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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 [...]

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[...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Intense shock waves on Earth and in space

Vladimir Fortov, Author | Cham : Springer | Shock wave and high pressure phenomena | 2021

This book focuses on the non-traditional branches of physics and mechanics of shock waves that have arisen recently in connection with the intensive study of these waves in a wide variety of phenomena - from nuclear matter to clusters of galaxie[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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.[...]

Embedding Space in African Society : The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 supported by space applications /

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2019

This book provides a detailed insight into how space and its applications are embedded, and can be further embedded, into African society in support of the SDGs, while taking into account the specific features, needs, and diversity of that socie[...]

Geopolitics of the outer space : a European perspective /

Bohumil Dobos, Author | Cham : Springer | Contributions to political science. | 2019

This book presents a comprehensive geopolitical analysis of European space activities. By studying outer space as a physical and socio-economic space as well as a military-diplomatic area, the author helps readers understand outer space as a geo[...]

Ice Worlds of the Solar System : their tortured landscapes and biological potential

Michael Carroll, Author | Cham : Springer | 2019

Although there is a chance that certain planets may be habitable for life, the moons of planets might have even more to offer. The icy moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have taught us important lessons about new volcanic forms—cryovol[...]

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Integrated space for African society : legal and policy implementation of space in African countries

Annette Froehlich, Editor | Cham : Springer | Southern Space Studies | 2019

This book provides an overview of the space sector in African countries, from a legal and policy point of view, analysing how the African Union's Space Policy and Strategy (ASPS) is implemented and highlighting the various space activities in ea[...]

Radiation effects on integrated circuits and systems for space applications

Raoul Velazco, Editor ; Dale McMorrow, Editor ; Jaime Estela, Editor | Cham : 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[...]

Astronautics

Ulrich Walter, Author | Cham : Springer | 2018

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics. As a crew member of the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission and[...]

Calling Taikong: a strategy report and study of China's future space science missions

Ji Wu, Author | Cham : Springer | Science policy reports | 2018

This book describes the status quo of space science in China, details the scientific questions to be addressed by the Chinese space science community in 2016-2030, and proposes key strategic goals, space science programs and missions, the roadma[...]

Leading successfully in Asia

Kim Cheng Patrick Low, Author | Cham : Springer | 2018

This book examines the essence of leadership, its characteristics and its ways in Asia through a cultural and philosophical lens. Using Asian proverbs and other quotes, it discusses leadership issues and methods in key Asian countries including [...]

Outer solar system

Viorel Badescu, Author ; Kris Zacny, Author | Cham : Springer | 2018

The Earth has limited resources while the resources in space are virtually unlimited. Further development of humanity will require going beyond our planet and exploring of extraterrestrial bodies and their resources. This book investigates Outer[...]

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Paris Climate Agreement: beacon of hope

R.J. Salawitch, Author ; A.P. Hope, Author ; W.R. Tribett, Author ; B.F. Bennett, Author | Cham : Springer | 2018

This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global warming will likely remain below 2ºC, relative to preindustrial, throughout this century provided: a) both the uncondition[...]

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Satellite-based Earth observation : trends and challenges for economy and society

Anita Rinner, Editor ; Christian Brunner, Editor ; Georg Königsberger, Editor ; Hannes Mayer, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2018

The book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation. Contributors include legal experts in the field and representatives from institutions such as the European Space Agency, the European Space[...]

Evaluating Measurement Accuracy : a practical approach /

Semyon G Rabinovich, Author | Cham : Springer | Springer series in measurement science and technology | 2017

This book presents a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the theory of measurement accuracy and provides solutions that fill significant and long-standing gaps in the classical theory. It eliminates the shortcomings of the classical theor[...]

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Exploring the Martian moons : a human mission to Deimos and Phobos /

Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried, Author | Cham : Springer | 2017

This book explores the once popular idea of 'Flexible Path' in terms of Mars, a strategy that would focus on a manned orbital mission to Mars's moons rather than the more risky, expensive and time-consuming trip to land humans on the Martian sur[...]

The human body and weightlessness : operational effects, problems and countermeasures /

William Thornton, Author ; Frederick Bonato, Author | Cham : Springer | 2017

This book focuses on all of the major problems associated with the absence of body weight in space, by analyzing effects, adaption, and re-adaptation upon returning to Earth, using sound scientific principles embedded in a historical context.[...]

Linking the space Shuttle and space stations : early docking technologies from concept to implementation

David Shayler, Author | Cham : Springer | 2017

Docking technologies had to constantly evolve as the designs of the early space stations changed. It was hoped the shuttle would make missions to the Russian Salyut and American Skylab stations, but these were postponed until the Mir station bec[...]

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Next stop Mars : the why, how, and when of human missions

Giancarlo Genta, Author | Cham : Springer | 2017

This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet. Considering the environmental dangers and the engineering and desig[...]

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Satellite earth observations and their impact on society and policy

Masami Onoda, Editor ; Oran R. Young, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2017

The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations i[...]

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Satellite earth observations and their impact on society and policy

Masami Onoda, Editor ; Oran R. Young, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2017

The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations i[...]

Satellite earth observations and their impact on society and policy

Masami Onoda, Editor ; Oran R. Young, Editor | Cham : Springer | 2017

The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations i[...]