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11:22 am
March 9, 2010
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tnylund
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I've been trying to read most of the topics here over the last few days, but I am generally left very confused by all the technical terms and acronyms. I'm wondering if there are any books for a space newbie (like myself) that teaches the basic fundamentals of what we're dealing with. Essentially I'm looking for a crash course in SPACE / ROCKET SCIENCE 101. I feel that I should learn the basics before trying to comprehend what's going on in the OHKLA / CLLARE projects. Gaining a better understanding of these concepts will also translate to better promotional materials, as the information will be easier to convey to a broader audience.
So… which texts/books do you guys recommend? Any help would be appreciated.
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11:37 am
March 9, 2010
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DenisG
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Post edited 11:38 am – March 9, 2010 by DenisG
I personally recommend to check out your local library; especially university libraries have TONS of great material. There are a lot of awesome books out there. I personally can mostly only recommend german literature, since that's what I mostly have at my local library.
Another option is stuff on the web. NASA has a lot of material, but wading through that is hard work in itself. You might want to take a look at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-…../bgmr.html but it is confusing and kind of sucks.
But yeah, a recommended reading page is very important. This is said at http://cstart.org/wiki/Getting….._in_CLLARE btw too. Especially check http://cstart.org/wiki/index.p…..ed+reading
Right now I'm writing a document myself titled "Conditions Encountered by a Spacecraft on Suporbital Flight" which gives a basic overview over the rather vast area as well as provides details and many references for further reading. I'm planning on writing a similar document titled "Overview of Aerodynamics and Aerothermodynamics during Ascent."
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11:42 am
March 9, 2010
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DenisG
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I also just found http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.php which looks pretty good! Introduces quite a lot of basics needed to understand space sciences.
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3:43 pm
March 9, 2010
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tnylund
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DenisG said:I also just found http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.php which looks pretty good! Introduces quite a lot of basics needed to understand space sciences.
This is great! I think I'll print this out and read it tonight. Thanks, DenisG. 
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4:40 pm
March 9, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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That NASA basics document DenisG just pointed you to is a good one, it was posted to the /r/tothemoon subreddit quite early on in this project so a lot of us got started from there.
With my recent posts about the new CLLARE post I have been using a lot of acronyms. These are:
- LEO = Low Earth Orbit, an orbit around the Earth with an altitude of 200 – 2000 km.
- EVA = Extra Vehicular Actitivy, anything which involves being outside of a spacecraft (a spacewalk, or walking on the lunar surface)
- TLI = Trans Lunar Injection, a large engine burn done while in Earth obit to put a spacecraft on a trajectory that takes it to the moon.
- LOI = Lunar Orbit Insertion, a moderate sized engine burn done after TLI once the spacecraft is close to the moon, which slows the craft down so that the moon's gravity can capture it and the craft enters a lunar orbit, rather than simply flying by the moon.
- TEI = Trans Earth Injection, a fairly small engine burn done while in lunar orbit to put a spacecraft on a trajectory that takes it back to Earth – the opposite concept of TLI.
I think that's most of them, if there are any others that are confusing you, please just ask.
How do people feel about us making a Glossary page in the Wiki?
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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4:45 pm
March 9, 2010
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DenisG
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That would make a lot of sense. Please start one!
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6:43 pm
March 9, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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I have stubbed out a glossary page. I need to get a few things done for my university work right now, but I will start filling the entries out later on today sometime (I'll use being able to do this as motivation during my uni work!).
Of course, anybody else can feel free to start working on the glossary before me or at any time after!
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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12:16 pm
April 24, 2010
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forever_erratic
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tnylund said:
I've been trying to read most of the topics here over the last few days, but I am generally left very confused by all the technical terms and acronyms. I'm wondering if there are any books for a space newbie (like myself) that teaches the basic fundamentals of what we're dealing with. Essentially I'm looking for a crash course in SPACE / ROCKET SCIENCE 101. I feel that I should learn the basics before trying to comprehend what's going on in the OHKLA / CLLARE projects. Gaining a better understanding of these concepts will also translate to better promotional materials, as the information will be easier to convey to a broader audience.
So… which texts/books do you guys recommend? Any help would be appreciated.
Hi tnylund, I think it would be great for us to know and provide good resources on this. Like you, I'm a rocket science noob – when we start needing biology expertise I'm there but until then I don't want to just be picking my nose.
Here is a good website I've found (I'm only 1/3 through but the descriptions are clear and well-written). It starts with the history then describes basic rocketry going up to (what seems to me) some very specific issues.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101…..Basics.htm
Still, I want to reiterate how important a good starter's guide would be. I'll see what I can do.
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