Archive-name: space/references
Last-modified: $Date: 96/09/17 15:40:32 $ See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Compilation copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by Jonathan P. Leech. This document may be redistributed in its complete and unmodified form. Other use requires written permission of the author. REFERENCES ON SPECIFIC AREAS PUBLISHERS OF SPACE/ASTRONOMY MATERIAL Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1290 24th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122 More expensive but better organized slide sets. Cambridge University Press 32 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 Crawford-Peters Aeronautica P.O. Box 152528 San Diego, CA 92115 (619) 287-3933 An excellent source of all kinds of space publications. They publish a number of catalogs, including: Aviation and Space, 1945-1962 Aviation and Space, 1962-1990 Space and Related Titles European Southern Observatory Information and Photographic Service Dr R.M. West Karl Scharzschild Strasse 2 D-8046 Garching bei Munchen FRG Slide sets, posters, photographs, conference proceedings. Finley Holiday Film Corporation 12607 East Philadelphia Street Whittier, California 90601 (213)945-3325 (800)FILMS-07 Wide selection of Apollo, Shuttle, Viking, and Voyager slides at ~50 cents/slide. Call for a catalog. Hansen Planetarium Publications 1845 South 300 West, # A Salt Lake City, Utah 84115-1804 (801)-483-5400 / (800)-321-2369 (801)-483-5484 (fax) Said to hold sales on old slide sets. Look in Sky & Telescope for contact info. Kluwer Academic Publishers (617)-871-6600 Lunar and Planetary Institute also Univ. Space Research Assn. (USRA) Division of Educational Programs also USRA Division of Space Life Sciences Center for Advanced Space Studies 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston TX 77058-1113 (713)-486-2182 LPI has a quarterly magazine, "The Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin," edited by thompson@lpi.jsc.nasa.gov (P. Thompson). Also technical, geology-oriented slide sets, with supporting booklets. John Wiley & Sons 605 Third Avenue New York, NY 10158-0012 Microcosm Suite #230 2601 Airport Drive Torrance, CA 90505 (310)-539-9444 Newell Color Lab 221 N. Westmoreland Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90004-4892 (213)-380-2980 (213)-739-6984 (FAX) Offers an extensive collection of Voyager, Viking, Magellan, Galileo and Hubble Space Telescope images in print (b/w and color) format, 35mm slides, transparencies and Kodak Photo CDs. Sky Publishing Corporation PO Box 9111 Belmont, MA 02178-9111 Offers "Sky Catalogue 2000.0" on PC floppy with information (including parallax) for 45000 stars. Roger Wheate Geography Dept. University of Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 (403)-220-4892 (403)-282-7298 (FAX) wheate@uncamult.bitnet Offers a 40-slide set called "Mapping the Planets" illustrating recent work in planetary cartography, comes with a booklet and information on getting your own copies of the maps. $50 Canadian, shipping included. Superintendent of Documents US Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 Univelt, Inc. P. O. Box 28130 San Diego, Ca. 92128 Publishers for the American Astronomical Society. US Naval Observatory 202-653-1079 (USNO Bulletin Board via modem) 202-653-1507 General Willmann-Bell P.O. Box 35025 Richmond, Virginia 23235 USA (804)-320-7016 9-5 EST M-F CAREERS IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY In 1990 the Princeton Planetary Society published the first edition of "Space Jobs: The Guide to Careers in Space-Related Fields." The publication was enormously successful: we distributed 2000 copies to space enthusiasts across the country and even sent a few to people in Great Britain, Australia, and Ecuador. Due to the tremendous response to the first edition, PPS has published an expanded, up-to-date second edition of the guide. The 40-page publication boasts 69 listings for summer and full-time job opportunities as well as graduate school programs. The second edition of "Space Jobs" features strategies for entering the space field and describes positions at consulting and engineering firms, NASA, and