Space Systems Failures Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes /

• Main Authors: Harland, David M. (Author), Lorenz, Ralph D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Automotive engineering.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Automotive Engineering.

In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the outer giant planets of the Solar System, it was decid...

Table of Contents:

• Launch vehicles
• The missiles
• The Shuttle
• Back to expendables
• Heavyweights
• Lightweights
• Boom and bust
• The Chinese experience
• The current crop
• Satellites and space probes
• Failure and redundancy
• Propulsion system failures
• Attitude control system failures
• Electrical failures
• Environmental failures
• Structural failures
• Failures on the ground
• Operator and software errors
• Conclusions.