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• - Starnav 1 startracker experiment that flew on STS-107 Columbia mission.
  
• - Design services for the space industry, focusing mainly on SpaceWire, the new communications standard adopted by ESA and NASA for future missions.
  
• - STC promotes commercially funded engineering research and technology development using the International Space Station (ISS) or other orbiting platforms as a test bed for developing and validating advanced spacecraft technology.
  
• - Discovery guidelines and requirements documents. Good reference collection.
  
• - Extensive collection of information on small satellites (nano-satellites and larger) and their uses.
  
• - Experimental gravitational physics using drag-free satellites.
  
• - Provides catalogs and specifications for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts to use in space systems.
  
• - Links on satellite cost, thermal and environmental design.
  
• - Reference papers and links.
  
• - Provides software and data repository for analysing and predicting space environment threats to spacecraft.
  
• - Offers comprehensive directory.
  
• - Design of space flight instruments, providing a range of services from conceptual studies to detailed design and analysis and the definition and management of tests.
  
• - Description of GAO Associates plus source of free code for space applications and support for aerospace.
  
• - Site exploring the past, present, and future of space warfare.
  
• - Add-ons for orbiter space flight simulator created for educational purposes and includes spacecraft, satelittes, interplanetary probes and surface bases. Also competing in the virtual x-prize.
  
• - The Rosetta mission is an interplanetary mission whose main objective is to rendezvous with and make in-situ measurements of comet 46 P/Wirtanen. Design drivers and requirements.
  
• - Describes the process of and planning for decommissioning and "parking" of geosynchronous satellites.
  
• - Provides data and tools on radiation, debris and other effects on space systems in flight. Includes scientific articles and events.
  
• - Offers overview of courses provided in spacecraft design for engineers and scientists.
  
• - SATSOFT is used for communication satellite antenna design, analysis, and coverage planning. Quickly assess antenna coverage and gain, conduct antenna sizing studies, develop shaped beam and multibeam antenna designs, and perform other satellite payload
  
• - RADNET-Interactive contains radiation effects test data for total ionizing dose (TID)and single event effects (SEE).
  
• - A few technical reports in PDF format covering space radiation dose minimization, radiation shielding concepts, radiation shield design, and dosimetry.
  
• - An analysis of the viability of a potential manned mission to Mars.
  
• - A laboratory of the California Institute of Technology dedicated to developing low cost conceptual spacecraft design tools for concurrent space systems engineering.
  
• - NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Includes organization, key personnel, mission, activities branches, and space-related bulletin boards.
  
• - Facilitates European space industry to share information on satellite components
  
• - Radiation environment for space.
  
• - Provides documentation, tools and project news from the spacecraft software section of the European Space Agency.
  
• - Offer technical paper on a method to explore Mars' surface.
  
• - RADiation and its Effect on Components and Systems. Updated information about RADECS association and RADECS conferences will be available on this site in English.
  
• - Weblog for Discussion of Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control, and News.
  
• - Provide radiation effects services including measurements, data analysis, environment defintion, and technology assessment for space applications.
  
• - Offers an aerospace professor's comprehensive and updated collection of spacecraft design links.
  
• - Guidelines for parts selection and space reliability.COTS parts used in Space applications.
  
• - A small satellite project to detect earthquakes from outer space, developed by students at Stanford University and Quakefinder in Palo Alto, CA
  
• - NASA's space environment program. Features overview, news, flight experiements, mathematical models and publications.
  
• - The Planetary Society is developing a privately funded solar sail project with Cosmos Studios. The spacecraft will be developed, launched and operated in Russia.
  
• - NASA Lessons Learned Information System. Appears access is restricted to NASA and approved contractors.