Spacecraft and Satellite Design

Aerospace Systems, Concepts, and Analysis - NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Includes organization, key personnel, mission, activities branches, and space-related bulletin boards.
discovery.larc.nasa.gov/

Applied Technology Space and Satellite Training - Offers overview of courses provided in spacecraft design for engineers and scientists.
www.aticourses.com/

Association RADECS - RADiation and its Effect on Components and Systems. Updated information about RADECS association and RADECS conferences will be available on this site in English.
www.radecs.org/

Astronautics and Spacecraft Design - Offers an aerospace professor's comprehensive and updated collection of spacecraft design links.
ame-www.usc.edu/bio/mikeg/astromike/index.html

Communications Satellite Software - SATSOFT is used for communication satellite antenna design, analysis, and coverage planning. Quickly assess antenna coverage and gain, conduct antenna sizing studies, develop shaped beam and multibeam antenna designs, and perform other satellite payload engineering tasks.
www.satsoft.com/distributors.htm

Discovery Program Documents - Discovery guidelines and requirements documents. Good reference collection.
discovery.larc.nasa.gov/discovery/dpl.html

Drag-free satellites. - Experimental gravitational physics using drag-free satellites.
www.dragfreesatellite.com/

eclipse aerospace - Add-ons for orbiter space flight simulator created for educational purposes and includes spacecraft, satelittes, interplanetary probes and surface bases. Also competing in the virtual x-prize.
www.freewebs.com/eclipseaerospace/

European Space Components Information Exchange System - Facilitates European space industry to share information on satellite components
http://tylerschnaidt.com/blocked/nph-index.pl/010110A/https/escies.org/

GAO Space - Description of GAO Associates plus source of free code for space applications and support for aerospace.
www.gaoassociates.com

JPL Part Reliablility - Guidelines for parts selection and space reliability.COTS parts used in Space applications.
parts.jpl.nasa.gov/

Manned Mission To Mars: Manned Mars Vehicle System Final Report - An analysis of the viability of a potential manned mission to Mars.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/7191/

NASA Lessons Learned - NASA Lessons Learned Information System. Appears access is restricted to NASA and approved contractors.
www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/llis/home/

NASA Parts Selection List - Provides catalogs and specifications for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts to use in space systems.
nepp.nasa.gov/npsl/

The Radiation Environment - Radiation environment for space.
www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/wma/Background/rad_env.html

Radiation-effects.com - Provide radiation effects services including measurements, data analysis, environment defintion, and technology assessment for space applications.
www.radiation-effects.com

Rosetta Spacecraft Design - The Rosetta mission is an interplanetary mission whose main objective is to rendezvous with and make in-situ measurements of comet 46 P/Wirtanen. Design drivers and requirements.
sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=13

Slate - Where Satellites Go When They Die - Describes the process of and planning for decommissioning and "parking" of geosynchronous satellites.
slate.com/id/2117519/

Small Satellites Home Page - Extensive collection of information on small satellites (nano-satellites and larger) and their uses.
centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/index.html

Software Engineering and Standardisation Section, ESA - Provides documentation, tools and project news from the spacecraft software section of the European Space Agency.
www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/EME/index.htm

Space Design Links - Links on satellite cost, thermal and environmental design.
www.ssl.umd.edu/space/design.html

Space Environment and Effects Section, ESA - Provides data and tools on radiation, debris and other effects on space systems in flight. Includes scientific articles and events.
www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/WMA/

Space Environment Links - Offers comprehensive directory.
www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/WMA/other.html

Space Environments & Effects Program - NASA's space environment program. Features overview, news, flight experiements, mathematical models and publications.
see.msfc.nasa.gov/

Space Mechanical & Thermal Engineering Group - Design of space flight instruments, providing a range of services from conceptual studies to detailed design and analysis and the definition and management of tests.
www.sstd.rl.ac.uk/Mectherm

Space War - Site exploring the past, present, and future of space warfare.
spacewar.netfirms.com

Spacecraft - Weblog for Discussion of Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control, and News.
www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space

Spacecraft Technology Center at Texas A&M University - STC promotes commercially funded engineering research and technology development using the International Space Station (ISS) or other orbiting platforms as a test bed for developing and validating advanced spacecraft technology.
stc.tamu.edu

SpaceWire UK - Design services for the space industry, focusing mainly on SpaceWire, the new communications standard adopted by ESA and NASA for future missions.
www.spacewire.co.uk

Starnav 1 experiment mission web site - Starnav 1 startracker experiment that flew on STS-107 Columbia mission.
starnav1.tamu.edu