A new force at a new frontier : Europe's development in the space field in the light of its main actors, policies, law, and activities from its beginnings up to the present

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    • Madders, Kevin

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A new force at a new frontier : Europe's development in the space field in the light of its main actors, policies, law, and activities from its beginnings up to the present

Kevin Madders

Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1997

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"First published 1997"--T.p. verso

"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso

"Paperback re-issue"--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

This is a comprehensive work on the European space sector. Written by an acknowledged expert and former space agency official, the work opens up a vital component of Europe's technostructure and the world's space programmes. Its mass of information will serve the insider as a handy reference while its themes and lively analysis will absorb the layperson and assist public judgement of European space efforts. The book first explores the Space Age's origins and Europe's response up to the 1970s. It then devotes its bulk to the scene of the 1990s by investigating the European Space Agency (ESA), Eutelsat, Arianespace, Eumetsat, ASTRA, national agencies and other bodies. How this scene works, what had been achieved, how space technology is made and used, and how policy is formed are main concerns, but of interest too are various crises, including Europe's man-in-space programme. The book identifies challenges for the space community, business and the EU, and how they may be met.

目次

  • Preface
  • About the author
  • 1. Introduction: space, a tale of several Europes
  • Part I. The Genesis of Cooperation: 2. Rockets, the Cold War and Sputnik's civilian legacy
  • 3. Blue Streak's fate and the end of British Tripartism
  • 4. Going from the very small to the very big: the impulse towards space research in Europe
  • Part II. Europe's First Space Organizations: 5. Parallel paths into space: ELDO, ESRO and their charters
  • 6. The building of Europe's early space capacity
  • 7. The advent of international satellite communications and Europe
  • 8. Now let's play launcher redesign - ELDO's early tribulations and attempts at reform
  • 9. A forum for crisis - the European space conference
  • 10. Metamorphosis: the transformation of ESRO, ELDO's downfall and a Franco-German space pact
  • Part III. The European Space Agency: 11. The ESA convention and ESA's basic institutional system
  • 12. ESA's first generation and continuation programmes
  • 13. ESA's second generation programmes: man in space and the long-term plan
  • 14. Infrastructure
  • 15. Selected aspects of ESA practice
  • 16. International cooperation
  • Part IV. The Wider European Space Field and its Issues: 17. The role of national space programmes
  • 18. The operational and commercial sector
  • 19. Issues of utilization and competition
  • 20. La Grande Europe and space
  • Part V. Conclusion: 21. Synthesis and conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary.

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