non-profit organizations. The expanded special section on graduate schools highlights a myriad of programs ranging from space manufacturing to space policy. Additional sections include tips on becoming an astronaut and listings of NASA Space Grant Fellowships and Consortia, as well as NASA Centers for the Commercial Development of Space. To order send check or money order made payable to Princeton Planetary Society for $4 per copy, plus $1 per copy for shipping and handling (non-US customers send an International Money Order payable in US dollars) to: Princeton Planetary Society 315 West College Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 SL-9 COMET/JUPITER IMPACT Dan Bruton (astro@tamu.edu) maintains a lengthy FAQ covering the spectacular impact of fragments of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July, 1994. It can be obtained at ftp://ftp.tamu.edu/pub/comet/ The JPL Shoemaker-Levy home page has a large collection of images and the latest news on the impact; it's at http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/ DC-X SINGLE-STAGE TO ORBIT (SSTO) PROGRAM BMDO SSRT (Single Stage Rocket Technology) project has funded a suborbital technology demonstrator called DC-X that flew successfully three times in August and September 1993. The SSRT program has been moved from BMDO to NASA. Plans are to upgrade the DC-X vehicle and continue flight tests, followed by a building more capable test vehicles (designated X-33 and X-34). With luck this would culminate in a SSTO demonstrator in 5-6 years. DC-X and the SSTO concept have attracted a great deal of interest on the net, and discussion continues. An collection of pictures and files relating to DC-X is at ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/pub/delta-clipper/ http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/delta-clipper/title.html A SSRT news mailing list, which echoes additions to this archive site, can be subscribed to by sending email to "listserv@zimbazi.cc.utexas.edu" with a first line containing "subscribe ssrt-news". Contact Chris W. Johnson (chrisj@bongo.cc.utexas.edu). HOW TO NAME A STAR AFTER A PERSON Official names are decided by committees of the International Astronomical Union, and are not for sale. There are purely commercial organizations which will, for a fee, send you pretty certificates and star maps describing where to find "your" star. These organizations have absolutely no standing in the astronomical community and the names they assign are not used by anyone else. It's also likely that you won't be able to see "your" star without binoculars or a telescope. See the back pages of Astronomy or other amateur astronomy publications for contact info; one such organization may be found at: International Star Registry 34523 Wilson Road Ingleside, IL 60041 This is not an endorsement of ISR. LLNL "GREAT EXPLORATION" The LLNL "Great Exploration", a plan for an on-the-cheap space station, Lunar base, and Mars mission using inflatable space structures, excited a lot of interest on the net and still comes up from time to time. Some references cited during net discussion were: Avation Week Jan 22, 1990 for an article on the overall Great Exploration NASA Assessment of the LLNL Space Exploration Proposal and LLNL Responses by Dr. Lowell Wood LLNL Doc. No. SS 90-9. Their address is: PO Box 808 Livermore, CA 94550 (the NASA authors are unknown). Briefing slides of a presentation to the NRC last December may be available. Write LLNL and ask. Conceptual Design Study for Modular Inflatable Space Structures, a final report for purchase order B098747 by ILC Dover INC. I don't know how to get this except from LLNL or ILC Dover. I don't have an address for ILC. LUNAR PROSPECTOR Lunar Exploration Inc. (LEI) is a non-profit corporation working on a privately funded lunar polar orbiter. Lunar Prospector is designed to perform a geochemical survey and search for frozen volatiles at the poles. A set of reference files describing the project is in ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/LEI/ LUNAR SCIENCE AND ACTIVITIES Grant H Heiken, David T Vaniman, and Bevan M French (editors), "Lunar Sourcebook, A User's Guide to