Launch Vehicles

Below, a description of the subjects treated during the Launch Vehicles course is given.

• Missions, current European launchers
• Recall of orbital dynamics, orbital maneuvers, visibility, orbital perturbations
• Launcher trajectory optimization
• Flight sequence, transitory phases
• GNC and Flight Software
• Mechanical design and Structures analysis design
• Propulsion: cycles, subsystems, equipment and transitory phases, solid propulsion
• Launcher pyrotechnics
• Launcher avionics and Thrust Vectoring
• Product Assurance, reliability, safety
• Development logic, production
• Ground aspects, launch base
• Future launchers