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Offers an introduction to the mission design of communication satellites. This book is not only intended for practising mission analysts, but also for spacecraft systems engineers, spacecraft project managers and to those who wish to employ the attributes of geosynchronous spacecraft for useful purposes.
Based on an imaginary trip to space with America's and Canada's school children, this book presents a collection of children's questions about travelling to and living in space. It includes 94 different categories of questions, answered by internationally recognised experts including astronauts, educators, astronomers, doctors, and engineers.
Providing a comprehensive survey of Space Policy, this book analyzes it at many levels, including historical context, political actors and institutions, political processes and policy outcomes. It examines the symbiotic relationships between policy, technology, and science. It also provides a review of the body of knowledge in Space Policy.
Satellite remote sensing for Earth science data has been expanding over the years. This title covers missions/sensors, such as Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU).
Attempts to reveal the truth about romantic rendezvous in Earth's orbit and beyond as well as the advantages and difficulties of having sex in space. From chemistry to psychology, this exploration runs the reproductive and sexual gamut, from lust and sexual mechanics to conception, pregnancy, and birth in low-gravity situations.
Chronicles all of the details of the space shuttle Columbia's first five flights.
Noted author Jeremy Bernstein explores the physics of cosmology without focusing on the full machinery of general relativity.
A 2005 text intended for scientists and engineers involved in the definition and development of space science missions.
A collection of images that illustrates the impact the Gemini space missions had on science and the crew and spacecraft that were instrumental to the program's success. It provides insight into the data gleaned during the Gemini missions that eventually led to landing on the Moon.
The eleven papers in this text are based on new observations by spacecraft at Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Titan. Written by researchers in planetary science, aeronomy, and atmospheric science, they cover all aspects of solar system aeronomy.
Presents the fundamentals of orbit determination - from weighted least squares approaches (Gauss) to the high-speed computer algorithms that provide accuracy within a few centimeters. This book provides numerous examples and problems and covers topics such as coordinate and time systems, square root filters, process noise techniques, and others.
Sputnik was launched almost fifty years ago, and most people still don't understand how. Written for the layman, this text explains aerodynamic and astrodynamic spaceflight using informal language free of mathematics and technical jargon.
Provides a picture of how politically important space has become, and what its exploitation might mean for our futures. This book analyses the space programmes of the United States, Russia, China, India and the European Space Agency, and explains how central space has become to issues of war and peace and cooperation between the worlds states.
At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecrafts travelled into outer space. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. This work is an exploratory story of this cultural and political phenomenon.