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Advances in terrestrial and extraterrestrial drilling, volume II : ground, ice, and underwater /

Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Editor ; Kris Zacny, Editor | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group | 2021

"This 2 volume set will include the latest principles behind the processes of drilling and excavation on Earth and other planets. It will cover the categories of drills, the history of drilling and excavation, various drilling techniques and ass[...]

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Arms control in outer space : status, timeline, and analysis

Jessica West, Author ; Lauren Vyse, Author | Waterloo, Ontario (Canada) : Project Ploughshares | 2022

This timeline attempts to be comprehensive in its coverage of space-related arms control activities.

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Assessing a Mars agreement including human settlements

Annette Froehlich, Author | [S.l.] : SpringerWienNewYork | Studies in space policy | 2021

This book is dedicated to the nascent discussion of the legal aspects of human exploration and possible settlement of Mars, and provides fresh insights and new ideas in two key areas. The first one revolves around the broader aspects of curre[...]

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The business of aerospace : industry dynamics, corporate strategies, innovation models and...the big(ger) picture /

Antoine Gélain, Author | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Library of flight | 2021

"The Business of Aerospace is a compilation of many of Antoine GÐelain's writings for Aviation Week & Space Technology published throughout the last decade. Organized by themes and complemented by brief commentaries introducing underlying busine[...]

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Business model generation : a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers /

Alexander Osterwalder, Author ; Yves Pigneur, Author ; Tim Clark, Author | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley | 2010

Offers tools and techniques to systematically understand, design, and implement new business models and renovate and rework old models.

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Cometary science : insights from 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Nicolas Thomas, Author ; International Space Science Institute, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space science series of ISSI | 2021

This book gives a status report on where we stand today in studies of cometary nuclei and their immediate environment. The papers were derived from a Horizon 2020 project called MiARD (Multi-instrument Analysis of Rosetta Data), which was design[...]

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Commercial space exploration : potential contributions of private actors to space exploration programmes

Clelia Iacomino, Author | [S.l.] : Cham, Switzerland : Springer | SpringerBriefs from the European Space Policy Institute | 2019

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current space exploration in terms of geopolitical and commercial aspects. Despite multiple attempts to foster commercial activities in the field of space exploration, for decades the domain largely c[...]

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Competitive international strategy : key implementation issues /

Anders Pehrsson, Editor | New York : Routledge | Routledge research in strategic management | 2021

"Contemporary businesses are exposed to global competition enhanced by new information technology and liberalized cross-border transactions in many industries. This introduces a new competitive dynamic, influenced by actors in developed and emer[...]

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The cosmos economy : the industrialization of space

Gregg Jack, Author | [S.l.] : Copernicus Books | 2021

If man's next big step is to live and work in space, then what will everyone do out there that is so different from what we are now doing here on Earth? As the future of space comes into focus it is clear that profit and power are the core eleme[...]

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CubeSat antenna design

Nacer Chahat, Editor | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2021

"This book surveys a variety of antenna designs used for CubeSat communication and radar by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The first chapter presents a brief introduction of CubeSats. The second chapter illustrates the telecommunication su[...]

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Destined for the stars : faith, the future, and America's final frontier /

Catherine L. Newell, Author | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press | 2019

"Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US s[...]

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Drivers of international collaboration in research

Paul Cunningham, Author ; jacob Edler, Author ; Patries Boekholt, Author ; Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Author ; European Commission. Directorate General for Research, Author | [S.l.] : European Commission | EUR | 2009

Policies to support international collaboration in research have a long history and many initiatives, programmes, collaboration agreements have been put in place. Globalisation has intensified the need to develop these policies more strategicall[...]

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Engineering project management for the global high-technology industry

Sammy G. Shina, Author | New York (United States) : McGraw-Hill Education | 2014

This book describes how to effectivelyimplement a wide array of project management tools and techniques and covers comprehensive details on the entire product development lifecycle. Technology management--from research to advanced development to[...]

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Entanglement

Douglas Thompson | Dartford : Elsewhen | 2012

Providing a philosophical take on the science fiction genre, 'Entanglement' explores our assumptions about such constants as death, birth, sex and conflict, as the characters in the story explore distant worlds and the intelligent life that live[...]

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Fault tolerant attitude estimation for small satellites

Chingiz Hajiyev, Author ; Ersin Soken Halil, Author | Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press | 2021

Small satellites use commercial off-the-shelf sensors and actuators for attitude determination and control (ADC) to reduce the cost. These sensors and actuators are usually not as robust as the available, more expensive, space-proven equipment. [...]

