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Review of the hardback: '… the book is a must for professionals, graduate and undergraduate students involved in planetary exploration, space mission design and engineering as it is (currently) a unique collection of information in the filed.' Planetary and Space Science
Review of the hardback: 'As the preface states, this volume seeks to provide 'a concise but broad overview of the engineering, science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric probes'. In this, it certainly succeeds. … This nicely designed book, complete with specially commissioned line drawings, is recommended as a valuable addition to the technical literature about the challenges that face engineers and scientists who seek to explore alien worlds with automated spacecraft.' The Observatory
Review of the hardback: '… very nicely written … an excellent addition to technical space literature.' Spaceflight
Review of the hardback: 'As the preface states, this volume seeks to provide 'a concise but broad overview of the engineering, science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric probes'. In this, it certainly succeeds. … This nicely designed book, complete with specially commissioned line drawings, is recommended as a valuable addition to the technical literature about the challenges that face engineers and scientists who seek to explore alien worlds with automated spacecraft.' The Observatory
Review of the hardback: '… very nicely written … an excellent addition to technical space literature.' Spaceflight
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This book provides a concise but broad overview of the engineering, science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric entry probes designed to explore the atmospheres and surfaces of other planets. It covers engineering aspects specific to such vehicles which are not usually treated in traditional spacecraft engineering texts. Examples are drawn from over thirty different lander and entry probe designs that have been used for lunar and planetary missions since the early 1960s. The authors provide detailed illustrations of many vehicle designs from different international space programs, and give basic information on their missions and payloads, irrespective of the mission's success or failure. Several missions are discussed in more detail to demonstrate the broad range of the challenges involved and the solutions implemented. This will form an important reference for professionals, academic researchers and graduate students involved in planetary science, aerospace engineering and space mission development.
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Format:Hardcover
Planetary Landers and Entry Probes is an excellent book with 340 glossy pages filled with technical drawings of unmanned spacecraft and the Apollo Lunar Module.
Chapters include: Engineering issues specific to entry probes, landers or penetrators (1), Previous atmosphere/surface vehicles and their payloads (2), Case studies (3) and an extensive bibliography on engineering, planetary science and historical books on the subject. The technical drawings are excellent. These include the complete spacecraft and specific drawings of the landers or penetrators of: Surveyor, Martian aerobot, Venera series, Vega, Pioneer Venus, Galileo and Jupiter probe, Cassini-Huygens and Titan probe, Ranger, Luna series, Russian Mars series, Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner, Beagle 2, Mars Exploration Rovers, Lunokhod, Apollo LM and manned Soviet LK lander, Viking landers, Mars Polar Lander, Phoenix, Deep Space 2 Mars microprobes, Lunar-A penetrators, Phobos DAS, Rosetta lander Philae, MINERVA on Hayabusa,
The book is an important reference work for academic researchers, aerospace students, enthusiasts in unmanned spaceflight and planetary science.
Philip Corneille
Belgium & Croatia
Chapters include: Engineering issues specific to entry probes, landers or penetrators (1), Previous atmosphere/surface vehicles and their payloads (2), Case studies (3) and an extensive bibliography on engineering, planetary science and historical books on the subject. The technical drawings are excellent. These include the complete spacecraft and specific drawings of the landers or penetrators of: Surveyor, Martian aerobot, Venera series, Vega, Pioneer Venus, Galileo and Jupiter probe, Cassini-Huygens and Titan probe, Ranger, Luna series, Russian Mars series, Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner, Beagle 2, Mars Exploration Rovers, Lunokhod, Apollo LM and manned Soviet LK lander, Viking landers, Mars Polar Lander, Phoenix, Deep Space 2 Mars microprobes, Lunar-A penetrators, Phobos DAS, Rosetta lander Philae, MINERVA on Hayabusa,
The book is an important reference work for academic researchers, aerospace students, enthusiasts in unmanned spaceflight and planetary science.
Philip Corneille
Belgium & Croatia
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Planetary Landers and Entry Probes
26 July 2011
Format:Paperback
This is one of the most amazing and exciting books of any kind I've encountered. Where else will you experience with the authors designing a parachute to deploy at hypersonic speed in an atmosphere of uncertain composition at a temperature of approximately -300F, or designing a spacecraft/lander to keep its electronics at workable temperatures in the transition from radiative cooling of space to the convective cooling of an atmosphere, at such temperatures? The book ranges widely in subjects, as the skills of mission planners and designers must, and expresses complex subjects in a very accessible and often enthralling way.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A book about space with real engineering content
14 Jan 2008
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One of the few books about aerospace engineering that talks in detail about how real spacecraft were engineered.
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