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"Deep space communications technology is bringing home benefits to all types of microwave communications systems. This groundbreaking resource explains the breakthroughs that the NASA JPL Deep Space Antenna Network achieved in reducing noise and signal interference. The book focuses on ground-based receivers and how they can be improved to pick up weak or disrupted signals. Practicing microwave engineers in all fields can apply these theories and methods to improve systems performance. In particular, engineers working on deep-space antenna systems can make the most of the techniques for analyzing errors caused by noise temperature. The book explains how to confidently predict receiver noise temperature thereby boosting the capability to receive data. Tutorials, practical formulas, and powerful techniques earn this book a permanent place on every microwave and antenna engineer's desk."--

Deep Space Network. --- Microwave antennas. --- Microwave communication systems. --- Intercommunication systems --- Microwave devices --- Telecommunication systems --- Line-of-sight radio links --- Antennas (Electronics) --- DSN (Deep Space Network) --- Antenna arrays --- Astronautics --- Communication systems --- Microwave communication systems --- Deep Space Network --- Microwave antennas

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Gives an exposition of classical mechanics and relativity that addresses the question of whether it is possible to send probes to extrasolar systems. This book examines physics to consider the possibility of exploring the nearby interstellar environment in a similar fashion to how the solar system has been explored.

Space probes. --- Space flight. --- Rocket flight --- Space travel --- Spaceflight --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Astronautics --- Interplanetary voyages --- Navigation (Astronautics) --- Deep space probes --- Probes, Space --- Space vehicles --- Flights

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Viewing and Imaging the Solar System: A Guide for Amateur Astronomers is for those who want to develop their ability to observe and image Solar System objects, including the planets and moons, the Sun, and comets and asteroids. They might be beginners, or they may have already owned and used an astronomical telescope for a year or more. Newcomers are almost always wowed by sights such as the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter, but have little idea how to find these objects for themselves (with the obvious exceptions of the Sun and Moon). They also need guidance about what equipment to use, besides a telescope. This book is written by an expert on the Solar System, who has had a lot of experience with outreach programs, which teach others how to make the most of relatively simple and low-cost equipment. That does not mean that this book is not for serious amateurs. On the contrary, it is designed to show amateur astronomers, in a relatively light-hearted—and math-free way—how to become serious.

Physics. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Astronomy. --- Physique --- Astronomie --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy - General --- Solar system. --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy --- Observations. --- Milky Way --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Solar system --- Deep space

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Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning in 2004, however, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science in a dark room in Pasadena, exploring Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) by means of the remotely operated Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their tools, sensors, and cameras, these scientists reported that they felt as if they were on Mars themselves, doing field science. The MER created a virtual experience of being on Mars. In this book, William Clancey examines how the MER has changed the nature of planetary field science. NASA cast the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as "robotic geologists," and ascribed machine initiative ("Spirit collected additional imagery...") to remotely controlled actions. Clancey argues that the actual explorers were not the rovers but the scientists, who imaginatively projected themselves into the body of the machine to conduct the first overland expedition of another planet. The scientists have since left the darkened room and work from different home bases, but the rover-enabled exploration of Mars continues. Drawing on his extensive observations of scientists in the field and at the JPL, Clancey investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them. He shows how the scientists felt not as if they were issuing commands to a machine but rather as if they were working on the red planet, riding together in the rover on a voyage of discovery.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZQSWSZnTYs&feature=youtube_gdata.

Roving vehicles (Astronautics) --- Space probes. --- Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.) --- Mars (Planet) --- Exploration. --- Geology. --- Deep space probes --- Probes, Space --- Exploration vehicles, Planetary --- Extraterrestrial roving vehicles --- Planetary exploration vehicles --- Rovers (Astronautics) --- Vehicles, Roving (Astronautics) --- United States. --- Space vehicles --- Motor vehicles

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The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how we can build highly sophisticated robot spacecraft to make the journey. Many technical problems remain to be solved, among them propulsion systems to permit far higher velocities, and technologies to build vehicles a fraction of the size of today’s spacecraft. Beyond the range of effective radio control, robot vehicles for exploring deep space will need to be intelligent, ‘thinking’ craft – able to make vital decisions entirely on their own. Gregory Matloff also looks at the possibility for human travel into interstellar space, and some of the immense problems that such journeys would entail. This second edition includes an entirely new chapter on holographic message plaques for future interstellar probes – a NASA-funded project.

Space probes. --- Deep space probes --- Probes, Space --- Space vehicles --- Astronautics. --- Astrophysics. --- Engineering. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Automotive Engineering. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Aerospace engineering. --- Space sciences. --- Automotive engineering. --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science --- Aeronautical engineering --- Astronautics --- Engineering