Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft [E-Book] : The American Explorer Program / by Brian Harvey.
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...
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| Personal Name(s): | Harvey, Brian, author |
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1st ed. 2018. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2018
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| Physical Description: |
XII, 284 pages 131 illustrations, 73 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783319681405 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-68140-5 |
| Series Title: |
Space Exploration
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- 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.