Space Invaders: How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (892 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1489990127 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Summing Up: Recommended. … The book is written for people who are not necessary familiar with space exploration, so there’s some basic explanatory material in the book about orbits and rocket design. … the reader can well appreciate the effort that goes into ensuring that robots can acquire the most useful information. From the reviews: "Michel van Pelt in his book … provides a practical look at these amazing machines that travel ever further from our home base on Earth. All of this is well written and easy to follow, though much of it was fairly familiar. … it will be useful to the general reader interested in learning about unmanned space exploration missions (US, European, and Russian) in all their complexity, in a chatty, s
Focusing on future modern spacecraft, Michel van Pelt explains the exciting life of unmanned space explorers, making the technology, design, development, operation and results of modern space probe missions understandable by lay readers.
An enjoyable read MATHIEW This book's about unmanned spacecraft (is there any "manned" spacecraft aside from Apollo anyway? orbiters don't count!). But in a very generic way. So much, that along the first chapters the author says a couple of times "sometimes the rovers are built this way, some other times they are built this other way", giving the impression there are a thousand rovers out there or in production. It would have been easier to exemplify with real rovers. This pattern of extreme generalization is repeated too much to my taste for a field where the number of samples (spacecraft) is very limited. Also, I was expecting t. Craig B. Clark said Nice robotic space summary. The book was an interesting narrative of the history of robotics in space. Summary of a number of missions and how robotics has made space exploration possible.