Download e-book for iPad: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 4: The Modern by Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland

By Paolo Ulivi,David M. Harland

ISBN-10: 1461448115

ISBN-13: 9781461448112

In Robotic Exploration of the sun System, Paolo Ulivi and David Harland supply a accomplished account of the layout and administration of deep-space missions, the spacecraft concerned – a few flown, others no longer – their tools, and their medical results.

This fourth quantity within the sequence covers the interval 2004 to the current day and features:

  • coverage of the Rosetta and Curiosity missions as much as the tip of 2013
  • coverage of Mars missions for the reason that 2005, together with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Phoenix and Fobos-Grunt, plus an outline of plans for destiny robot exploration of the pink Planet
  • coverage of all planetary missions introduced among 2004 and 2013, together with the Deep Impact cometary undertaking, the MESSENGER Mercury orbiter, the New Horizons Pluto flyby and the Juno Jupiter orbiter
  • the first entire description of the chinese language Chang’e 2 asteroid flyby challenge ever published
  • extensive insurance of destiny missions, together with the ecu BepiColombo Mercury orbiter and foreign plans to revisit the main fascinating moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

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