Remote And Robotic Investigations Of The Solar System

Author : C.R. Kitchin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498704946

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Remote and Robotic Investigations of the Solar System by C.R. Kitchin Pdf

Interest in and knowledge of the techniques utilised to investigate our solar system has been growing rapidly for decades and has now reached a stage of maturity. Therefore, the time has now arrived for a book that provides a cohesive and coherent account of how we have obtained our present knowledge of solar system objects, not including the Sun. Remote and Robotic Investigations of the Solar System covers all aspects of solar system observations: the instruments, their theory, and their practical use both on Earth and in space. It explores the state-of-the-art telescopes, cameras, spacecraft and instruments used to analyse the interiors, surfaces, atmospheres and radiation belts of solar system objects, in addition to radio waves, gamma rays, cosmic rays and neutrinos. This book would be ideal for university students undertaking physical science subjects and professionals working in the field, in addition to amateur astronomers and anyone interested in learning more about our local astronomical neighbours.

Author : C.R. Kitchin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429956980

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Astrophysical Techniques by C.R. Kitchin Pdf

Long used in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses, Astrophysical Techniques, Seventh Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive account of the innovate instruments, detectors, and techniques employed in astronomy and astrophysics. Emphasizing the underlying unity of all astronomical observations, this popular textbook provides a coherent state-of-the-art account of the instruments and techniques used in current astronomy and astrophysics. Fully updated throughout, this seventh edition builds upon the sixth edition, covering improved techniques and cutting-edge methods in the field, as well as other exciting new developments in gravitational waves, dark matter and energy, the use of photonics, and astronomy education and outreach, in addition to further detailed discussions on the latest scientific instruments and individual detectors. The book is written in a very accessible manner, and most of the mathematics is accessible to those who have attended a mathematics course in their final years at school. Nevertheless, the treatment of the topics in general is at a sufficiently high level to be of use to those professionals seeking technical information in areas of astronomy with which they might not be completely familiar. Key Features: Details the instrumentation and theory of astronomical observations, including radio waves, gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos, gravitational waves and dark matter and energy and more Presents the background theory and operating practice of state-of-the-art detectors and instruments Fully updated to contain the latest technology and research developments

Author : Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387096285

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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System by Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland Pdf

Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in Robotic Exploration of the Solar System a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System. The subject is treated from an engineering and scientific standpoint. Technical descriptions of the spacecraft, of their mission designs and of instrumentations are provided. Scientific results are discussed in considerable depth, together with details of mission management. The project will deliver four volumes totaling over 2,000 pages that will provide comprehensive coverage of the topic with thousands of references to the professional literature that should make it the 'first port of call' for people seeking information on the topic. The books will cover missions from the 1950s until the present day, and some of the latest missions and their results will appear in a popular science book for the first time.

Author : Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387789057

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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System by Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland Pdf

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.

Author : Michel van Pelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387688800

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Space Invaders by Michel van Pelt Pdf

Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why: the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine when humans are involved. But robotic missions deserve a respectful and detailed history and analysis of their own, and this book provides it. Instead of describing one specific spacecraft or mission, Michel van Pelt offers a "behind the scenes" look at the life of a space probe from its first conceptual design to the analysis of the scientific data returned by the spacecraft.

Author : Wesley T. Huntress, JR.,Mikhail Ya Marov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441978981

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Soviet Robots in the Solar System by Wesley T. Huntress, JR.,Mikhail Ya Marov Pdf

Soviet Robots in the Solar System provides a history of the Soviet robotic lunar and planetary exploration program from its inception, with the attempted launch of a lunar impactor on September 23, 1958, to the last launch in the Russian national scientific space program in the 20th Century, Mars 96, on November 16, 1996. This title makes a unique contribution to understanding the scientific and engineering accomplishments of the Soviet Union’s robotic space exploration enterprise from its infancy to its demise with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors provide a comprehensive account of Soviet robotic exploration of the Solar System for both popular space enthusiasts and professionals in the field. Technical details and science results are provided and put into an historical and political perspective in a single volume for the first time. The book is divided into two parts. Part I describes the key players and the key institutions that build and operate the hardware, the rockets that provide access to space, and the spacecraft that carry out the enterprise. Part II is about putting these pieces together to enable space flight and mission campaigns. Part II is written in chronological order beginning with the first launches to the Moon. Each chapter covers a particular period when specific mission campaigns were undertaken during celestially-determined launch windows. Each chapter begins with a short overview of the flight missions that occurred during the time period and the political and historical context for the flight mission campaigns, including what the Americans were doing at the time. The bulk of each chapter is devoted to the scientific and engineering details of that flight campaign. The spacecraft and payloads are examined with as much technical detail as is available today, the progress is described, and a synopsis of the scientific result is given.

