Starsailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Travel - Softcover

Friedman, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471625930 ISBN 13: 9780471625933

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Louis Friedman, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, presents the first comprehensive look at the science and history behind solar sailing and other designs for space travel. Serious science readers and space buffs alike will be fascinated by designs for the square sail, disk sail, and the heliogyro (which features flexible sails many kilometers long). Friedman compares solar sailing to other proposed propulsion sytems such as ion drives and laser propulsion, and takes an insider's look at the million-dollar JPL project of the late '70s, which was the first attempt at a working model. Illustrated.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471625930
• ISBN 13: 9780471625933
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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