Lecture 1 - Space environment and its Types, Space Weather Definition, Anatomy of Sun, Solar Activities as Space Weather Driver
Lecture 2 - Solar Activities, Solar Wind, Solar Flare, Coronal Mass Ejection and Solar Energetic Particles Event
Lecture 3 - Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF), Co-rotating Interaction Regimes Corona, Coronal Structures, Coronal Loops, Helmet Streamers and Coronal Holes
Lecture 4 - Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF), Co-rotating Interaction Regions
Lecture 5 - Coupling of Solar Wind to Earth's Magnetosphere and Ionosphere, Geomagnetic Storm, Geomagnetic Substorm and Geomagnetic Indices
Lecture 6 - Earth's Radiation Belt, Ring Current and South Atlantic Anomaly
Lecture 7 - Satellite Orbits, Geometry, Velocity and Period, Orbital Parameters and Orbital Perturbations
Lecture 8 - Different Types of Earth's Orbit for Useful Satellite Applications
Lecture 9 - Satellite Segments, Space segments, Mechanical Main Frames, Structures and Thermal Control System
Lecture 10 - Satellite Segments, Space segments, Mechanical Main Frames, Mechanisms, Propulsion System, Electrical Main Frame and Power System
Lecture 11 - Satellite Segments, Space segments, Electrical Main Frame, TT and C, Attitude and Orbit Control System and Payloads
Lecture 12 - Satellite Segments, Earth Segments, Receive-Only Earth Station, Transmit-Receive Earth Stations
Lecture 13 - Characteristics of Vacuum Environment, The Effects on Spacecraft, Extreme Temperatures, Exposure to Radiation and Outgassing
Lecture 14 - Vacuum Environment, Outgassing, Outgassing Mechanism and Transport of Outgassed Material
Lecture 15 - Outgassing of Spacecraft Materials, TML, CVCM, WVR and Its Significance, Ground Simulation of Vacuum Environment, Thermo-Vacuum Chamber, Thermo-Vacuum Test Philosophy and Characterization of TML, CVCM and WVR
Lecture 16 - Vacuum Environment, The Effect of Exposure of UV Radiation on Spacecraft Material, Design Guidelines and Mitigation Techniques
Lecture 17 - Neutral Gas Flow Around a Spacecraft, Effects on Spacecraft, Atomic Oxygen Attack, Sputtering, Contamination and Spacecraft Glow
Lecture 18 - Neutral Space Environment, Atmospheric Drag, Drag Force and Satellite Orbital Parameters
Lecture 19 - Neutral Space Environment, The Micrometeoroid/Orbital Debris Particulate Environment and Hyper Velocity Particle Impact on Spacecraft
Lecture 20 - Spacecraft Induced Neutral Environment, Scattering of Electromagnetic (EM) Radiation from Particles and Orbital debris
Lecture 21 - Orbital Debris, Dealing with Space Debris- Management, International Cooperation, Monitoring, Detection and Tracking, Radar Techniques and Optical Techniques
Lecture 22 - Capturing of Orbital debris, Contact capturing method, Contactless capturing method and Removal of Orbital debris
Lecture 23 - Removal of Orbital debris, Space Environment based and Non-space Environment
Lecture 24 - Removal of Orbital debris, Non-space Environment based methods and Mitigation strategies
Lecture 25 - What is plasma and its nature, Behavior of plasma in external Electromagnetic field, Uniform magnetic field, Gyro-radius and Cyclotron frequency
Lecture 26 - Charge particle movement in a uniform magnetic field, Helical particle trajectory, Guiding center, Pitch and pitch angle, Dimagnetic properties of plasma, Magnetic moment, E x B drift and Drift velocity
Lecture 27 - Introduction to Plasma, Magnetic moment, E x B drift, Plasma Oscillations and plasma frequency and Debye Shielding
Lecture 28 - Debye Shielding, External charge introduced in plasma, Debye length and Debye volume
Lecture 29 - Collective Behavior of plasma and Velocity, Energy, Temperature of plasma
Lecture 30 - Non-uniform magnetic field, Magnetic mirroring and Trapping of charged particles
Lecture 31 - Plasma environment in earth's orbit, Origin of space plasma in earth’s orbit, Effects on spacecraft and Plasma environment at different earth’s orbits
