The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet /

Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and development required to build the...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Main Author: Meltzer, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Springer Praxis Books
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9
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505 0 |a Part I: Creating a New Expedition to Saturn -- Conceiving and Funding the Mission -- Building an International Partnership and Preventing Mission Cancellation -- Part II: Designing, Fabricating, and Integrating the Cassini-Huygens Space Vessel -- Constructing the Cassini Orbiter -- The Titan Huygens Probe -- Integrating the Cassini Orbiter, Huygens Probe, and Titan/Centaur Launch Vehicle -- Using Plutonium to Run a Spacecraft -- Part III: From Earth to Saturn -- The Interplanetary Journey -- How a Few People Can Make a Big Difference: The Doppler Shift Problem That Nearly Ended the Huygens Mission -- The Huygens Titan Probe Mission -- The Saturn Tour: Decision-Making Processes, Trajectory Design, and Changes of Management -- Part IV: A Great Natural Laboratory -- The Mother Planet and its Magnetosphere -- The Ring System -- The Icy Moons -- Titan Observations by the Cassini Orbiter -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Breakdown of Mission Costs. 
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