the Moon", Cambridge University Press 1991, ISBN 0-521-33444-6; hardcover; expensive. A one-volume encyclopedia of essentially everything known about the Moon, reviewing current knowledge in considerable depth, with copious references. Heavy emphasis on geology, but a lot more besides, including considerable discussion of past lunar missions and practical issues relevant to future mission design. *The* reference book for the Moon; all others are obsolete. Wendell Mendell (ed), "Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century", $15. "Every serious student of lunar bases *must* have this book" - Bill Higgins. Available from: Lunar and Planetary Institute 3303 NASA Road One Houston, TX 77058-4399 If you want to order books, call (713)486-2172. Thomas A. Mutch, "Geology of the Moon: A Stratigraphic View", Princeton University Press, 1970. Information about the Lunar Orbiter missions, including maps of the coverage of the lunar nearside and farside by various Orbiters. MARS DIRECT / LUNAR DIRECT Robert Zubrin and collaborators have developed several proposals for near-term, low cost manned missions to Mars and the Moon. These proposals center around the use of "indigenous propellants" to reduce the mass which must be launched from Earth - for example, sending a robotic "mining" vehicle to Mars before the astronauts arrive, which would extract methane from the atmosphere for use on the return trip. Some references are: Zubrin, R. and Baker, D., "Mars Direct: A Simple, Robust, and Cost Effective Architecture for the Space Exploration Initiative, AIAA paper 91-0326, 29th Aerospace Science Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Jan. 7-10, 1991. Zubrin, R. and Baker, D., "Humans to Mars in 1999", Aerospace America, Aug. 1990, p. 30-32, 41. Walberg, G., "Ho Shall We Go to Mars? A Review of Mission Scenarios", Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 30, No. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1993, p.129-139. ORBITING EARTH SATELLITE HISTORIES A list of Earth orbiting satellites (that are still in orbit) is in ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/Satellites.gz SPACECRAFT MODELS References to plans, kits, building, and other information can be found in the Rec.Models.Rockets FAQ in the rec.models.rockets newsgroup. Greg Bollendonk (gregb@gemini.den.mmc.com) has provided a list of spacecraft models, current prices, mail order sources, and periodicals and literature in the field. This is available at ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/ModelCatalog.gz Sven Knudson has lots more information about scale models and model rockets at http://www.dtm-corp.com/~sven/models/models.html http://www.dtm-corp.com/~sven/rockets/rockets.html ROCKET PROPULSION George P. Sutton, "Rocket Propulsion Elements", 5th edn, Wiley-Interscience 1986, ISBN 0-471-80027-9. Pricey textbook. The best (nearly the only) modern introduction to the technical side of rocketry. A good place to start if you want to know the details. Not for the math-shy. Straight chemical rockets, essentially nothing on more advanced propulsion (although earlier editions reportedly had some coverage). Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang, "Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines", revised, updated, and enlarged by many others. Volume 147 in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, AIAA 1992, ISBN 1-56347-013-6. Order through "Tasco", which sells books for the AIAA. They are reachable at 1-800-682-2422, 9 to 5 eastern time. Cost is $109.95. The updated version is well worth having. In spite of its title, it isn't strictly limited to engines but also deals with issues closely coupled to engine design, such as tank pressurization, engine-vehicle interfaces etc. It appears that the update is largely the work of the older generation of engineers at Rocketdyne, with the idea that "It is immensely important that the skills, experience, and know-how of this earlier generation be preserved and passed on to a younger generation - clearly, completely, and effectively" (W.F. Ezell, V.P. Engineering, Rocketdyne, in the book's preface). [review by Bruce Dunn] SPACECRAFT