Lecture 32 - Spacecraft charging, Capacitor charging, Probe theory, Langmuir probe, Physics of Spacecraft charging and Spacecraft as a Langmuir probe
Lecture 33 - Spacecraft charging: probe theory, Langmuir probe, Langmuir probe equation for a sphere in the orbit-limited regime, Current Collection in Cylindrical Geometry and Current Collection in Plane Geometry
Lecture 34 - Spacecraft charging, Spacecraft Equilibrium Potential, Repelling of Like Charges, Attraction of Opposite Charges, Boltzmann’s Repulsion Factor and Spacecraft Potential in Plasma
Lecture 35 - Spacecraft charging, Current balance equation, Current collection in spacecrafts and Different current components
Lecture 36 - Spacecraft charging, Different Plasma Fluxes Affecting Spacecraft, Charging and Current balance equation and spacecraft potential
Lecture 37 - Spacecraft charging, Lumped Circuit model of spacecraft, Different types of spacecraft charging and Effects of spacecraft charging
Lecture 38 - Spacecraft charging, Analysis, design, testing, inspection and Mitigation strategies
Lecture 39 - Numerical problems related to plasma physics
Lecture 40 - What is radiation, What is space radiation environment and It’s classifications and origin
Lecture 41 - Ionizing and non-ionizing Radiation, Ionizing radiation, Linear Energy Transfer, Total Ionizing dose, Stopping cross section and Stopping range
Lecture 42 - Radiation Energy: Classical Vs Relativistic, Bremsstrahlung Radiation, X- Rays, Gamma Rays, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Effect and Pair Production
Lecture 43 - Displacement damage and Total Radiation Dose
Lecture 44 - Single Event Effects, Single Event Upset (SEU), Single Event Latch-Up (SEL), Single Event Burnout (SEB) and Single Event Gate Rupture (SEGR)
Lecture 45 - Effects of Space Radiations on Spacecrafts and Space Radiation Risks to Astronauts, Case Studies of ISS
Lecture 46 - Modelling, Simulation and Testing and Mitigation towards Space Radiation Risks
Lecture 47 - Ground Simulation of space environment and launch conditions, Test and Evaluation for Space qualification, Introduction of reliability and Reliability and Failure function
Lecture 48 - Reliability and Failure function, Failure probability density function and Failure or hazard rate
Lecture 49 - Significance of hazard or failure rate, Reliability in terms of failure or hazard rate and Failure rate and bathtub curve
Lecture 50 - Failure rate and bathtub curve, Gaussian and Weibull probability density function, Meantime to failure and Mean satellite lifetime
Lecture 51 - Mean satellite lifetime, Satellite System Availability, Without backup and With backup
Lecture 52 - Satellite System Availability, Without backup, With backup and System reliability
Lecture 53 - System reliability, Subsystems in series and Redundant Subsystems
Lecture 54 - System reliability, Redundant Subsystems (static redundancy), MTTF, Failure rate, n- sub-systems in parallel and Reliability if k out of n elements are necessary
Lecture 55 - System reliability, Reliability if k out of n elements are necessary and Dynamic Redundant Subsystems (with switching)
Lecture 56 - System reliability, Dynamic redundancy (with switching), Generalized expression for system reliability with Dynamic redundancy using switching and Redundancy with different failure rates
Lecture 57 - Equipment redundancy taking account of the reliability of the switching element and Example: Redundancy of TWTs in the channelized part of a payload
Lecture 58 - Equipment having several failure modes, Component Reliability and Quality assurance
Lecture 59 - Component selection and Quality assurance
Lecture 60 - Component selection and Quality assurance
Lecture 61 - What is a space mission and its types and Mission Objectives and Planning
Lecture 62 - Mission Planning, Satellite operation and Autonomous Satellite system
