The ''Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets'' is a bi-monthly (six issues per year) peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council of ...

. It covers the science and technology of spaceflight, satellite and mission design, missile design, and rockets. The

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

Olivier de Weck Olivier L. de Weck (born 1968) is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has authored and co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Fellow ...

(

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

). It was established in 1964.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...

'', the journal has a 2021

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

of 1.808.

History

The journal was published bimonthly from the beginning. Prior editors have been: * Hanspeter Schaub (2017 - 2021) * Robert D. Braun (2014 - 2016) * E. Vincent Zoby (1993 - 2014) * Clark H. Lewis (1990 - 1993) * Frank J. Redd (1987 - 1989) * R.H. Woodward Waesche (1981 - 1987) * Paul F. Holloway (1978 - 1981) * Donald C. Fraser (1975 - 1978) * Ralph R. Ragan (1972 - 1975) * Gordon L. Dugger (1964 - 1971) - founding editor

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* {{American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, state=collapsed Aerospace engineering journals English-language journals Bimonthly journals Academic journals established in 1964