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Van Kesteren, M.W. (author)During the entire era of space flight air launch is seen as a very promising concept. Despite its claimed advantages, air launch is up till now only a marginal success with the Pegasus launch vehicle from Orbital Sciences. In this study is investigated for which conditions expendable air launched vehicles can achieve a performance gain compared...master thesis 2013
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Vandamme, J.M.V. (author)55 years have passed since the launch of the first man-made space vehicle, Sputnik 1. While spaceflight has changed significantly in many ways, further improvement in rocket technology is still being pursued. Launch-assist systems, which give the launch vehicle a combination of initial velocity and initial altitude, could create such an...master thesis 2012
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Engelen, F.M. (author)These days more and more rockets are developed by companies, students and other amateurs. To assess the safety of these rockets, a method is necessary to estimate the risk of these vehicles quantitatively. Because tools to do so are not freely available, the goal of this thesis is to research methods to quantitatively estimate the risk of...master thesis 2012
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Root, B.C. (author)The Cryosat-2 mission is an European Space Agency mission with the main objective to measure and monitor the variation in sea-ice and main ice sheets on Earth, located at Greenland and Antarctic. The satellite's main instrument is a state of the art altimeter, which can measure the distance between the satellite and the ice surface with extreme...master thesis 2012
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Van Doorn, S. (author)A transition through the Earth's atmosphere is inevitable if it is desired to bring or return something useful from space. The transition is also known as the atmospheric entry, which is characterised by a highly energetic vehicle. Three types of entry can be distinguished: ballistic, glide and skip entry. In the hypersonic transition of a glide...master thesis 2010
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Boere, M. (author)Four decades after Neil Armstrong's 1st steps on the Moon the time has come to take it one step further, the permanent occupation of humans on lunar soil. Permanent occupation of humans will revive the dream of exploring space and will open the doors for space flight to Mars or even further. For this reason this project investigates the...master thesis 2010
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Silvestri, N. (author)Saturn’s moon Titan is unique in that it is the only moon in the Solar System with a significant atmosphere. Its atmosphere is thicker than the Earth’s and it contains several layers of hazes. Knowing the properties of the hazes is crucial for understanding the existence and evolution of this atmosphere and the dynamical processes that take...master thesis 2010
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Pagano, A. (author)In the past few years, a new spirit for the exploration of the Solar System spread among the space community and reaching the Moon has been set as the first step of this new program. In this frame, going back to the Moon is needed to familiarize with a new way of living in a different environment, adapting to it and testing new technology. It is...master thesis 2010
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Van der Weg, W.J. (author)Understanding the Sun's natural processes helps us to understand how the Earth responds to the Sun's variations and helps improve our ability to predict its behavior. A probe in polar orbit around the Sun would be able to help provide a more complete picture of the Sun by studying coronal features from various angles, by linking particle and...master thesis 2010
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Gorter, H.P.D. (author)The Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC) is a competition that seeks to stimulate improvements in the fields of mission analysis and optimization. This research focuses on the problem posed in the second version of the competition, GTOC2. The problem concerns an asteroid tour mission, where the asteroids are subdivided into 4 groups...master thesis 2010
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Zuccarelli, V. (author)This work is part of the ESA-project, that wants a preliminary study about the feasibility of building a permanent base on the south pole of the Moon, before July 1st 2020. Moreover after having completed the building phase, the maintenance has to be guaranteed for at least another ten years during the operational phase. The problem is tackled...master thesis 2009
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Tantardini, M.T. (author)In this contribution, we investigate several trajectory design methods to transfer a spacecraft to the L3 point of the Sun-Earth Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP). Such a study aims at performing an investigation into an area that is so far little explored: the vicinity of L3 has never been the destination of a space mission, and in...master thesis 2009
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Jara Orue, H.M. (author)Europa, the smallest of the Galilean satellites, is characterized by a young water-ice surface showing a rich structure of cracks, ridges and chaotic terrain. Below the ice shell a subsurface water-ocean might exist, which in Europa’s case would be in direct contact with the silicate mantle. This direct contact is important from an...master thesis 2009
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Ruevekamp, S. (author)This thesis presentation will discuss stability assessments of orbits around asteroids, with in particular the asteroid Eros. The gravity field of an asteroid can be estimated using different techniques. For the thesis work presented the Polyhedron, Spherical Harmonic Expansion and Triaxial Ellipsoid methods are implemented on the Eros case. The...master thesis 2009
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Uitendaal, M. (author)On March 17, 2009, a rocket named Stratos was launched, by Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering, or DARE in short. The purpose of this rocket was to break the European altitude record for amateur rockets which was 10.7 km at that time. A design of a small sounding rocket, such as Stratos, is a good example of an interdisciplinary challenge. An...master thesis 2009
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- Paulino, T. (author) master thesis 2008
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Broerse, D.B.T. (author)The SUBDUCT (Surface Behavior and Dynamical Units of the Southeast Carpathians Tectonics) research program, in which the TU Delft participates, aims to model the surface kinematics of a 350 x 350 km wide area around the Vrancea seismic region in Romania by means of GPS observations. The goal of the project is to relate surface motions to the...master thesis 2007
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Rietbroek, R. (author)The satellite mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) provides monthly solutions of the global gravity field of the Earth. Temporal variations in gravity reflect mass redistributions over the Earth. Those mass movements are caused by physical phenomena such as ice sheet dynamics, accumulation of hydrological masses over land, the...master thesis 2007
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- Melman, J.C.P. (author) master thesis 2007
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