SpaceX

Starship to Mars – The First 20 Years

AvErik Seedhouse

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Detailing the Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, the book shows how SpaceX is able to offer a full spectrum of light, medium, and heavy lift launch capabilities to its customers and how it is able to deliver spacecraft into any inclination and altitude, from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit to planetary missions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-12
Mått:170 x 244 x 12 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Springer Praxis Books
Antal sidor:220
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030991807

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Dr. Erik Seedhouse is an associate professor in spaceflight operations and a research scientist specializing in space life sciences and physiology, the subject in which he obtained his PhD while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998. In 2009, he was one of the final candidates for selection as an astronaut in the CSA’s Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. Through the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences and he he completed his suborbital scientist astronaut certification and hopes to fly on a suborbital vehicle in the near future. Between 2008-13, Seedhouse was Director of Canada's Manned Centrifuge and Hypobaric Chamber Operations. He works as an associate professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a manned spaceflight consultant, triathlon coach, occasional Hollywood consultant, author and public speaker.

Recensioner i media

“Seedhouse’s book, outlining SpaceX’s failures as well as its successes, makes Musk’s wish … feasible.” (Andy Sinharay, Aerospace, February, 2024)

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Elon Musk.- Chapter 2: Space Xers.- Chapter 3: The Engines: Merlin, Draco and Raptor.- Chapter 4: The Rockets: From the Falcon 1 to the Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy to the BFR.- Chapter 5: The Dragons.- Chapter 6: Flight Operations.- Chapter 7: Defense Contracts.- Chapter 8: A Man on Mars in 10 Years.- Index.