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Soviet Robots in the Solar System - Mission Technologies and Discoveries (Paperback, Edition.) Loot Price: R1,098
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Soviet Robots in the Solar System - Mission Technologies and Discoveries (Paperback, Edition.): Wesley T. Huntress Jr, Mikhail...

Soviet Robots in the Solar System - Mission Technologies and Discoveries (Paperback, Edition.)

Wesley T. Huntress Jr, Mikhail Ya Marov

Series: Space Exploration

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"Soviet Robots in the Solar System"provides a history of the Soviet robotic lunar and planetary exploration program from its inception, with the attempted launch of a lunar impactor on September 23, 1958, to the last launch in the Russian national scientific space program in the 20th Century, Mars 96, on November 16, 1996. This title makes a unique contribution to understanding the scientific and engineering accomplishments of the Soviet Union s robotic space exploration enterprise from its infancy to its demise with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Theauthors provide a comprehensive account of Soviet robotic exploration of the Solar System for both popular space enthusiasts and professionals in the field. Technical details and science results are provided and put into an historical and political perspective in a single volume for the first time. The book is divided into two parts. Part I describes the key players and the key institutions that build and operate the hardware, the rockets that provide access to space, and the spacecraft that carry out the enterprise. Part II is about putting these pieces together to enable space flight and mission campaigns. Part II is written in chronological order beginning with the first launches to the Moon. Each chapter covers a particular period when specific mission campaigns were undertaken during celestially-determined launch windows. Each chapter begins with a short overview of the flight missions that occurred during the time period and the political and historical context for the flight mission campaigns, including what the Americans were doing at the time. The bulk of each chapter is devoted to the scientific and engineering details of that flight campaign. The spacecraft and payloads are examined with as much technical detail as is available today, the progress is described, and a synopsis of the scientific result is given.

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Series: Space Exploration
Release date: July 2011
First published: 2011
Authors: Wesley T. Huntress Jr • Mikhail Ya Marov
Dimensions: 240 x 168 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 453
Edition: Edition.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-7897-4
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics
LSN: 1-4419-7897-6
Barcode: 9781441978974

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