Advanced control of aircraft spacecraft and rockets This book presents state of art control system design methods including multivariable optimal robust digital and nonlinear strategies as applied to modern flight control systems Advanced Control of Aircraft Missiles and Spacecraft introduces the reader to the concepts of modern control theory applied to the design and analysis of general flight control systems in a concise and mathematically rigorous style. It presents a comprehensive treatment of both atmospheric and space flight control systems including aircraft rockets (missiles and launch vehicles) entry vehicles and spacecraft (both orbital and attitude control). The broad coverage of topics emphasizes the synergies among the various flight control systems and attempts to show their evolution from the same set of physical principles as well as their design and analysis by similar mathematical tools. In addition this book presents state of art control system design methods including multivariable optimal robust digital and nonlinear strategies as applied to modern flight control systems.Advanced Control of Aircraft Missiles and Spacecraft features worked out examples and problems at the end of each chapter as well as a number of MATLAB SIMULINK examples that are realistic and representative of the state of the art in flight control