Overview
- Introduces the origins and current status of the lesser known, yet still important, space programs of emerging countries such as Iran and Brazil
- Includes important developments of the space programs of Japan and India from 1999 to 2007
- Speculates on the future plans of emerging space powers and their impact on space leaders
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 (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This work introduces the important emerging space powers of the world.
Brian Harvey describes the origins of the Japanese space program, from rocket designs based on WW II German U-boats to tiny solid fuel 'pencil' rockets, which led to the launch of the first Japanese satellite in 1970. The next two chapters relate how Japan expanded its space program, developing small satellites into astronomical observatories and sending missions to the Moon, Mars, comet Halley, and asteroids.
Chapter 4 describes how India's Vikram Sarabhai developed a sounding rocket program in the 1960s. The following chapter describes the expansion of the Indian space program. Chapter 6 relates how the Indian space program is looking ahead to the success of the moon probe Chandrayan, due to launch in 2008, and its first manned launching in 2014. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 demonstrate how, in Iran, communications and remote sensing drive space technology.
Chapter 10 outlines Brazil's road to space, begun in the mid-1960's with the launch of the Sonda sounding rockets. The following two chapters describe Brazil's satellites and space launch systems and plans for the future. Chapters 13 and 14 study Israel's space industry. The next chapters look at the burgeoning space programs of North and South Korea.
The book ends by contrasting and comparing all the space programs and speculating how they may evolve in the future. An appendix lists all launches and launch attempts to date of the emerging space powers.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Emerging Space Powers … discuss the space programs in Japan, India, Iran, Brazil, Israel, and North and South Korea. … Five appendixes provide a helpful list of launches for the nations discussed, a very good descriptive list of the space institutes in Iran … and a list of UN space treaties. … competently done and will interest those who want to learn about the history, technology, and potential of the space programs in these countries. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, general readers, and professionals.” (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 48 (1), September, 2010)
“In the 1950s and 60s, space activities were dominated by the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. … Towards the end of the 20th Century and in the first decade of the current century, new players arrived on the scene, notably India, Korea … Brazil, Israel, and Iran. These up-and-coming space powers are the subject of this comprehensive account. Well illustrated throughout, this hefty tome is a valuable one-stop reference for the status of the programmes in emerging space nations … .” (Peter Bond, The Observatory, Vol. 131 (1221), April, 2011)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Space Powers
Book Subtitle: The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East and South-America
Authors: Brian Harvey, Henk H. F. Smid, Théo Pirard
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0874-2
Publisher: Praxis New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, UK 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0873-5Published: 19 March 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0874-2Published: 30 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 732
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Popular Science in Astronomy, History of Science