Glossary of aerospace engineering
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This glossary of aerospace engineering terms pertains specifically to aerospace engineering and its sub-disciplines. For a broad overview of engineering, see glossary of engineering.
A
- Ablative laser propulsion —
- Above ground level —
- Absolute humidity —
- Absolute value —
- Acceleration —
- Acquisition of signal —
- Action —
- ADF —Automatic direction finder
- Advanced Space Vision System —
- Aeroacoustics —
- Aerobrake —
- Aerobraking —
- Aerocapture —
- Aerodynamics —
- Aeroelasticity —
- Aeronautical abbreviations —
- Aeronautics —
- Aerospace architecture —
- Aerospace bearing —
- Aerospace engineering —
- Aerospace materials —
- Aerospike engine —
- Aerostat —
- Aerostructure —
- Aft-crossing trajectory —
- AGL — Above ground level
- Aileron —
- Air-augmented rocket —
- Aircraft —
- Aircraft flight control systems —
- Aircraft flight mechanics —
- Airfoil —
- Airlock —
- Airship —
- Albedo —
- Alcubierre drive —
- Anemometer —
- Angle of attack —
- Angular momentum —
- Angular velocity —
- Anticyclone —
- Antimatter rocket —
- Apsis —
- Arcjet rocket —
- Areal velocity —
- Argument of periapsis —
- ARP4761 —
- Automatic direction finder —
- Aspect ratio (wing) —
- Asteroid —
- Astrodynamics —
- Atmospheric entry —
- Attitude control —
- Avionics —
- Axial stress —
B
C
- Cabin pressurization —
- Cable lacing —
- Canard —
- Centennial challenges —
- Center of gravity —
- Center of mass —
- Center of pressure —
- Chord —
- Clean configuration —
- Cockpit —
- Collimated light —
- Comet —
- Compression —
- Compressibility —
- Computational fluid dynamics —
- Computing —
- Constant speed drive —
- Control engineering —
- Conservation of momentum —
- Controllability —
- Crew Exploration Vehicle —
- Critical mach —
- Centrifugal compressor —
- Constant speed drive —
- Corrected flow —
- Corrected speed —
D
- Damage tolerance —
- Decalage —
- De Laval nozzle —
- Dead reckoning —
- Deflection —
- Deformation (engineering) —
- Deformation (mechanics) —
- Delta-v —
- Delta-v budget —
- Delta wing—
- Density —
- Departure resistance –
- Derivative —
- Digital Datcom —
- Dihedral —
- Disk loading —
- Displacement (vector) —
- Distance measuring equipment —
- DME — distance measuring equipment.
- DO-178B —
- DO-254 —
- Drag (physics) —
- Drag coefficient —
- Drag equation —
- Drop test —
- Dual mode propulsion rocket —
- Ductility —
E
- Earth's atmosphere —
- Eccentric anomaly —
- Eccentricity vector —
- Eigenvector slew —
- Electrostatic ion thruster —
- Elevator —
- Elliptic partial differential equation —
- Empennage —
- Energy —
- Engineering —
- Engineering economics —
- Enstrophy —
- Equation of motion —
- ESA — European Space Agency
- Euler angles —
- European Space Agency —
- Expander cycle (rocket) —
F
- Fatigue —
- Field emission electric propulsion —
- Fixed-wing aircraft —
- Flange —
- Flap —
- Flight control surfaces —
- Flight control system (aircraft) —
- Flight control system (helicopter) —
- Flight dynamics —
- Flight management system —
- Floatstick —
- Fluid —
- Fluid dynamics —
- Fluid mechanics —
- Fluid statics —
- FMS — Flight management system.
- Force —
- Freefall —
- Fuselage —
- Future Air Navigation System —
- Flying wing —
G
- Galaxy —
- Gas-generator cycle (rocket) —
- Geostationary orbit —
- Geosynchronous orbit—
- Glide ratio —
- Glider —
- Global Positioning System —
- Goddard problem —
- GPS — Global Positioning System.
- Gravitational constant —
- Gravitational slingshot —
- Gravity —
H
I
J
K
L
- Landing —
- Landing gear —
- Lagrangian —
- Lagrangian point —
- Laser broom —
- Laser Camera System —
- Latus rectum —
- Launch window —
- Law of universal gravitation —
- Leading edge —
- Lift —
- Lift coefficient —
- Lightcraft —
- Lighter than air —
- Liquid air cycle engine —
- Liquid fuels —
- Liquid rocket propellants —
- Lithobraking —
- Loiter —
- Low Earth orbit —
- Lunar space elevator —
M
- Mach number —
- Magnetic sail —
- Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster —
- Mass —
- Mass driver —
- Mechanics of fluids —
- Membrane mirror —
- Metre per second —
- Microwave landing system —
- Mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion —
- Moment of inertia —
- Momentum —
- Momentum wheel —
- Monopropellant rocket —
- Motion —
- Multistage rocket —
N
O
P
- Parallel axes rule —
- Parasitic drag —
- Parawing —
- Perpendicular axes rule —
- Physical science —
- Physics —
- Planetary orbit —
- Plasma (physics) —
- Plug nozzle —
- Pogo oscillation —
- Prandtl–Glauert singularity —
- Precession —
- Pressure —
- Pressure altitude —
- Pressure-fed engine —
- Propeller —
- Proper orbital elements —
- Pulsed inductive thruster —
- Pulsed plasma thruster —
- Propulsion —
R
- Radar —
- Radio direction finder —
- Railgun —
- Ram accelerator —
- Ramjet —
- Rate of climb –
- Reaction control system —
- Redshift rocket —
- Reentry —
- Reflection —
- Relativistic rocket —
- Remote Manipulator System —
- Resistojet rocket —
- Reusable launch system —
- Reynolds number —
- RL-10 (rocket engine) —
- Rocket —
- Rocket engine –
- Rocket engine nozzle —
- Rocket fuel —
- Rocket launch —
- Rudder —
S
- SABRE —
- Satellite —
- Saturn (rocket family) —
- Scalar (physics) —
- Schlieren —
- Schlieren photography —
- Scramjet —
- Second moment of area —
- Shock wave —
- SI —
- Single point of failure —
- Single-stage to orbit —
- Skyhook (structure) —
- Slew —
- Stream function —
- Streamline —
- Solar panel —
- Solar sail —
- Solar thermal rocket —
- Solid of revolution —
- Solid rocket —
- Sound barrier —
- Space activity suit —
- Space elevator —
- Space fountain —
- Space plane —
- Space Shuttle —
- Space Shuttle external tank —
- Space Shuttle Main Engine —
- Space station —
- Space suit —
- Space technology —
- Space transport —
- Spacecraft —
- Spacecraft design —
- Spacecraft propulsion —
- Special relativity —
- Specific impulse —
- Speed of sound —
- Staged combustion cycle (rocket) —
- Subsonic —
- Supersonic —
- Surface of revolution —
- Sweep theory —
T
- Tait–Bryan rotations —
- Temperature —
- Terminal velocity —
- Test target —
- Tether propulsion —
- Thermal protection system —
- Thermodynamics —
- Thrust —
- Thruster —
- Torricelli's equation —
- Total air temperature —
- Trajectory —
- Trailing edge —
- Trans Lunar Injection —
- Transonic —
- Transverse wave —
- Tripropellant rocket —
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation —
- Turbomachinery —
- Two stage to orbit —
U
- UFO —
V
W
See also
- Aerospace engineering
- Engineering
- Glossary of engineering
- National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
- Fundamentals of Engineering Examination
- Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination (PE exam)
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
- Glossary of areas of mathematics
- Glossary of artificial intelligence
- Glossary of astronomy
- Glossary of biology
- Glossary of chemistry
- Glossary of civil engineering
- Glossary of economics
- Glossary of mechanical engineering
- Glossary of physics
- Glossary of probability and statistics
- Glossary of structural engineering
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