springer.com Brian Harvey Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft The American Explorer Program Series: Space Exploration Presents the history of the Explorer program of small American scientific satellites Outlines Explorer's pioneering studies in a number of scientific disciplines, narrating the story of how these satellites improved our knowledge of near- Earth space, the interrelationship between the Sun and Earth, and astronomy at wavelengths impossible to study from the surface of Earth Brings together space science, spacecraft design, the personalities involved, the rockets (Juno, Scout, Delta etc), the infrastructure, the management, and 1st ed. 2018, XII, 284 p. 131 illus., 73 the dissemination process in one comprehensively informative package of illus. in color. Explorer program history Compares and contrasts the Explorer program with other contemporaneous Printed book Softcover programs of scienti 34,99 € | £29.99 | $44.99 Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in [1]37,44 € (D) | 38,49 € (A) | CHF 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, 41,50 demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have already been launched. Explorers have made some of the fundamental eBook discoveries of the Space Age. Explorer 1 discovered Earth’s radiation belts. Later Explorers 28,88 € | £23.99 | $34.99 surveyed the Sun, the X-ray and ultraviolet universes, black holes, magnetars and gamma ray [2]28,88 € (D) | 28,88 € (A) | CHF bursts. An Explorer found the remnant of the Big Bang. One Explorer chased and was the first 33,00 to intercept a comet. The program went through a period of few launches during the crisis of Available from your library or funding for space science in the 1980s. However, with the era of ‘faster, cheaper, better,’ the springer.com/shop program was reinvented, and new exiting missions began to take shape, like Swift and the MyCopy [3] asteroid hunter WISE. Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft gives an account of each Printed eBook for just mission and its discoveries. € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy Error[en_EN | Export.Bookseller. MediumType | SE] Order online at springer.com / or for the Americas call (toll free) 1-800-SPRINGER / or email us at: [email protected]. / For outside the Americas call +49 (0) 6221-345-4301 / or email us at: [email protected]. The first € price and the £ and $ price are net prices, subject to local VAT. Prices indicated with [1] include VAT for books; the €(D) includes 7% for Germany, the €(A) includes 10% for Austria. Prices indicated with [2] include VAT for electronic products; 19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All prices exclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. [3] No discount for MyCopy. Part of .