Payload and Mission Definition in Space Sciences

Klappentext A 2005 text intended for scientists and engineers involved in the definition and development of space science missions. Zusammenfassung The processes that space missions follow! from the proposal to a space agency! to a successful mission completion! are numerous. This book is for scientists and engineers involved in the definition and development of space science missions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The life cycle of an ESA mission and how to get involved Alvaro Gimenez; 2. Design issues for space science missions Yves Langevin; 3. Instrumentation in space X-ray astronomy X. Barcons; 4. EUV and UV imaging and spectroscopy from space Richard Harrison; 5. The luminosity oscillations imager, a space instrument: from design to science Thierry Appourchaux; 6. Hipparcos and Gaia: the development of space astrometry in Europe M. Perryman; 7. Space physics and the space environment A. Balogh; 8. Planetary observations and landers A. Coradini.

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• Authors: V. Martainez Pillet, Pillet V. Aparicio Martinez, V. (Instituto De Astrofisica De C Martinez Pillet, V. Aparicio Martinez Pillet
• Assisted by: A. Aparicio (Editor), V. Martinez Pillet (Editor), V. Mártínez Pillet (Editor), F. Sanchez (Editor), F. Sánchez (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521858021
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85802-1
• No. of pages: 404
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous