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Antenna Design
Class notes

Satellite Communications, 2nd edition, Pratt, Bostian, and Allnutt. Wiley, 2003.

http://www.dailywireless.org/2010/11/14/skyterra-1-launched/

Propulsion & Power systems
Conceptual Design of a 100-K We Space Nuclear Reactor Power System with high power AMTEC, By Mohamed S. EL-Genk and Jean-Michel Tournier.

Lecture23-Nuclear power in space, By G. L . Kulcinsky.

The Vasimr Engine: project status and recent accomplishments, By F.R. Chang Díaz, J.P. Squire, T. Glover, A. J. Petro, E. A. Bering III, F.W. Baity Jr., R.H. Goulding, M. D. Carter, R.D. Bengtson, B. N. Breizman

http://www.nasa.gov

Launch
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/vgrfs.htm

http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/s/space/www/voyager/voyager_traj/traj3d/traj3d.html

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/delheavy.htm

Communication Systems
Coding, Modulation, and Relays for Deep Space Communication Mars Rovers Case Study, By Joseph I. Statman & Charles D. Edwards.

Digital Communications Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition By Bernard Sklar.

Bandwidth-Efficient Digital Modulation with Application to Deep-Space Communications, By Marvin K. Simon.

Turbo Codes, By Emilia Käsper.

Resiliency of Electronics
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMPT2V4QWD_extreme_0.html

Image Compression
Introduction to Data Compression, 2nd edition, Khalid Sayood. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.