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Deep-Space Probes

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Gregory L. Matloff

    1. General Studies Program, New York University, New York, USA

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  • Deep-Space Probes will appeal to a wide audience, including non-technical readers as well as engineering/physics graduates
  • Drawing upon his experience as a Faculty Fellow at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, the author has attempted to make the book as up to date as possible

Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)

Part of the book sub series: Space Exploration (SPACEE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Motivations for deep-space travel

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 1-11

  3. The realms of space

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 13-23

  4. Tomorrow’s targets

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 25-34

  5. Space propulsion today

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 35-56

  6. The incredible shrinking spaceprobe

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 57-64

  7. The nuclear option

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 65-81

  8. Twenty-first century starflight

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 83-100

  9. On the technological horizon

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 101-116

  10. Exotic possibilities

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 117-131

  11. Of stars, planets and life

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 133-144

  12. Life between the stars

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 145-155

  13. Conscious spacecraft

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 157-160

  14. Meeting ET

    • Gregory L. Matloff
    Pages 161-165

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 167-184
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About this book

This excellent book by Dr Gregory Matloff could be viewed as a large multi­ disciplinary compendium of past research, current investigations and future research in astronautics. However, unlike conventional works that are usually closed, this book is an open guide in three main respects: it contains progressive exercises as the chapter and section topics evolve, it provides the reader with many updated references, and it clearly indicates projected research areas that could become current research in the near future. For a student, the included exercises could be transformed into small worksheets or notebooks featuring many modern symbolic or algebraic computation systems that run on desktop or laptop computers. Thus, rapid and progressive study is possible - a sort of learning library driven by the author and by the bibliography at the end of each chapter. More than 340 references for both professionals and students have been selected to provide the reader with a sound basis for expanding his or her knowledge of the many different subjects dealt with authoritatively by the author, who for several decades has worked actively in various fields of astronautics. A systematic and unhurried study of this book will produce for the reader an extraordinarily enlarged number-based view of spaceflight and its significant impact on our future global society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • General Studies Program, New York University, New York, USA

    Gregory L. Matloff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Deep-Space Probes

  • Authors: Gregory L. Matloff

  • Series Title: Springer Praxis Books

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3641-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3641-5Published: 27 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 184

  • Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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