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The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how we can build highly sophisticated robot spacecraft to make the journey. Many technical problems remain to be solved, among them propulsion systems to permit far higher velocities, and technologies to build vehicles a fraction of the size of today's spacecraft. Beyond the range of effective radio control, robot vehicles for exploring deep space will need to be intelligent, 'thinking' craft - able to make vital decisions entirely on their own. Gregory Matloff also looks at the possibility for human travel into interstellar space, and some of the immense problems that such journeys would entail. This second edition includes an entirely new chapter on holographic message plaques for future interstellar probes - a NASA-funded project.… (plus d'informations)
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The whole world? The whole universe? Overhead, obscurity unveiled a star. One tremulous arrow of light, projected how many thousands of years ago, now stung my nerves with vision, and my heart with fear. For in such a Universe as this what significance could there be in our fortuitous, our frail, our evanescent community?
Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (1937, 1968)
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This book is dedicated to all those visionaries and dreamers who have dreamed of flight beyond the confines of Earth's surface and travel to the stars. From the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, the early aircraft designs of Leonardo, the inspiring science fiction of many masters of the craft, to the originators of modern-day astronautics, these men and women have established the philosophical and technological foundations upon which the first starships will be designed. I fervently hope that some of the spirit of these pioneers has entered into this book.
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To H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Olaf Stapledon and other early masters of science fiction, the Universe was a place of wonder, majesty and infinite possibilities.
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And if one of these hypothetical worlds has the tell-tale blue colour of a water world and the spectral lines of methane and ozone, might these observations taunt us sufficiently to cross the interstellar vastness?
The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how we can build highly sophisticated robot spacecraft to make the journey. Many technical problems remain to be solved, among them propulsion systems to permit far higher velocities, and technologies to build vehicles a fraction of the size of today's spacecraft. Beyond the range of effective radio control, robot vehicles for exploring deep space will need to be intelligent, 'thinking' craft - able to make vital decisions entirely on their own. Gregory Matloff also looks at the possibility for human travel into interstellar space, and some of the immense problems that such journeys would entail. This second edition includes an entirely new chapter on holographic message plaques for future interstellar probes - a NASA-funded project.
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