Volume 3, Issue 1 (2019) | Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology

Giant Success for NASA when the InSight Probe has Reached "Safety" on Mars

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-02-28

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 28 February 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.1.10

InSight-Studying the 'Inner Space' of Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first...

Mars Could have Enough Molecular Oxygen to Support Life

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-02-28

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 28 February 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.11.23

There is a recently introduced study that proposes the idea of the possibility of salty water somewhere on the surface of the planet Mars or immediately near the surface but in the basement of the pla...

Pitch Control of a Rocket with a Novel LQG/LTR Control Algorithm

Aliyu Bhar Kisabo — 2019-03-12

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 12 March 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.24.37

This paper presents the design, simulation and analysis of a novel LQG and LQG/LTR control algorithm for the pitch angle of a sounding rocket. These improved LQG and LQG/LTR control algorithms stem fr...

About Boeing X-32

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-01

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 1 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.38.54

The Boeing X-32 is a demonstration jet designed for the Joint Strike Fighter contest. He lost the Lockheed Martin X-35 demonstrator, which was further developed in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning I...

Corrigendum: Modern Propulsions for Aerospace-A Review

Relly Victoria Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.63

Corrigendum: Modern Propulsions for Aerospace-Part II

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.62

Corrigendum: History of Aviation-A Short Review

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.60

Corrigendum: Lockheed Martin-A Short Review

Relly Victoria Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.61

Corrigendum: Our Universe

Relly Victoria Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.59

Corrigendum: What is a UFO?

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.58

Corrigendum: About Bell Helicopter FCX-001 Concept Aircraft-A Short Review

Relly Victoria Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.57

Corrigendum: Home at Airbus

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.56

Corrigendum: Airlander

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-29

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.55

China Launches Its First Passenger Aircraft

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-12

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 12 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.64.77

C919, the passenger plane developed by China within a national project, was successfully launched at the inauguration of its flight. After a series of long delays, this is only the first step by which...

NASA and the Conquest of Cosmic Space by Man

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-13

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 13 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.78.91

The man has dreamed of flying ever since he started to go and he first looked up to heaven. But the desire to conquer the cosmic space appeared obviously much later when the technologies developed to ...

“Defiant”, a Today Unique Helicopter in the World

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-04-15

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 15 April 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.92.106

You do not see helicopters like this every day. Sikorsky-Boeing SB1 Defiant in his first demonstration flight showed that it is much more than just a fancy design on paper as he could initially think,...

The TESS Satellite will Search for Planets in the Vicinity of our Solar System

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-05-23

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 23 May 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.107.118

The US Space Agency has launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the TESS satellite, which will search for planets near our solar system and study them in detail. "TESS will significantly increase the n...

Novel Approach for Characterizing Solid Rocket Motor (SRM)

Aliyu Bhar Kisabo — 2019-05-24

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 24 May 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.119.127

To characterize SRM, the motor needs to be tested on a static test rig and certain performers indicators evaluated. In this study, the thrust with time from the SRM was acquired via a Digital Acquisit...

State-Space Modelling of a Rocket for Optimal Control System Design

Aliyu Bhar Kisabo — 2019-05-25

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 25 May 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.128.137

In this study, we present the derivation of the mathematical model for a rocket’s autopilot in state-space. The basic equations defining the airframe dynamics of a typical six-Degree-of-Freedom (6Do...

Boeing's Autonomous Military Aircraft

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2019-06-17

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 17 June 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.138.153

Boeing will build a self-propelled military aircraft to accompany US combat aircraft during missions. Boeing's autonomous airplane will achieve superior flying performance to those pilots even with ...

NASA’s Exploration Missions to the Red Planet

Santosh Kosambe — 2019-07-06

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 6 July 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.154.171

The exploration missions to the red planet were started in 1960 by the Soviet Union, since then the planet has gain attention of all the scientists and explorers worldwide. Several exploration mission...

Mission Shakti aka Project XSV-1: India’s First Anti-Satellite Test (ASAT)

Santosh Kosambe — 2019-07-25

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 25 July 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.172.182

The Mission Shakti, also called as Project XSV-1 was India’s first Anti-Satellite Test (ASAT) conducted successfully on 27 March 2019. The PDV-MK II interceptor missile designed and developed by Def...

Heat Generation/Absorption Effect on Natural Convection Flow in a Vertical Annulus with Time-Periodic Boundary Conditions

Michael O. Oni — 2019-07-27

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 27 July 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.183.196

The role of heat generation/absorption on natural convection flow formation in a vertical annulus with prescribed time-periodic heating is investigated in this article. The governing continuity, momen...

Overview of Space Debris Mitigation Activities in ISRO

Santosh Kosambe — 2019-09-20

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 20 September 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.197.210

For several decades orbital debris has been identified as a serious concern by all space-faring agencies and nations as it potentially threatens the current and future space endeavors. The Indian Spac...

Control of Twin Rotor MIMO System using PID and LQR Controller

Seema Chaudhary — 2019-10-23

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 23 October 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.211.220

Control design of a TRMS system such as helicopter is very complicated task. Since the TRMS are very high non-linear system, so its non-linearity too high and the control design is very difficult prob...

Chandrayaan-2: India’s Second Lunar Exploration Mission

Santosh Kosambe — 2019-11-02

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 2 November 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.221.236

The Moon has always been the center of attention for mankind, more than any other heavenly body in the night sky. With the early history of the solar system etched on it, the Moon challenges mankind f...

Hardening Effects of In-Situ Aging for a Laser Welded Maraging Steel

Milton Sergio Fernandes de Lima — 2019-11-12

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 12 November 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.237.247

Maraging steels are ultra-high strength alloys which have been successfully laser welded to obtain structural components. For most of the applications these steels are in an aged state to attain tensi...

Spectral and Luminescence Properties of Manganese Doped Sodium Lead Alumino Borosilicate Glass System

K. Vijaya Babu — 2019-11-22

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Published online: 22 November 2019; doi:10.3844/jastsp.2019.248.255

Na2O-PbO-Al2O3-B2O3-SiO2 glasses mixed with different concentrations of MnO (ranging from 0.3 to 0.9 mol %) was prepared by melt quenching technique. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffractio...