Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control - Introduction

This chapter introduces the main concepts contained in the book “Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control: From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications.” It lists the content of each chapter of the book and the suggestions to read and use the book. It contains a brief historical review of spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) and the main GNC terminology. It offers a general introduction on the design process of a GNC system, from requirements to preliminary design and verification. Finally, it is concluded with the notation rules and the main acronyms used along the book.