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...

Table of Contents:

• Space missions to the Sun’s gravity focus (550 to 1,000 AU)
• So much gain at 550 AU
• Scientific investigations along the way to 550 AU
• Magnifying the nearby stellar systems
• Astrodynamics to exit the solar system at the highest speed
• SETI and the FOCAL space mission
• GL-SETI (gravitational lensing SETI): Receiving far ETI signals focused by the gravity of other stars
• The gravitational lenses of Alpha Centauri A, B, C and of Barnard’s Star
• The Coronal Plasma “pushing” the focus of the gravity + plasma lens far beyond 550 AU
• NASA’s Interstellar Probe (ISP:2010–2070?) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
• KLT-optimized telecommunications
• A simple introduction to the KLT (Karhunen—Loève Transform)
• KLT of radio signals from relativistic spaceships in uniform and decelerated motion
• KLT of radio signals from relativistic spaceships in hyperbolic motion
• KLT of radio signals from relativistic spaceships in arbitrary motion
• Genetics aboard relativistic spaceships.