Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft The American Explorer Program /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Harvey, Brian (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Space Exploration
• Θέματα: Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Planetology.; Astrobiology.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• About the Author
• List of Tables
• Author's Introduction
• Chapter 1: Foundations
• Chapter 2: Early Explorers
• Chapter 3: Explorer and the crisis in space science
• Chapter 4: Faster, better, cheaper?
• Chapter 5: Future missions and conclusions
• Bibliographical note
• Appendix 1: List of Explorer missions
• Index.