Deep Space Probes
Subtitle: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond (Springer Praxis Books / Astronautical Engineering)
Edition: 2nd ed. edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9783540247722
Subjects: Astrophysics; Mathematics and Science; Space probes; Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Engineering - Automotive; Technology / Aeronautics & Astronautics
First sentence: When one tries to predict the future of space flight, we are faced with the same dilemma experienced by visionaries in all fields.
Description: "This second edition of Deep-Space Probes draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System. Fully updated and revised, the book describes the highly sophisticated robot spacecraft needed to carry out the first explorations in deep space, and the technical problems that are still to be solved. It also looks at the possibility of human travel into interstellar space, and some of the immense problems that such journeys would entail."--BOOK JACKET.