Space Mission Analysis and Design, Third Edition
- Wiley J. Larson and James R. Wertz, editors Kluwer 1999, Sixth Printing 2004
This book is a nice overview of satellite design. Server-sky bypasses some of the issues by being an ultrasmall, mostly monolithic, mass produced device, but most issues remain, and a few are exacerbated. Most of the considerations discussed will be applicable to the launch bus.