Aerospace architecture
Encyclopedia
Aerospace architecture is broadly defined to encompass architectural
design of non-habitable and habitable structures and living and working environments in aerospace-related facilities, habitats, and vehicles. These environments include, but are not limited to: science platform aircraft and aircraft-deployable systems; space vehicles, space station
s, habitats and lunar and planetary surface construction
bases; and earth-based control, experiment, launch, logistics, payload, simulation and test facilities. Earth analogs to space applications may include Antarctic, desert, high altitude, underground, undersea environments and closed ecological systems.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA) Design Engineering Technical Committee (DETC) meets several times a year to discuss policy, education, standards, and practice issues pertaining to aerospace architecture. See http://www.spacearchitect.org/
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
design of non-habitable and habitable structures and living and working environments in aerospace-related facilities, habitats, and vehicles. These environments include, but are not limited to: science platform aircraft and aircraft-deployable systems; space vehicles, space station
Space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...
s, habitats and lunar and planetary surface construction
Planetary surface construction
Planetary Surface Construction refers to artificial habitats and other structures constructed on the surface of other planets than Earth, asteroids, and other heavenly bodies...
bases; and earth-based control, experiment, launch, logistics, payload, simulation and test facilities. Earth analogs to space applications may include Antarctic, desert, high altitude, underground, undersea environments and closed ecological systems.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society , founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society , and the Institute...
(AIAA) Design Engineering Technical Committee (DETC) meets several times a year to discuss policy, education, standards, and practice issues pertaining to aerospace architecture. See http://www.spacearchitect.org/
External links
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Design Engineering Technical Committee of the AIAA
- Spacearchitect.org
- Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA)
- MOTHER Aerospace Architecture consultancy
- Architecture and Vision, Design Studio specializing on Aerospace Architecture and Technology Transfer
- LIQUIFER Systems Group, interdisciplinary design team developing architecture, design and systems for Earth and Space
- Synthesis, a fundamental design collaborative with experts from Space Architecture, Engineering and Industrial Design
- Earth2Orbit, Satellite & Launch Services, Human Space Systems, Robotic Systems, Infrastructure and High-Tech Facilities, Consulting
- The Galactic Suite Space Hotel
- Galactic Suite Design Aerospace Architecture and Experiences