Author : Paolo Ulivi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461448131

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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System by Paolo Ulivi Pdf

Author : R. Launius
Publisher : Springer
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137273178

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Exploring the Solar System by R. Launius Pdf

Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system. The remarkable fruits of this research revolutionized the public's view of their celestial neighbors, capturing the imaginations of people from all backgrounds like nothing else save the Apollo lunar missions. From the first space probes to the most recent planetary rovers, they have continually delivered impressive discoveries and reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. Offering fascinating investigations into this crucial chapter in space history, this collection of specially commissioned essays from leading historians opens new vistas in our understanding of the development of planetary science.

Author : Alex Ellery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642032592

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Planetary Rovers by Alex Ellery Pdf

This will be the only book on planetary rover development covering all aspects relevant to the design of systems

Author : Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387739830

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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System by Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland Pdf

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.

Author : Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461448129

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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System by Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland Pdf

In Robotic Exploration of the Solar System, Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide a comprehensive account of the design and management of deep-space missions, the spacecraft involved – some flown, others not – their instruments, and their scientific results. This fourth volume in the series covers the period 2004 to the present day and features: coverage of the Rosetta and Curiosity missions up to the end of 2013 coverage of Mars missions since 2005, including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Phoenix and Fobos-Grunt, plus a description of plans for future robotic exploration of the Red Planet coverage of all planetary missions launched between 2004 and 2013, including the Deep Impact cometary mission, the MESSENGER Mercury orbiter, the New Horizons Pluto flyby and the Juno Jupiter orbiter the first complete description of the Chinese Chang’e 2 asteroid flyby mission ever published extensive coverage of future missions, including the European BepiColombo Mercury orbiter and international plans to revisit the most interesting moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309180108

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Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion Pdf

In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the inherent limitations in photovoltaic and chemical propulsion systems in reaching many solar system objectives. To help determine appropriate missions for a nuclear power and propulsion capability, NASA asked the NRC for an independent assessment of potentially highly meritorious missions that may be enabled if space nuclear systems became operational. This report provides a series of space science objectives and missions that could be so enabled in the period beyond 2015 in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics, solar system exploration, and solar and space physics. It is based on but does not reprioritize the findings of previous NRC decadal surveys in those three areas.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Committee for the Assessment of NASA's Space Solar Power Investment Strategy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309075978

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Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Committee for the Assessment of NASA's Space Solar Power Investment Strategy Pdf

In March 2000, NASA's Office of Space Flight asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to perform an independent assessment of the space solar power program's technology investment strategy to determine its technical soundness and its contribution to the roadmap that NASA has developed for this program. The program's investment strategy was to be evaluated in the context of its likely effectiveness in meeting the program's technical and economic objectives.

Author : Rod Pyle
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633885035

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Interplanetary Robots by Rod Pyle Pdf

A NASA insider tells the exciting story of robotic space missions to explore the solar system. Exploring the planets has been a goal of America's space program since the dawn of the space race. This insider's perspective examines incredible missions of robotic spacecraft to every corner of our solar system and beyond. Some were flown into glory, while others were planned and relegated to dusty filing cabinets. All were remarkable in their aspirations. Award-winning science writer Rod Pyle profiles both the remarkable spacecraft and the amazing scientists and engineers who made them possible. From the earliest sprints past Venus and Mars to Voyager1's current explorations of the space between the stars, this exciting book sheds new light on ever-more ambitious journeys designed to increase the human reach into the solar system. Drawing on his perspective as a writer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ground zero for NASA's planetary exploration, the author further details plans now in development to look for signs of life on Jupiter's moon Europa, submarines that will dive into the hazy hydrocarbon lakes of Saturn's moon Titan, and intelligent spacecraft that will operate for months without human intervention on Mars and in the outer solar system well into the 2030s. Equally compelling are programs of exploration that were considered but never left the drawing board, such as automobile-sized biology laboratories designed for a Mars landing in the 1960s and plans to detonate atomic bombs on the moon. Complemented by many rarely-seen photos and illustrations, these stories of incredible engineering achievements, daring imaginations, and technological genius will fascinate and inspire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024739224

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NASA Technical Memorandum by Anonim Pdf