Three massive volumes--and their contents in digital format on CD-ROM (included)--present the proceedings of the February 2010 meeting held in San Diego, California; the set follows others on the topic of spaceflight mechanics, published as a subseries of the American Astronautical Society's "Advances in the Astronautical Sciences" series. Engineers, scientists, and mathematicians affiliated with government agencies, the military, industry, and academia were in attendance for 157 papers presented in 24 sessions. Themes include: trajectory design and optimization; spacecraft guidance, navigation and control; dynamical systems theory; atmospheric re-entry and lunar mission analysis; orbital dynamics; attitude dynamics and control; space surveillance; satellite relative motion; interplanetary trajectory designs; satellite constellations; planetary missions; trajectory solution techniques; spaceflight safety; attitude sensors data processing; orbital perturbations; near earth object missions; and space structures dynamics and control. There's no subject index in the printed set (only an author list), but presumably the CD-ROM is searchable. Published by Univelt for the American Astronautical Society. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
