Deep Space Probes: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond - Astronautical Engineering - Gregory L. Matloff - Books - Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gm - 9783642063923 - October 21, 2010
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Gregory L. Matloff
Deep Space Probes: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond - Astronautical Engineering Softcover reprint of hardcover 2nd ed. 2005 edition

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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.

242 pages, biography

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 21, 2010
ISBN13 9783642063923
Publishers Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gm
Pages 242
Dimensions 170 × 242 × 15 mm   ·   439 g
Language English  

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