DESIGN Brij N. Agrawal, "Design of Geosynchronous Spacecraft", Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-200114-4. James R. Wertz ed, "Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control", Kluwer, ISBN 90-277-1204-2. P.R.K. Chetty, "Satellite Technology and its Applications", McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-8306-9688-1. "Spacecraft Systems Engineering", Peter Fortescue and John Stark (editors), John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-93451-8. Henry Spencer: "I think I would rate this as better than Wertz&Larson in a lot of ways. It doesn't go into the same depth on some topics, especially the ones that are more mission planning than hardware design. On the other hand, it goes into noticeably more depth on many things, and it is generally more interesting reading. For serious spacecraft engineering I'd want both, but this is the one I'd recommend for someone who just wanted to buy one book for a good technical overview." Wiley J. Larson and James R. Wertz (editors), "Space Mission Analysis and Design, 2nd edition", Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht/Boston), and Microcosm (Torrance, CA) 1992, ISBN 1-881883-01-9 (paperback) or 0-7923-1998-2 (hardback) This looks at system-level design of a spacecraft, rather than detailed design. 23 chapters, 4 appendices, about 865 pages. It leads the reader through the mission design and system-level design of a fictitious earth-observation satellite, to illustrate the principles that it tries to convey. Editors indicate that the tables have been reviewed at length and any errors corrected in this edition; further corrections may be sent to Jim Wertz (jwertz@netcom.com). Hardback may be ordered from Kluwer (see publisher addresses above), paperback from Microcosm ($39.50) ESOTERIC PROPULSION SCHEMES (SOLAR SAILS, LASERS, FUSION...) Dani Eder (eder@hsvaic.hv.boeing.com) maintains a "Canonical List of Space Transport Methods" describing dozens of concepts and providing some in-depth references to the technical literature. This is available from ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/eder_transport_list.gz A smaller set of references on some of these concepts follows. ANTIMATTER "Antiproton Annihilation Propulsion", Robert Forward AFRPL TR-85-034 from the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (AFRPL/XRX, Stop 24, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93523-5000). NTIS AD-A160 734/0 PC A10/MF A01 PC => Paper copy, A10 => $US57.90 -- or maybe Price Code? MF => MicroFiche, A01 => $US13.90 Technical study on making, holding, and using antimatter for near-term (30-50 years) propulsion systems. Excellent bibliography. Forward is the best-known proponent of antimatter. This also may be available as UDR-TR-85-55 from the contractor, the University of Dayton Research Institute, and DTIC AD-A160 from the Defense Technical Information Center, Defense Logistics Agency, Cameron Station, Alexandria, VA 22304-6145. And it's also available from the NTIS, with yet another number. "Advanced Space Propulsion Study, Antiproton and Beamed Power Propulsion", Robert Forward AFAL TR-87-070 from the Air Force Astronautics Laboratory, DTIC #AD-A189 218. NTIS AD-A189 218/1 PC A10/MF A01 Summarizes the previous paper, goes into detail on beamed power systems including " 1) pellet, microwave, and laser beamed power systems for intersteller transport; 2) a design for a near-relativistic laser-pushed lightsail using near-term laser technology; 3) a survey of laser thermal propulsion, tether transportation systems, antiproton annihilation propulsion, exotic applications of solar sails, and laser-pushed interstellar lightsails; 4) the status of antiproton annihilation propulsion as of 1986; and 5) the prospects for obtaining antimatter ions heavier than antiprotons." Again, there is an extensive bibliography. "Application of Antimatter - Electric Power to Interstellar Propulsion", G. D. Nordley, JBIS Interstellar Studies issue of 6/90. BUSSARD RAMJETS AND RELATED METHODS R. W. Bussard, "Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight", Astronautica Acta 6 (1960): 179 - 194. G. L. Matloff and