How spacecraft fly : spaceflight without formulae /
"About half a century ago a small satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched. The satellite did very little other than to transmit a radio signal to announce its presence in orbit. However, this humble beginning heralded the dawn of the Space Age. Today literally thousands of robotic spacecraft have be...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Copernicus Books : in association with Praxis Pub.,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A brief history of space
- Basic orbits
- Real orbits
- Beyond circles and ellipses
- Getting to orbit
- Something about environment
- Spacecraft design
- Subsystem design : I like your attitude
- More subsystem design
- Space in the 21st century
- Space : the final frontier?