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Space and Air Transport Operations - AERO4500
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: AERO3110 and Corequisite: AERO3640
 
 
Excluded: AERO4620, AVEN3420
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course will focus on aspects of space and air-transport engineering not covered in the discipline-based courses. Space engineering: launch to orbit, the three-body problem, orbit selection and prediction, inter-planetary space flight tracking, manoeuvring and rendezvous. Dynamics of space launchers and space vehicles. Reliability analysis of complex systems. Mission control and management. Airline engineering: introduction to aviation law and regulation. Aircraft evaluation, fleet planning and asset management. Through-life support including airframe and system maintenance, ground support and equipment. Reliability. Failure modes, effects and criticality analysis. Condition monitoring, non-destructive inspection and repair. Data acquisition and analysis.


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