Deep Space Flight and Communications Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens /

• Main Author: Maccone, Claudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

The majority of books dealing with prospects for interstellar flight tackle the problem of the propulsion systems that will be needed to send a craft on an interstellar trajectory. The proposed book looks at two other, equally important aspects of such space missions, and each forms half of this two...