A. J. Fennelly, "Interstellar Applications and Limitations of Several Electrostatic/Electromagnetic Ion Collection Techniques", JBIS 30 (1977):213-222 N. H. Langston, "The Erosion of Interstellar Drag Screens", JBIS 26 (1973): 481-484 C. Powell, "Flight Dynamics of the Ram-Augmented Interstellar Rocket", JBIS 28 (1975):553-562 A. R. Martin, "The Effects of Drag on Relativistic Spacefight", JBIS 25 (1972):643-652 D.P. Whitmire, "Relativistic Spaceflight and the Catalytic Nuclear Ramjet", Acta Astronautica 2 (1975): 497 - 509. D.P. Whitmire and A.A. Jackson, "Laser Powered Interstellar Ramjet", JBIS 30 (1977):223 - 226. FUSION "A Laser Fusion Rocket for Interplanetary Propulsion", Roderick Hyde, LLNL report UCRL-88857. (Contact the Technical Information Dept. at Livermore) Fusion Pellet design: Fuel selection. Energy loss mechanisms. Pellet compression metrics. Thrust Chamber: Magnetic nozzle. Shielding. Tritium breeding. Thermal modeling. Fusion Driver (lasers, particle beams, etc): Heat rejection. Vehicle Summary: Mass estimates. Vehicle Performance: Interstellar travel required exhaust velocities at the limit of fusion's capability. Interplanetary missions are limited by power/weight ratio. Trajectory modeling. Typical mission profiles. References, including the 1978 report in JBIS, "Project Daedalus", and several on ICF and driver technology. "Fusion as Electric Propulsion", Robert W. Bussard, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 6, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1990 Fusion rocket engines are analyzed as electric propulsion systems, with propulsion thrust-power-input-power ratio (the thrust-power "gain" G(t)) much greater than unity. Gain values of conventional (solar, fission) electric propulsion systems are always quite small (e.g., G(t)<0.8). With these, "high-thrust" interplanetary flight is not possible, because system acceleration (a(t)) capabilities are always less than the local gravitational acceleration. In contrast, gain values 50-100 times higher are found for some fusion concepts, which offer "high-thrust" flight capability. One performance example shows a 53.3 day (34.4 powered; 18.9 coast), one-way transit time with 19% payload for a single-stage Earth/Mars vehicle. Another shows the potential for high acceleration (a(t)=0.55g(o)) flight in Earth/moon space. "The QED Engine System: Direct Electric Fusion-Powered Systems for Aerospace Flight Propulsion" by Robert W. Bussard, EMC2-1190-03, available from Energy/Matter Conversion Corp., 9100 A. Center Street, Manassas, VA 22110. [This is an introduction to the application of Bussard's version of the Farnsworth/Hirsch electrostatic confinement fusion technology to propulsion. 1500<Isp<5000 sec. Farnsworth/Hirsch demonstrated a 10**10 neutron flux with their device back in 1969 but it was dropped when panic ensued over the surprising stability of the Soviet Tokamak. Hirsch, responsible for the panic, has recently recanted and is back working on QED. -- Jim Bowery] "PLASMAKtm Star Power for Energy Intensive Space Applications", by Paul M. Koloc, Eight ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, special issue FUSION TECHNOLOGY, March 1989. Aneutronic energy (fusion with little or negligible neutron flux) requires plasma pressures and stable confinement times larger than can be delivered by current approaches. If plasma pressures appropriate to burn times on the order of milliseconds could be achieved in aneutronic fuels, then high power densities and very compact, realtively clean burning engines for space and other special applications would be at hand. The PLASMAKtm innovation will make this possible; its unique pressure efficient structure, exceptional stability, fluid-mechanically compressible Mantle and direct inductive MHD electric power conversion advantages are described. Peak burn densities of tens of megawats per cc give it compactness even in the multi-gigawatt electric output size. Engineering advantages indicate a rapid development schedule at very modest cost. [I strongly recommend that people take this guy seriously. Bob Hirsch, the primary proponent of the Tokamak, has recently declared Koloc's PLASMAKtm