and space travel.

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