Spacecraft That Explored the Inner Planets Venus and Mercury

Lund, Thomas

Spacecraft That Explored the Inner Planets Venus and Mercury
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-05
  • 售價: $4,610
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,380
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 354
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031298403
  • ISBN-13: 9783031298400

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商品描述

A series of increasingly capable spacecraft were sent to explore the inner planets Venus and Mercury. The history of that planetary exploration is traced in this book along with the evolution of sophisticated spacecraft that unveiled long-sought secrets of the planets. The spacecraft were ingenious and reflected the best efforts of talented people working with the available technology of the day. Additionally, this book showcases engineering involved in those capable machines.

A consecutive series of 34 planetary spacecraft, which span the time period 1961 to 2021, are described. This includes the unsuccessful missions of several early spacecraft that paved the way for a better understanding of Venus' hostile environments. This book will describe many successful spacecraft sent to Venus by the Soviet Union and many successful spacecraft sent to Venus and to Mercury by the United States.

The recent exploration of Venus by the European Space Agency's Venus Express and the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki can also be found in this book.

The author draws on over 50 years of experience on aircraft and spacecraft systems to tell the story of these planetary spacecraft. The spacecraft experience includes being the technical lead for the landing radars on the Surveyor and Apollo lunar landers as well as providing analyses for the rendezvous radar for the Space Shuttle. Practical engineering experience is augmented by Master's degrees in electrical engineering, physics, and business administration.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

一系列日益強大的太空船被送往探索內行星金星和水星。本書追溯了這段行星探索的歷史，以及揭示行星長久以來所尋求秘密的先進太空船的演變。這些太空船設計巧妙，反映了當時技術下才華橫溢的人們的最佳努力。此外，本書還展示了這些高效機器所涉及的工程技術。

本書描述了一系列連續的34艘行星太空船，涵蓋1961年至2021年期間。這其中包括幾艘早期太空船的失敗任務，這些任務為更好地理解金星的惡劣環境鋪平了道路。本書將描述蘇聯發送到金星的多艘成功太空船，以及美國發送到金星和水星的多艘成功太空船。

歐洲太空總署的《Venus Express》和日本太空船Akatsuki最近對金星的探索也可以在本書中找到。

作者利用超過50年的飛機和太空船系統經驗，講述這些行星太空船的故事。這些太空船的經驗包括擔任Surveyor和Apollo登陸器著陸雷達的技術負責人，以及為太空梭的交會雷達提供分析。實際的工程經驗加上電機工程、物理學和工商管理的碩士學位。

作者簡介

The author draws on over 50 years of experience with aircraft and spacecraft systems to tell the story of these unique planetary spacecraft. Lund was technical lead for the landing radars on the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft and performed system design and analysis for radars on the Viking spacecraft and Space Shuttle. He led the development of radar altimeters for military aircraft and also performed system design and analysis of aircraft navigation systems. He served three years as Electronics Officer in the U.S. Navy tasked with evaluating electronic countermeasures against air-to-air missiles.
His working experience is augmented by master's degrees in electrical engineering, physics, and business administration.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

作者利用超過50年的飛機和太空船系統經驗，講述這些獨特行星太空船的故事。Lund曾擔任Surveyor和Apollo太空船著陸雷達的技術負責人，並為Viking太空船和太空梭的雷達進行系統設計和分析。他主導了軍用飛機雷達高度計的開發，並且也進行了飛機導航系統的系統設計和分析。他在美國海軍擔任電子軍官三年，負責評估對空對空導彈的電子對抗措施。
他的工作經驗還包括電機工程、物理學和工商管理的碩士學位。

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