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Flight dynamics and control of aero and space vehicles

Rama K. Yedavalli, Author | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | Aerospace series | 2020

"Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control is a comprehensive textbook which presents aircraft and spacecraft dynamics and control in one unified treatment. It covers thefundamental topics in the dynamics and control of various flight vehicles, includ[...]

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The future is faster than you think : how converging technologies are transforming business, industries, and our lives /

Peter H. Diamandis, Author ; Steven Kotler, Author | New York : Simon and Schuster | 2020

Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our n[...]

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Future uses of space out to 2050 : emerging threats and opportunities for the UK national space strategy

James Black, Author ; Linda Slapakova, Author ; Kevin Martin, Author | [S.l.] : The RAND Corporation | 2022

To help the UK navigate this landscape of threats and opportunities, RAND conducted a study for the UK Space Agency to explore the variety of possible future uses of space out to 2050, as well as to identify potential 'game-changers' and the imp[...]

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Global navigation satellite system monitoring of the atmosphere

Guergana Guerova, Author ; Tzvetan Simeonov, Author | [S.l.] : Elsevier | 2021

Global Navigation Satellite System Monitoring of the Atmosphere begins by introducing GNSS, its components, and signals. It then explains the basics of the atmosphere, starting from the ionosphere to the troposphere. The GNSS tropospheric monito[...]

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Human molecular genetics

T. Strachan, Author ; Andrew P. Read, Author | New York : Garland Science | 2019

Human Molecular Genetics has been carefully crafted over successive editions to provide an authoritative introduction to the molecular aspects of human genetics, genomics and cell biology.Maintaining the features that have made previous editions[...]

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Introduction to aeronautics : a design perspective /

Steven A. Brandt, Author | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | AIAA education series | 2015

Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective shows students the methods and thought processes involved in designing aircraft. They learn by using specific analytical principles, practical examples, and case studies, with corresponding probl[...]

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Norms for outer space : a small step or a giant leap for policymaking?

Jessica West, Author ; Almudena Azcárate Ortega, Author | [S.l.] : UNIDIR | Space dossier | 2022

Space is increasingly critical to modern life on Earth. But there is growing concern that, as it becomes more economically and strategically important, tensions between different space actors are heightening in a manner that could lead to confli[...]

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Radiation effects on integrated circuits and systems for space applications

Raoul Velazco, Editor ; Dale McMorrow, Editor ; Jaime Estela, Editor | [S.l.] : Cham, Switzerland : Springer | 2019

This book provides readers with invaluable overviews and updates of the most important topics in the radiation-effects field, enabling them to face significant challenges in the quest for the insertion of ever-higher density and higher perfor[...]

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Remote sensing for ecology and conservation : a handbook of techniques /

Ned Horning, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | Techniques in ecology and conservation series | 2020

The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote sensing, using satellite and aerial imaging to measure and map the envir[...]

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Rugged embedded systems computing in harsh environments

Augusto Vega, Author ; Pradip Bose, Author ; Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Author | Amsterdam Boston Heidelberg : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann | 2017

Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments describes how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, including architectural approaches, cross-stack hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and opportun[...]

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Security and stability in the new space age : alternatives to arming /

Brad Townsend, Author | New York : Routledge | Space power and politics | 2020

"This book examines the drivers behind great-power security competition in space to determine whether realistic strategic alternatives exist to further militarization. Space is an area of increasing economic and military competition. This book o[...]

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Shaping science : organizations, decisions, and culture on NASA's teams /

Janet Vertesi, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | Chicago scholarship online | 2021

"Shaping Science draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to involve robotic explorers gatherin[...]

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Solar physics and solar wind

Nour E. Raouafi, Editor ; Angelos Vourlidas, Editor | Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley | Geophysical monograph | 2021

One of the current mysteries in Heliophysics is the heating of the solar atmosphere to temperatures that are orders of macagnitude hotter than the solar surface. As a result of this heating, the Sun cannot contain its atmosphere and a continual [...]

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Space electronic warfare

David L. Adamy, Author | [S.l.] : Artech House | EW105 | 2021

Practical problems - including intercept and jamming of hostile signals transmitted from the Earth's surface and the vulnerability of satellite links to attack from the Earth's surface are discussed. Spherical trigonometry is covered to provide [...]

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Space fostering Latin American societies : developing the Latin American continent through space, part 2

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham (Switzerland) : University of Cape Town : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2021

This book explains how space and its applications can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of Latin America societies, while being driven by Latin American goals. The Latin American space sector is currently undergo[...]

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