Deep-Space Probes To the Outer Solar System and Beyond /

• Main Author: Matloff, Gregory L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Space sciences.; Automotive engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Automotive Engineering.

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 m...

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.