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  title info:
    title: Deep-Space Probes
    sub title: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond
  name:
    name part: Matloff, Gregory L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXX, 242 p. online resource.
  abstract: The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how we can build highly sophisticated robot spacecraft to make the journey. Many technical problems remain to be solved, among them propulsion systems to permit far higher velocities, and technologies to build vehicles a fraction of the size of today’s spacecraft. Beyond the range of effective radio control, robot vehicles for exploring deep space will need to be intelligent, ‘thinking’ craft – able to make vital decisions entirely on their own. Gregory Matloff also looks at the possibility for human travel into interstellar space, and some of the immense problems that such journeys would entail. This second edition includes an entirely new chapter on holographic message plaques for future interstellar probes – a NASA-funded project.
  table of contents: Motivations for deep-space travel -- The realms of space -- Tomorrow’s targets -- Space propulsion today -- The incredible shrinking spaceprobe -- The nuclear option -- 21st century starflight -- On the technological horizon -- Exotic possibilities -- Of stars, planets and life -- Life between the stars -- Conscious spacecraft -- Meeting ET -- Interstellar message plaques -- Appendix: Photon sail history, engineering and mission analysis.
  note: by Gregory L. Matloff.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Automotive engineering
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Automotive Engineering
  classification: TL787-4050.22
  classification: 629.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783540273400
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138940
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204172619.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-27340-0