Publisher Description

Reducing Space Mission Cost is the first complete treatment of the technology, process, and problems in the most critical areas of modern spaceflight. The demand to reduce cost is unrelenting. This text addresses all aspects of this problem, including: technology and processes for reducing cost; cost reduction in mission engineering, spacecraft design, manufacture, launch, and operations;impleme ntation methods and problems; the price of reducing cost; and case studies of what works in practice in science missions, interplanetary probes, communications spacecraft, and test and applications missions. Beginning on the inside front cover, the book provides real cost data on a variety of missions, systems, and subsystems, and challenges traditional methods, yet recognizes that all space programs are run to minimize cost within the rules under which they are built and flown. This book is a follow-on to the now standard text and reference, "Space Mission Analysis and Design", also edited by Drs. Wertz and Larson. It is aimed at professionals, students, and managers in astronautics or space sciences and managers or scientists involved in space experiments.

Table of Contents

Preface. Part I: Process Changes to Reduce Cost. 1. Introduction. 2. Process Changes to Reduce Cost. 3. Technology for Reduced Cost Missions. 4. Reducing Launch Cost. 5. Reducing Spacecraft Cost. 6. Reducing Mission Operations Cost. 7. Design-to-Cost for Space Missions. 8. Cost Modelling. 9. Reliability Considerations. 10. Implementation Strategies and Problems. Part II: Case Studies. 11. Science Missions. 12. Interplanetary Probes. 13. Communications, Test, and Applications Missions. Appendix. Index.

Review

`The editors ... are already well known for Space Mission Analysis and Design, so much would be expected of another major work ... Reducing Space Mission Cost does not disappoint. Wertz, Larson and 26 other authors have put together a compendium of wisdom on methods in systems engineering and project management to achieve low cost satellite programmes. The strength ... is that the suggestions and strategies are always discussed in a balanced and realistic manner. The benefits are compared with the disadvantages and it is made clear that not every lesson is applicable in every case. ... examples and authors come from both Europe and America increasing the scope and balance of the coverage. ... anybody with a good background in spacecraft systems engineering and technical management will find this book stimulating and challenging.'
Aerospace International, August 1997

Long Description

Copyright Microcosm and Wiley Larson.

Review Quote

'The editors ... are already well known for Space Mission Analysis and Design, so much would be expected of another major work ... Reducing Space Mission Cost does not disappoint. Wertz, Larson and 26 other authors have put together a compendium of wisdom on methods in systems engineering and project management to achieve low cost satellite programmes. The strength ... is that the suggestions and strategies are always discussed in a balanced and realistic manner. The benefits are compared with the disadvantages and it is made clear that not every lesson is applicable in every case. ... examples and authors come from both Europe and America increasing the scope and balance of the coverage. ... anybody with a good background in spacecraft systems engineering and technical management will find this book stimulating and challenging.' Aerospace International, August 1997

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