Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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. It covers the science and technology of spaceflight, satellite and mission design, missile design, and rockets. The editor-in-chief is Olivier de Weck (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It was established in 1964.

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Discipline	aerospace engineering, rocketry, hypersonics, spaceflight
Language	English
Edited by	Olivier de Weck
Publication details
History	1964–present
Publisher	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Impact factor	1.808 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Spacecr. Rockets
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0022-4650 (print) 1533-6794 (web)
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology^[1]
• EBSCO databases^[2]
• Ei Compendex^[3]
• Inspec^[4]
• METADEX
• Science Citation Index^[1]
• Scopus^[5]
• zbMATH^[6]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.808.^[7]

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