ARO 614 - Aircraft and Spacecraft Design (4)

Crosslisted as: General design philosophy. Vehicle mission planning and conceptual design. Oral and written presentations of system subcomponents and design. Proposal preparation and writing. Aircraft: constraint diagrams, mission concept of operations. Vehicle sizing and propulsion system selection. Overall design layout, preliminary wing, tail, fuselage design. Detailed weight breakdown. Takeoff and landing performance. Flight loads and structural design. Flight envelope and V-n diagram, detailed flight performance prediction. Stability and control, flying qualities. Economics of flight and operations, maintenance, cost estimation. Spacecraft: launch vehicle and payload selection. Spacecraft design drivers. Mass and power estimation. Design of structure, propulsion, thermal control, attitude control, power system, telecommunications, command and data systems. System life cycle and cost estimation. Design tradeoffs in multi-disciplined space systems. Detailed performance predictions.