EAN: 9783319681382

SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS DISCOVERING THE COSMOS ...

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite  launched
in 1958. Sixty years later  it is the longest continuously running space program in the world 
demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a
hundred Explorers have already been launched. Explorers have made some of the fundamental
discoveries of the Space Age. Explorer 1 discovered Earth's radiation belts. Later Explorers
surveyed the Sun  the X-ray and ultraviolet universes  black holes  magnetars and gamma ray
bursts. An Explorer found the remnant of the Big Bang. One Explorer chased and was the first to
intercept a comet. The program went through a period of few launches during the crisis of
funding for space science in the 1980s. However  with the era of 'faster  cheaper  better ' the
program was reinvented  and new exiting missions began to take shape  like Swift and the
asteroid hunter WISE. Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft gives an account of each
mission and its discoveries. It breaks down the program into its main periods of activity and
examines the politics and debate on the role of small spacecraft in space science. It
introduces the launchers (Juno  Thor  etc.)  the launch centers  the ground centers and key
personalities like James Van Allen who helped develop and run the spacecraft's exciting
programs.

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