本雜志致力于報道與航天器和戰術和戰略導彈系統有關的科學技術的進展，包括子系統、應用、任務、環境交互和空間科學。該雜志發表了原始檔案文件，披露了航天器和導彈配置、再入裝置、跨大氣層飛行器、系統和子系統設計和應用、任務設計和分析、應用和計算流體動力學、應用氣動熱力學、材料和結構開發等方面的重大進展。航天器和導彈應用、空間儀器、空間科學發展、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計以及空間技術在其他領域的應用。該期刊的內容還包括地面支持系統、制造、集成和測試、發射控制、恢復和修復、空間通信、科學數據處理以及航天器和任務設計中的人與環境因素。本文還試圖描述推進、制導和控制、熱管理和結構系統對航天器和導彈設計和性能的影響。

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.