This Journal is devoted to reporting advancements in the science and technology associated with spacecraft and tactical and strategic missile systems, including subsystems, applications, missions, environmental interactions, and space sciences. The Journal publishes original archival papers disclosing significant developments in spacecraft and missile configurations, reentry devices, transatmospheric vehicles, systems and subsystem design and application, mission design and analysis, applied and computational fluid dynamics, applied aerothermodynamics, development of materials and structures for spacecraft and missile applications, space instrumentation, developments in space sciences, space processing and manufacturing, space operations, interactions with spacecraft and sensors, design of sensors and experiments for space, and applications of space technologies to other fields. The context of the Journal also includes ground-support systems, manufacturing, integration and testing, launch control, recovery and repair, space communications, scientific data processing, and human and environmental factors in spacecraft and mission design. Papers also are sought which describe the effects of propulsion, guidance and control, thermal management, and structural systems on spacecraft and missile design and performance.

本雜志致力于報道與航天器和戰(zhàn)術(shù)和戰(zhàn)略導彈系統(tǒng)有關(guān)的科學技術(shù)的進展，包括子系統(tǒng)、應(yīng)用、任務(wù)、環(huán)境交互和空間科學。該雜志發(fā)表了原始檔案文件，披露了航天器和導彈配置、再入裝置、跨大氣層飛行器、系統(tǒng)和子系統(tǒng)設(shè)計和應(yīng)用、任務(wù)設(shè)計和分析、應(yīng)用和計算流體動力學、應(yīng)用氣動熱力學、材料和結(jié)構(gòu)開發(fā)等方面的重大進展。航天器和導彈應(yīng)用、空間儀器、空間科學發(fā)展、空間加工和制造、空間操作、與航天器和傳感器的相互作用、空間傳感器和實驗的設(shè)計以及空間技術(shù)在其他領(lǐng)域的應(yīng)用。該期刊的內(nèi)容還包括地面支持系統(tǒng)、制造、集成和測試、發(fā)射控制、恢復和修復、空間通信、科學數(shù)據(jù)處理以及航天器和任務(wù)設(shè)計中的人與環(huán)境因素。本文還試圖描述推進、制導和控制、熱管理和結(jié)構(gòu)系統(tǒng)對航天器和導彈設(shè)計和性能的影響。