precursor, the spheromak, to be one of 3 promising fusion technologies that should be pursued rather than Tokamak. Aside from the preceeding appeal to authority, the PLASMAKtm looks like it finally models ball-lightning with solid MHD physics. -- Jim Bowery] GAS GUNS There's a good article (replete with pictures) in the August 10, 1992 issue of Aviation Week entitled "World's Largest Light Gas Gun Nears Completion at Livermore." In addition, that article refers to another article on the same subject in their July 23, 1990 issue. GUN LAUNCHERS (GENERAL) "Battle of the Big Shots" Frank Kuznik, _Air_&_Space_, August/September, 1993, pp. 54-61. Discusses all the current gun-launch-to-space concepts as well as the concept's checkered history (G.V. Bull). ION DRIVES NASA Spacelink carries material covering many aspects of ion drives and describing the SERT I and II missions, which flight-tested cesium ion thrusters in the 1960s and 70s. There are numerous references. http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov:80/NASA.Projects/NASA.Launch.Vehicles/Proposed.Systems/Ion.Propulsion.Engine/ MASS DRIVERS (COILGUNS, RAILGUNS) IEEE Transactions on Magnetics contain the proceedings of the Symposium on Electromagnetic Launcher Technology, including hundreds of papers on the subject. It's a good look at the state of the art, though perhaps not a good tutorial for beginners. Anybody know some good review papers? Vol MAG-18, No. 1, Jan 82 (EML 1) Vol MAG-20, No. 2, Mar 84 (EML 2) Vol MAG-22, No. 6, Nov 86 (EML 3) Vol 25, No. 1, Jan 89 (EML 4) Vol 27, No. 1, Jan 91 (EML 5) Vol 29, No. 1, Jan 93 (EML 6) NUCLEAR ROCKETS (FISSION) "Technical Notes on Nuclear Rockets", by Bruce W. Knight and Donald Kingsbury, unpublished. May be available from: Donald Kingsbury, Math Dept., McGill University, PO Box 6070, Station A, Montreal, Quebec M3C 3G1 Canada. "An Historical Perspective of the NERVA Nuclear Rocket Engine Technology Program", W. H. Robbins and H. B. Finger, US Government Document #NAS 1.26:187154. Written in 1990-91 as a summary when consideration to restarting the nuclear rocket program was being given. RAM ACCELERATORS "The Ram Accelerator: A New Chemical Method of Accelerating Projectiles to Ultrahigh Velocities" A. Hertzberg, A.P. Bruckner, and D.W. Bogdanoff, _AIAA_Journal_, Vol. 26, No. 2, February, 1988. The seminal reference. "The Ram Accelerator: A Chemically Driven Mass Launcher" P. Kaloupis and A.P. Bruckner, AIAA Paper 88-2968, AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 24th Joint Propulsion Conference, July 11-13, 1988, Boston, MA. Applications to surface-to-orbit launching. "Ram Accelerator Demonstrates Potential for Hypervelocity Research, Light Launch," Breck W. Henderson, _Aviation_Week_&_Space_Technology_, September 30, 1991, pp. 50-51. "Beyond Rockets: the Scramaccelerator" J.W. Humphreys and T.H. Sobota, _Aerospace_America_, Vol. 29, June, 1991, pp. 18-21. "Ramming Speed" Gregory T. Pope, _Discover_, March 1994, pp. 50-55. Non-technical articles on the status of ram accelerator technology. SOLAR SAILS Starsailing. Solar Sails and Interstellar Travel. Louis Friedman, Wiley, New York, 1988, 146 pp., paper $9.95. (Not very technical, but an adequate overview.) "Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails (Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 21, pp. 187-95, Jan.-Feb. 1984) TETHERS _Tethers and Asteroids for Artificial Gravity Assist in the Solar System,_ by P.A. Penzo and H.L. Mayer., _Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets_ for Jan-Feb 1986. Details how a spacecraft with a kevlar tether of the same mass can change its velocity by up to slightly less than 1 km/sec. if it is travelling under that velocity wrt a suitable asteroid. "Tethers in Space Handbook, 2nd Edition", Paul A Penzo & Paul W Ammann. NASA Office of Advanced Program Development, 1989. NTIS N92-19248/3 PC A12/MF A03 It may be possible to obtain this handbook from: NASA Office of Advanced Program Development NASA HQ Code DD Washington, DC 20546 NASA Conference Publication 2422 Applications of Tethers in Space Workshop Proceedings Vols 1 and 2. [Proceedings of a workshop held in Venice, Italy, Octover 