The Space Environment and Its Effects on Space Systems (AIAA Education Series)

This textbook helps readers understand the space environment and its impacts on spacecraft design, engineering, and performance. While the primary emphasis of the book is the Earth's environment and its effects on spacecraft, it also addresses the extraterrestrial environment and the effects of radiation on humans in space.

VINCENT L. PISACANE is the former inaugural Robert A. Heinlein Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the United States Naval Academy. He also served as head of the Space Department, Assistant Director for Research and Exploratory Development, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology in Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He also held a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University, an M.S. in Applied Mechanics and Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and Physics from Michigan State University, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has been the principal investigator of several NASA grants and is the editor of a book on space systems engineering and the author of well over a hundred publications and presentations on space systems. He currently teaches graduate classes on space systems engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a fellow of the AIAA.