Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
Author:   Helen Gavaghan
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   1998 ed.
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9780387949147


Pages:   300
Publication Date:   07 November 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age


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In this, the first history of artificial satellites and their uses, Helen Gavaghan shows how the idea of putting an object in orbit around the earth changed from science fiction to indispensable technology in the twinkling of an eye. Focusing on three major areas of development - navigational satellites, communications, and weather observation and forecasting - Gavaghan tells the remarkable inside story of how obscure men and women, often laboring under strict secrecy, made satellite technology possible.""...a gripping read."" -NEW SCIENTIST

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Author:   Helen Gavaghan
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Copernicus Books
Edition:   1998 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.390kg
ISBN:  

9780387949147


ISBN 10:   0387949143
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   07 November 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prologue The Seed.- One New Moon.- Two Cocktails and the Blues.- Three Follow That Moon.- Four The Space Age.- 1 Navigation.- Five Polaris and Transit.- Six Heady Days.- Seven Pursuit of Orbit.- Eight FromSputnik IIto Transit.- Nine Kershner’s Roulette.- Ten The Realities of Space Exploration.- Eleven Move Over, Sputnik.- 2 Meteorology.- Twelve A Time of Turbulence.- Thirteen The Bird’s-Eye View.- Fourteen Keep it Simple, Suomi.- Fifteen Storm Patrol.- 3 Communications.- Sixteen The Players.- Seventeen Of Moons and Balloons.- Eighteen Telstar.- Nineteen The Whippersnapper.- Twenty Syncom.- Twenty-One Epilogue.- Chronology.- Notes and Sources.

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