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Harvey, Brian.

Discovering the cosmos with small spacecraftthe American Explorer Program /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Discovering the cosmos with small spacecraftby Brian Harvey.
Reminder of title:	the American Explorer Program /
Author:	Harvey, Brian.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	xii, 284 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Physics.
Subject:	Outer spaceExploration.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68140-5
ISBN:	9783319681405$q(electronic bk.)

Discovering the cosmos with small spacecraftthe American Explorer Program /
Harvey, Brian.

Discovering the cosmos with small spacecraftthe American Explorer Program /[electronic resource] :by Brian Harvey. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xii, 284 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Springer praxis books. - Springer praxis books..

Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Author's Introduction -- Chapter 1: Foundations -- Chapter 2: Early Explorers -- Chapter 3: Explorer and the crisis in space science -- Chapter 4: Faster, better, cheaper? -- Chapter 5: Future missions and conclusions -- Bibliographical note -- Appendix 1: List of Explorer missions -- Index.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have already been launched. Explorers have made some of the fundamental discoveries of the Space Age.Explorer 1 discovered Earth's radiation belts. Later Explorers surveyed the Sun, the X-ray and ultraviolet universes, black holes, magnetars and gamma ray bursts. An Explorer found the remnant of the Big Bang. One Explorer chased and was the first to intercept a comet. The program went through a period of few launches during the crisis of funding for space science in the 1980s. However, with the era of 'faster, cheaper, better,' the program was reinvented, and new exiting missions began to take shape, like Swift and the asteroid hunter WISE. Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft gives an account of each mission and its discoveries. It breaks down the program into its main periods of activity and examines the politics and debate on the role of small spacecraft in space science. It introduces the launchers (Juno, Thor, etc.), the launch centers, the ground centers and key personalities like James Van Allen who helped develop and run the spacecraft's exciting programs.

ISBN: 9783319681405$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-68140-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

179414
Physics.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

387234
Outer space
--Exploration.

LC Class. No.: QB500.25

Dewey Class. No.: 523.1

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