The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet /
Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and development required to build the...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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Σειρά: | Springer Praxis Books
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part I: Creating a New Expedition to Saturn
- Conceiving and Funding the Mission
- Building an International Partnership and Preventing Mission Cancellation
- Part II: Designing, Fabricating, and Integrating the Cassini-Huygens Space Vessel
- Constructing the Cassini Orbiter
- The Titan Huygens Probe
- Integrating the Cassini Orbiter, Huygens Probe, and Titan/Centaur Launch Vehicle
- Using Plutonium to Run a Spacecraft
- Part III: From Earth to Saturn
- The Interplanetary Journey
- How a Few People Can Make a Big Difference: The Doppler Shift Problem That Nearly Ended the Huygens Mission
- The Huygens Titan Probe Mission
- The Saturn Tour: Decision-Making Processes, Trajectory Design, and Changes of Management
- Part IV: A Great Natural Laboratory
- The Mother Planet and its Magnetosphere
- The Ring System
- The Icy Moons
- Titan Observations by the Cassini Orbiter
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Breakdown of Mission Costs.