This review paper attempts to provide a useful reference for space habitat designs that
advance the ability of humans to live in space for long periods of time. Five space habitat …

Abstract The widely used First Order Reliability Method (FORM) is efficient for uncertainty
quantification and safety assessment in Uncertainty-based Multidisciplinary Design …

Partially reusable launch vehicle design has raised a great interest in order to minimize the
costs of space transportation by recovering and refurbishing the first stage. Several …

Multi-fidelity approaches combine different models built on a scarce but accurate dataset
(high-fidelity dataset), and a large but approximate one (low-fidelity dataset) in order to …

Bayesian Optimization has become a widely used approach to perform optimization
involving computationally intensive black-box functions, such as the design optimization of …

Migration to Mars and building livable habitation gradually become prosperous and arduous
roads for human progress. Although many technical breakthroughs have been achieved for …

This paper proposes an optimal staging procedure of a reusable launch vehicle considering
its life cycle operations. Instead of minimizing the lift-off mass of a single launch adopted by …

The precooling technology is an effective way to expand the flight envelope of the turbine
engine. To solve the problem of engine performance degradation caused by excessive fuel …

Identifying the optimal design of a new launch vehicle is most important because design
decisions made in the early development phase limit the later performance of the vehicles …

For the first time in spaceflight history the flight of a fully reusable launch system with rocket
propulsion appears possible within the next couple of years. Apart from the implications for …