Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business?
Subtitle: Concepts, Applications and Markets for Micro/Nanosatellites in a New Information World (Space Studies)
Contributors: M.J. Rycroft (Editor); Norma Crosby (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781402001994
Subjects: Astronautics; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Astrophysics; Space Engineering (General); Technology; Business / Economics / Finance; General; Astronomy - General; Technology / Engineering / Automotive; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Astrophysics & Space Science
First sentence: Following the first space launch in 1957, satellites rapidly grew increasingly large and enormously expensive.