Deep Space Propulsion - A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight
von: K. F. Long
Springer-Verlag, 2011
ISBN: 9781461406075
Sprache: Englisch
379 Seiten, Download: 5448 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Deep Space Propulsion | 4 | ||
| Foreword | 8 | ||
| Preface | 10 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 14 | ||
| Contents | 16 | ||
| About the Author | 22 | ||
| Chapter 1: Reaching for the Stars | 24 | ||
| Chapter 2: The Dream of Flight and the Vision of Tomorrow | 34 | ||
| Chapter 3: Fundamental Limitations to Achieving Interstellar Flight | 50 | ||
| Chapter 4: Aviation: The Pursuit of Speed, Distance, Altitude, and Height | 62 | ||
| Chapter 5: Astronautics: The Development and Science of Rockets | 72 | ||
| Chapter 6: Exploring the Solar System and Beyond | 99 | ||
| Chapter 7: Exploring Other Star Systems | 121 | ||
| Chapter 8: Solar System Explorers: Historical Spacecraft | 138 | ||
| Chapter 9: Electric and Nuclear-Based Propulsion | 159 | ||
| Chapter 10: Sails and Beams | 175 | ||
| Chapter 11: Nuclear Fusion Propulsion | 197 | ||
| Chapter 12: External Nuclear Pulse Propulsion | 227 | ||
| Chapter 13: Towards Relativistic Propulsion: Antimatter and the Interstellar Ramjet | 239 | ||
| Chapter 14: Aerospace Design Principles in Interstellar Flight | 254 | ||
| Chapter 15: The Scientific, Cultural and Economic Costs of Interstellar Flight | 281 | ||
| Chapter 16: The Role of Speculative Science in Driving Technology | 304 | ||
| Chapter 17: Realising the Technological Future and the Roadmap to the Stars | 322 | ||
| Chapter 18: From Imagination to Reality | 341 | ||
| Epilogue | 361 | ||
| Appendix A | 365 | ||
| Appendix B | 366 | ||
| Appendix C | 367 | ||
| Appendix D | 370 | ||
| Index | 373 |