Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft The American Explorer Program /

• Main Author: Harvey, Brian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.