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 pioneering book addresses all aspects of this problem, including:

• Technology and processes for reducing cost
• Cost reduction in mission engineering, spacecraft design, manufacture, launch, and operations
• Implementation methods and problems
• The price of reducing cost
• 10 detailed case studies of what works in practice in:
  • Science missions
  ...

Mission Geometry; Orbit and Constellation Design and Management (OCDM) is the most complete treatment available for many elements of space mission design and astronautics. Among these topics not covered elsewhere in the literature are:

• The most extensive coverage available of constellation design and management;
• Relative motion of satellites (global, local, at similar and widely differing altitudes);
• Definition of an Orbit Cost Function for comparing the cost of access to and maintenance of alternative orbits;...