Emerging Space Powers : The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East and South-America. 1st ed. 2010
- 種類:
- 電子ブック
- 責任表示:
- by Brian Harvey, Henk H. F. Smid, Theo Pirard
- 出版情報:
- New York, NY : Praxis : Imprint: Praxis, 2010
- 著者名:
- シリーズ名:
- Space Exploration ;
- ISBN:
- 9781441908742 [1441908749]
- 注記:
- Japan: Origins - the legacy of Hideo Itokawa -- Japan: Into the solar system -- Japan: Kibo and the Space Station -- India: The vision of Vikram Sarabhai -- India: Space technology and the villages -- India: Manned and lunar flight -- Iran: Origins - the road to space -- Iran: Development - space launch systems and satellites -- Brazil: Origins - the road to space -- Brazil: Development - space launch systems, space probes and satellites -- Brazil: Plans - the ultimate goal -- Israel: Small but efficient actor in space -- North Korea: The most secret country in space -- South Korea: New entrant for space systems -- Contrasts and comparisons.
This work introduces the important emerging space powers of the world. Brian Harvey describes the origins of the Japanese space program, from rocket designs based on WW II German U-boats to tiny solid fuel 'pencil' rockets, which led to the launch of the first Japanese satellite in 1970. The next two chapters relate how Japan expanded its space program, developing small satellites into astronomical observatories and sending missions to the Moon, Mars, comet Halley, and asteroids. Chapter 4 describes how India's Vikram Sarabhai developed a sounding rocket program in the 1960s. The following chapter describes the expansion of the Indian space program. Chapter 6 relates how the Indian space program is looking ahead to the success of the moon probe Chandrayan, due to launch in 2008, and its first manned launching in 2014. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 demonstrate how, in Iran, communications and remote sensing drive space technology. Chapter 10 outlines Brazil's road to space, begun in the mid-1960's with the launch of th - ローカル注記:
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