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Engineering and medicine in extreme environments

Tobias Cibis, Editor ; Carolyn McGregor AM, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2022

This book brings together in-depth information on a wide array of bio-engineering topics and their application to enhance human health, performance, comfort, and survival in extreme environments. Contributions from biomedical engineering, inform[...]

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Geohazards and risks studied from Earth observations

Teodolina Lopez, Editor ; Anny Cazenave, Editor ; Mioara Mandea, Editor ; Jerome Benveniste, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2022

The Sentinel missions of the COPERNICUS Programme of the European Union, as well as other Earth Observation missions, provide new opportunities for systematic monitoring of natural and man-made hazards and disasters that can highly impact human [...]

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Outer space and popular culture : part 2: influences and interrelations

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2022

This book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements. This is a pertinent topic since the use of s[...]

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Smart materials : considerations on earth and in space

Lenore Rasmussen, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2022

This book provides in-depth coverage of smart materials, including electroactive polymers (EAPs), synthetic muscle, pneumatic artificial muscle, soft pneumatics, hydro-muscle, and other cutting-edge transformational smart material technologies. [...]

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Space fostering African societies : part 2: developing the African continent through space

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2022

This book focuses on the role of space in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, but covers an even more extensive array of relevant and timely topics addressing all facets of African development. It demonstrates that, while [...]

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Space fostering Latin American societies : part 3: developing the Latin American continent through space

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2022

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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Technologies and applications for big data value

Edward Curry, Author | Cham : Springer | 2022

This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues can be overcome to o[...]

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Communicating space exploration : challenges, state of art and future trends

Fulvio Drigani, Author | Cham : Springer | 2021

This book offers an enlightening analysis of the ways in which the communication of space explorations has evolved in response to political and social developments and the availability of new media and communication tools. Important challenges t[...]

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Earth, our living planet : the Earth system and its co-evolution with organisms

Philippe Bertrand, Author ; Louis Legendre, Author | Cham : Springer | Frontiers collection | 2021

The habitability of a planet is its capacity to allow the emergence of organisms. What astronomical and geological conditions concurred to make Earth habitable 4 billion years ago, and how has it remained habitable since? What have been the resp[...]

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The economics of big science : essays by leading scientists and policymakers

Hans Peter Beck, Author ; Charitos Panagiotis, Author | Cham : Springer | Science policy reports | 2021

The essays in this open access volume identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects and the development of large-scale research infrastructures. Investment in science - whether in education[...]

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Geoforming Mars : how could nature have made Mars more like Earth? A treatise on some important factors involved in assessing the habitability of terrestrial planets that may aid us in our search for habitable terrestrial exoplanets

Robert Malcuit, Author | Cham : Springer | 2021

This book offers an exercise in theoretical planetology, presenting five different scenarios to assess the evolution of habitable conditions on Mars to assess planetary terraforming potential and to give insight into the ongoing search for habit[...]

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High power laser propulsion

Yuri A. Rezunkov, Author | Cham : Springer | Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics | 2021

This book gives an in-depth analysis of the physical phenomena of thrust production by laser radiation, as well as laser propulsion engines, and laser-propelled vehicles. It brings together into a unified context accumulated up-to-date informati[...]

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Moon first and Mars second : a practical approach to human space exploration

Allyson Reneau, Author | Cham : Springer | 2021

This SpringerBrief explores the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars, taking into consideration the national and international perspectives at play. The auth[...]

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Newspace systems engineering

Ignacio Chechile, Author | Cham : Springer | 2021

This book provides a guide to engineering successful and reliable products for the New Space industry. By discussing both the challenges involved in designing technical artefacts, and the challenges of growing an organisation, the book presents [...]

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Security in the global commons and beyond

J. Martin Ramirez, Editor ; Bartolomé Bauzá-Abril, Author | Cham : Springer | Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications | 2021

This book deals with two areas: Global Commons and Security: inextricably melted together and more relevant than ever in a world which is ever globalized and with an incognita looming on the horizon: the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic upon [...]

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Space fostering African societies : part 3: developing the African continent through space

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2021

This book focuses focuses on the role of space in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, but covers an even more extensive array of relevant and timely topics addressing all facets of African development. It demonstrates that[...]

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

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : 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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Space systems and sustainability : from asteroids and solar storms to pandemics and climate change

Joseph N. Pelton, Author | Cham : Springer | 2021

In this book, space scientist, futurist, and educator Joseph N. Pelton explores a dozen ways that Planet Earth is at existential risk, along with the many ways that space systems, data analytics, and advanced networking systems can help us cope [...]

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Stratospheric balloons : science and commerce at the edge of space

Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried, Author | Cham : Springer | Space Exploration | 2021

Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond. This book describes the science and technology behind modern stratospheric ballooning, along with the surprising ways [...]

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An assessment framework for compliance with international space law and norms : promoting equitable access and use of space for emerging actors

David Lindgren, Author | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2020

This book proposes a framework for assessing countries' levels of compliance with international space law and norms. It begins by exploring the development of two movements - the evidence-based policy making and programming movement, and the ris[...]

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Basic calculus of planetary orbits and interplanetary flight : the missions of the Voyagers, Cassini and Juno

Alexander J. Hahn, Author | Cham : Springer | 2020

Intended for a one- or two-semester course, this text applies basic, one-variable calculus to analyze the motion both of planets in their orbits as well as interplanetary spacecraft in their trajectories. The remarkable spacecraft missions to t[...]

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Guidance, navigation and control for spacecraft rendezvous and docking: theory and methods

Yongchun Xie, Author ; Changqing Chen, Author ; Tao Liu, Author ; Min Wang, Author | Cham : Springer | 2020

This book focuses on the theory and design methods for guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) in the context of spacecraft rendezvous and docking (RVD). The position and attitude dynamics and kinematics equations for RVD are presented systemati[...]

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A history of the Italian space adventure : pioneers and achievements from the XIVth century to the present

Giovanni Caprara, Author | Cham : Springer | 2020

Includes bibliographical references and index

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An introduction to comets : post Rosetta perspectives

Nicolas Thomas, Author | Cham : Springer | 2020

The author opens with a brief introductory segment on the motivation for studying comets and the overall scope of the book. The first chapter describes fundamental aspects most usually addressed by ground-based observation. The author then looks[...]

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Life support systems for humans in space

Erik Seedhouse, Author | Cham : Springer | 2020

Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems. This textbook introduces the LSS capabilities that sustain humans who live and work in space, and it is written at a level appropriate for both underg[...]

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NASA's first Space Shuttle astronaut selection : redefining the right stuff

David Shayler, Author ; Colin Burgess, Author | Cham : Springer | Space Exploration | 2020

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA's Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or sci[...]

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Space fostering African societies : part 1 : developing the African continent through space

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2020

This book provides detailed insights into how space and its applications are, and can be, used to support the development of the full range and diversity of African societies, as encapsulated in the African Union's Agenda 2063. Like previous boo[...]

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Space fostering Latin American societies : part 1: developing the Latin American continent through space

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2020

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in unlocking Latin America's developmental aspirations. It explains how space and its applications can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of[...]

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

Clelia Iacomino, Author | Cham : 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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Critical space infrastructures : risk, resilience and complexity /

Alexandru Georgescu, Author ; Adrian V Gheorghe, Author ; Polinpapilinho F Katina, Author ; Marius-Ioan Piso, Author | Cham : Springer | Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 2019

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.[...]

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