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.
Applied Technology Space and Satellite Training
Offers overview of courses provided in spacecraft design for engineers and scientists.
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.
Astronautics and Spacecraft Design
Offers an aerospace professor's comprehensive and updated collection of spacecraft design links.
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.
Cosmos 1: the first solar sail
The Planetary Society is developing a privately funded solar sail project with Cosmos Studios. The spacecraft will be developed, launched and operated in Russia.
Discovery Program Documents
Discovery guidelines and requirements documents. Good reference collection.
Drag-free satellites.
Experimental gravitational physics using drag-free satellites.
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.
European Space Components Information Exchange Sys
Facilitates European space industry to share information on satellite components
GAO Space
Description of GAO Associates plus source of free code for space applications and support for aerospace.
JPL Part Reliablility
Guidelines for parts selection and space reliability.COTS parts used in Space applications.
JPL Radiation Effects Database
RADNET-Interactive contains radiation effects test data for total ionizing dose (TID)and single event effects (SEE).
Laboratory for Spacecraft and Mission Design
A laboratory of the California Institute of Technology dedicated to developing low cost conceptual spacecraft design tools for concurrent space systems engineering.
Manned Mission To Mars: Manned Mars Vehicle System
An analysis of the viability of a potential manned mission to Mars.
Martian Wind Riding Rover
Offer technical paper on a method to explore Mars' surface.
NASA Lessons Learned
NASA Lessons Learned Information System. Appears access is restricted to NASA and approved contractors.
NASA Parts Selection List
Provides catalogs and specifications for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts to use in space systems.
QuakeSat small satellite - Stanford University
A small satellite project to detect earthquakes from outer space, developed by students at Stanford University and Quakefinder in Palo Alto, CA
Radiation Dose, Shielding, and Modeling Reports
http://polyrad.org/Radiation%20Dose,%20Shielding,%20Shield%20Design,%20and%20Dose%20Modeling%20Paper
A few technical reports in PDF format covering space radiation dose minimization, radiation shielding concepts, radiation shield design, and dosimetry.
Radiation-effects.com
Provide radiation effects services including measurements, data analysis, environment defintion, and technology assessment for space applications.
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.
Satellite Communication: References
Reference papers and links.
Slate - Where Satellites Go When They Die
Describes the process of and planning for decommissioning and "parking" of geosynchronous satellites.
Small Satellites Home Page
Extensive collection of information on small satellites (nano-satellites and larger) and their uses.
Software Engineering and Standardisation Section,
Provides documentation, tools and project news from the spacecraft software section of the European Space Agency.
Space Design Links
Links on satellite cost, thermal and environmental design.
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.
Space Environments & Effects Program
NASA's space environment program. Features overview, news, flight experiements, mathematical models and publications.
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.
Spacecraft
Weblog for Discussion of Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control, and News.
Spacecraft Technology Center at Texas A&M Univ
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.
Spacecraft Weather Hazard and Anomaly Forecasting
Provides software and data repository for analysing and predicting space environment threats to spacecraft.
SpaceWire UK
Design services for the space industry, focusing mainly on SpaceWire, the new communications standard adopted by ESA and NASA for future missions.
Starnav 1 experiment mission web site
Starnav 1 startracker experiment that flew on STS-107 Columbia mission.
The Radiation Environment
Radiation environment for space.