Mariner Mission to Venus
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2021 with the help of original edition published long back [1978]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (69)
- MARINER MISSION TO VENUS
- MARINER MISSION TO VENUS
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 VENUS
- THE DOUBLE STAR OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
- THE CONSENSUS PRIOR TO MARINER II
- THE CYTHEREAN RIDDLE: LIVING WORLD OR INCINERATED PLANET
- CHAPTER 2 PREPARING FOR SPACE
- A PROBLEM IN CELESTIAL DYNAMICS
- THE ORGANIZATION
- NASA: FOR SCIENCE
- JPL: JATO TO MARINER
- GENERAL DYNAMICS: THE ATLAS
- LOCKHEED: AGENA B
- CHAPTER 3 THE SPACECRAFT
- THE SPACEFRAME
- THE POWER SYSTEM
- CC&S: THE BRAIN AND THE STOPWATCH
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RELAYING THE DATA
- ATTITUDE CONTROL: BALANCING IN SPACE
- PROPULSION SYSTEM
- TEMPERATURE CONTROL
- THE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- CHAPTER 4 THE LAUNCH VEHICLE
- THE ATLAS BOOSTER: POWER OF SIX 707’S
- THE AGENA B: START AND RESTART
- CHAPTER 5 FLIGHT INTO SPACE
- MARINER I: AN ABORTIVE LAUNCH
- MARINER II: A ROLL BEFORE PARKING
- THE PARKING ORBIT
- ORIENTATION AND MIDCOURSE MANEUVER
- THE LONG CRUISE
- ENCOUNTER AND BEYOND
- THE RECORD OF MARINER
- CHAPTER 6 THE TRACKING NETWORK
- DEEP SPACE INSTRUMENTATION FACILITY
- Table 1. Deep Space Instrumentation Facility Stations
- THE GOLDSTONE COMPLEX
- THE WOOMERA STATION
- THE JOHANNESBURG STATION
- MOBILE TRACKING STATION
- CHAPTER 7 THIRTEEN MILLION WORDS
- COMMUNICATION CONTROL
- THE OPERATIONS CENTER
- CENTRAL COMPUTING FACILITY
- CHAPTER 8 THE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
- Table 2. Mariner Experiments
- DATA CONDITIONING SYSTEM
- COSMIC DUST DETECTOR
- SOLAR PLASMA EXPERIMENT
- HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION EXPERIMENT
- THE MAGNETOMETER
- MICROWAVE RADIOMETER
- INFRARED RADIOMETER
- MARINER’S SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
- CHAPTER 9 THE LEGACY OF MARINER
- SPACE WITHOUT DUST?
- THE UBIQUITOUS SOLAR WIND
- HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLES: FATAL DOSAGE?
- A MAGNETIC FIELD?
- THE SURFACE: HOW HOT?
- CLOUD TEMPERATURES: THE INFRARED READINGS
- THE RADAR PROFILE: MEASUREMENTS FROM EARTH
- CHAPTER 10 THE NEW LOOK OF VENUS
- APPENDIX SUBCONTRACTORS
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
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