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Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens

Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the...

Author: Claudio Maccone
ISBN: 9783642092022
Format: Paperback
$366.96

This book provides the reader with an insight into the science and technology of interstellar spaceflight. It also...  Read More >>

Impact of Gas Radiation in the Space Shuttle Main Combustion Chamber

Impact of Gas Radiation in the Space Shuttle Main Combustion...

Author: Andreas Thellmann
ISBN: 9783838122113
Format: Paperback
$285.12

Modelling gas radiation within the numerical analysis of combustion processes is often neglected due to the complex...  Read More >>

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life: Caught in the Act of Formation

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life: Caught in the...

Author: Uwe Meierhenrich ,  Henri B. Kagan
ISBN: 9783642095580
Format: Paperback
$261.36

This engaging study seeks to explain why left-handed amino acids violated parity in the emergence of life on Earth....  Read More >>

Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena

Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena...

Author: Jean-Pierre Rozelot
ISBN: 9783642070310
Format: Paperback
$168.16

Comprises an excursion through space weather, a scientific topic in rapid growth and with growing impact and complications...  Read More >>

Origin and Early Evolution of Comet Nuclei: Workshop honouring Johannes Geiss on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Origin and Early Evolution of Comet Nuclei: Workshop...

Author: Hans Balsiger ,  Kathrin Altwegg
ISBN: 9781441927491
Format: Paperback
$446.16

This volume presents the results of a scientific workshop on comet nuclei. It formulates the current understanding...  Read More >>

The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle

The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle

Author: A. Balogh ,  Louis J. Lanzerotti
ISBN: 9783642093685
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Understanding how the Sun changes though its 11-year sunspot cycle and how these changes affect the vast space around...  Read More >>

Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet

Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring...

Author: Donald Rapp
ISBN: 9783642092015
Format: Paperback
$527.97

Chapter 4 discusses a wide range of elements critical to a human Mars mission, including life support consumables,...  Read More >>

Solar Activity and Earth's Climate

Solar Activity and Earth's Climate

Author: Rasmus E. Benestad
ISBN: 9783642067907
Format: Paperback
$472.56

The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the subject of solar activity and the connection with...  Read More >>

Space Tourism: Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond

Space Tourism: Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond...

Author: Michel van Pelt
ISBN: 9781441923141
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Space tourism is not science fiction anymore, this title tells us, but merely a logical step in the evolution of...  Read More >>

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation...

Author: Ian S. McLean
ISBN: 9783642095320
Format: Paperback
$142.29

The new edition of this comprehensive reference on astronomy observation methods and techniques includes recent...  Read More >>

Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration

Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems: Enabling Technologies...

Author: Claudio Bruno ,  Paul A. Czysz
ISBN: 9783642100246
Format: Paperback
$607.17

Once again comprehensive and authoritative, this second edition puts spacecraft propulsion systems in perspective,...  Read More >>

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas

Author: V.N. Tsytovich ,  Gregor Morfill
ISBN: 9783642067037
Format: Paperback
$340.56

Complex plasmas are dusty plasmas in which the density and electric charges of the dust grains are sufficiently...  Read More >>

Watching Earth from Space: How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us

Watching Earth from Space: How Surveillance Helps Us...

Author: Pat Norris
ISBN: 9781441969378
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The military side of the story is linked to the big security issues that we face, such as terrorism and civil wars....  Read More >>

Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability

Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability...

Author: John Mason
ISBN: 9783642093289
Format: Paperback
$446.16

A collection of review articles covering the developments in exoplanet research. It also covers topics such as the...  Read More >>

Small Satellites for Earth Observation: Selected Contributions

Small Satellites for Earth Observation: Selected Contributions...

Author: Rainer Sandau ,  Hans-Peter Roeser
ISBN: 9789048177721
Format: Paperback
$604.56

Thus a new class of advanced small satellite missions, including autonomously-operating “intelligent” satellites...  Read More >>

The Composition of Matter: Symposium honouring Johannes Geiss on the occasion of his 80th birthday

The Composition of Matter: Symposium honouring Johannes...

Author: R. von Steiger ,  R. von Steiger
ISBN: 9781441925510
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Mason Space Sci Rev (2007) 130: 3–4 DOI 10.1007/s11214-007-9240-0 Acknowledgement Published online: 21 July 2007...  Read More >>

Intermediate Mechanics of Materials

Intermediate Mechanics of Materials

Author: J. R. Barber
ISBN: 9789400702943
Format: Hardback
$340.56

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Deep Space Craft: An Overview of Interplanetary Flight

Deep Space Craft: An Overview of Interplanetary Flight...

Author: Dave Doody
ISBN: 9783642100468
Format: Paperback
$261.36

This illuminating and focused book opens the door to interplanetary flight. It looks at this world from the vantage...  Read More >>

Advanced Algorithms for Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking

Advanced Algorithms for Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking...

Author: Sumedh Puranik
ISBN: 9783843364713
Format: Paperback
$250.80

Target tracking has tremendous applications in both military and civilian surveillance systems. Typical applications...  Read More >>

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA's Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change:...

Author: Bhaskar Ramachandran ,  Christopher O. Justice
ISBN: 9781441967480
Format: Hardback
$578.16

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: The Science of ASTER and MODIS is an edited compendium of contributions...  Read More >>

Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment

Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment

Author: Yohsuke Kamide ,  Abraham C.-L. Chian
ISBN: 9783642079689
Format: Paperback
$736.56

Recognized international leaders in their field contribute basic topics of solar physics, space plasmas and the...  Read More >>

The Martian Climate Revisited: Atmosphere and Environment of a Desert Planet

The Martian Climate Revisited: Atmosphere and Environment...

Author: Peter L. Read ,  Stephen R. Lewis
ISBN: 9783642073908
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The atmosphere and climate of Mars is a crucial factor, both for understanding the planet's past and appreciating...  Read More >>

Applications of Refrigerants in Spacecraft Propulsion

Applications of Refrigerants in Spacecraft Propulsion...

Author: Ryan Pahl
ISBN: 9783838388847
Format: Paperback
$250.80

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