Robotic exploration of the solar system
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Robotic exploration of the solar system
（Springer-Praxis books in space exploration）
Springer , Published in asspciation with Praxis, c2007
- : pt. 1
- : pt. 2
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- pt. 1: The Golden age 1957-1982
- pt. 2: Hiatus an renewal 1983-1996
Description and Table of Contents
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: pt. 1 ISBN 9780387493268
Description
This fascinating book is a must-have text for space enthusiasts with an engineering bent. It is a detailed history of unmanned missions that have explored our solar system. The subject is treated wherever possible from an engineering and scientific standpoint and includes technical descriptions of the spacecraft, their mission designs and their instrumentations. Scientific results are discussed in depth, together with details of mission management. The book is fantastically comprehensive, covering missions and results from the 1950s right up to the present day. Some of the latest missions and their results appear in a popular science book for the first time.
Table of Contents
The beginning.- Of landers and orbiters.- The grandest tour.
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: pt. 2 ISBN 9780387789040
Description
Provides a comprehensive review in two parts of the exploration of the Solar System, focusing on the technology of the robotic space probes that made it possible, including missions which - for a variety of reasons - were never completed.
Table of Contents
The decade of Halley.- The era of flagships.- Faster, cheaper, better.
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