Standard Handbook for Aerospace Engineers, Second Edition

Dr. Brij Agrawal is a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of Spacecraft Research and Design Center and Adaptive Optics Center of Excellence for National Security at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Prior to joining  NPS in 1989, Dr. Agrawal  worked for 20 years in research, design and development of communications Satellites at COMSAT and INTELSAT. He wrote first textbook on spacecraft design "Design of Geosynchronous Spacecraft." He is a Fellow of Amercian Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Academician, International Academy of Astronautics. Dr. Max Platzer is a distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Prior to joining NPS in 1970 he was a member of the Saturn space launch vehicle development team at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and head of the aeromechanics research group at the Lockheed-Georgia Research Center. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.