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Python Code Collection for Practical Satellite Engineering: Code, Systems, and Simulation
Paperback
Series: Satellite Systems and Technology
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2025
Pages: 538
Weight: 2.72
Height: 1.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Python Code Collection for Practical Satellite Engineering: Code, Systems, and Simulation
What if you could sit down with a stack of ready-to-run code and instantly simulate the same problems that keep satellite engineers awake at night?
This book is exactly that. Not theory. Not watered-down classroom slides. But a 500+ page arsenal of Python code samples that walk you through the critical systems of modern spacecraft - power, propulsion, thermal, communications, navigation, sensing, and operations.
Every script is written to be practical, transparent, and adaptable. Copy it. Run it. Modify it for your mission. The purpose is simple: to give you working engineering tools you can put into action immediately.
Here's what you'll find inside:
Thermal survival scripts that calculate conduction through baseplates, radiation to deep space, and transient heating of RF payloads - because every watt of waste heat matters.
Power system models that track solar array output, eclipse cycles, and battery state-of-charge with realistic efficiency losses.
Propulsion code that computes delta-V budgets, mass flow, and burn durations, tied directly to Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation.
Communications link budget routines that convert dBs, antenna gains, and path losses into a usable margin you can trust.
Navigation and augmentation functions that integrate SBAS and GBAS corrections, Doppler shifts, and slant-range geometry for precise positioning.
Imaging and sensing algorithms that generate diffraction-limited point spread functions, radiometric calibration curves, and realistic noise models.
Threat detection and reliability code that flags jamming, unauthorized access, and collision risk events in a running satellite simulation.
Orbit propagation and ground pass scripts that let you visualize coverage, eclipse windows, and Doppler shifts with modern libraries like Astropy and Poliastro.
And that's just the beginning.
Every topic is framed as code-first engineering. You don't just read about satellites - you simulate them. Line by line, you'll build models that reveal the tradeoffs, risks, and performance factors of real-world space missions.
This book is for:
Engineers who want ready-to-use models for design studies, simulations, or mission analysis.
Students who want to go beyond textbooks and learn satellite systems by coding them directly.
Space enthusiasts who want a deeper look at how spacecraft actually work - through the numbers, equations, and programs that make them fly.
No glossy generalities. No fluff. Just Python code, systems, and simulations.
If you want to think, calculate, and model like a professional satellite engineer - this is your blueprint.
Python Code Collection for Practical Satellite Engineering: Code, Systems, and Simulation puts the power of real spacecraft engineering in your hands, one script at a time.
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