SUBJECT
Title
Astronomy from space 1-2
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2+2
Recommended in
Semesters 1-4
Typically offered in
Autumn/Spring semester
Course description
- Motivaion for space research, scieniic and social environment, poliical and legal issues
- Phases of space missions, criical points and examples
- Chronology and milestones of lunar and planetary exploraion
- High energy and infrared astronomy and space applicaions
- Space observatories and observaions
- Orbits, trajectories and maneuvers
- Rocket engines and fuels and their use
- Launch vehicles, and spaceports
- On-board systems
- Hungarian space research, achievements and science teams
- Major space research and technology insituions and organizaions (ESA, NASA, JAXA)
Readings
- Basics of Space Flight (2013), NASA, http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.php)
- Freedman and Kaufmann: Universe. 8th ed., W. H. Freeman Publ., 2007, ISBN: 978-0716785842
- Bradley et al.: Introducion to Modern Astrophysics. 2Nd ed., Benjamin Cummings Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-0805304022