15-17, 1985] GENERAL "Alternate Propulsion Energy Sources", Robert Forward AFPRL TR-83-067. NTIS AD-B088 771/1 PC A07/MF A01 Dec 83 138p Keywords: Propulsion energy, metastable helium, free-radical hydrogen, solar pumped (sic) plasmas, antiproton annihiliation, ionospheric lasers, solar sails, perforated sails, microwave sails, quantum fluctuations, antimatter rockets... It's a wide, if not deep, look at exotic energy sources which might be useful for space propulsion. It also considers various kinds of laser propulsion, metallic hydrogen, tethers, and unconventional nuclear propulsion. The bibliographic information, pointing to the research on all this stuff, belongs on every daydreamer's shelf. Indistinguishable From Magic, Dr. Robert L. Forward, Baen, 1995. Nontechnical discussion of tethers, antimatter, gravity control, space drives, etc. The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide To Interstellar Travel. Eugene F. Mallove and Gregory L. Matloff, Wiley, 1989. ISBN 0-471-61912-4. Probably the best semi-technical introduction to interstellar flight. SOLAR POWER SATELLITES Solar Power Satellite. Peter Glaser, Frank Davidson and Katinka Csigi, John Wiley & Sons, 1993. ISBN 0-471-95428-4. A comprehensive review of SPSs as an option for meeting future energy requirements in an environmentally friendly way. SPY SATELLITES *Deep Black*, by William Burrows; "best modern general book for spysats." Now in paperback. 1) A Base For Debate: The US Satellite Station at Nurrungar, Des Ball, Allen and Unwin Australia, 1987 ISBN 0 04 355027 4 [ covers DSP early warning satellites] 2) Pine Gap: Australia and the US Geostationary Signals intelligence satellite program, Des Ball, Allen and Unwin Australia, 1988 ISBN 0 04 363002 5. [covers RHYOLITE/AQUACADE, CHALET/VORTEX, and MAGNUM signals intelligence satellites; out of print?] 3) Guardians: Strategic Reconnaissance Satellites, Curtis Peebles, 1987, Ian Allan, ISBN 0 7110 17654 [ good on MOL, military Salyut and Soviet satellites, less so on others. Tends to believe what he's told so flaws in discussion of DSP, RHYOLITE et al..] 4) America's Secret Eyes In Space: The Keyhole Spy Satellite Program, Jeffrey Richelson, 1990, Harper and Row, ISBN 0 88730 285 8 [ in a class of its own, *the* historical reference on the KEYHOLE satellites] 5) Secret Sentries in Space, Philip J Klass, 1971. "long out of print but well worth a look" Some recently declassified spy satellite images are at http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/dclass/dclass.html SPACE CAPSULE LOCATIONS Ross Finlayson (finlayson@eng.sun.com) has put together a list of locations of space capsules of the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo type, in http://xenon.stanford.edu/~rsf/CapsuleLocations.html SPACE SHUTTLE COMPUTER SYSTEMS A FAQ on the shuttle General Purpose Computers, maintained by Ken Jenks (kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov), is at: ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/shuttle-GPC-FAQ.txt.gz http://sd-www.jsc.nasa.gov/gpc.html Some printed references: %J Communications of the ACM %V 27 %N 9 %D September 1984 %K Special issue on space [shuttle] computers %A Myron Kayton %T Avionics for Manned Spacecraft %J IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems %V 25 %N 6 %D November 1989 %P 786-827 Other various AIAA and IEEE publications. Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience, James E. Tomayko, Wichita State University, NASA Contractor Report CP-182505, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1988, 417 pages. Understanding Computers: Space, by the Editors of Time-Life Books, part of the multiple volume series "Understanding Computers", Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1993, 128 pages, ISBN 0-8094-7590-1, US $14.95. Space Shuttle Avionics System John F. Hanaway and Robert W. Moorehead NASA SP-504 Available via: Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 Document #NAS 1.21:504. This is an easily readable 62 page book that contains a wealth of information including history, rationale, alternate designs considered, design tradeoffs and descriptions of the Shuttle data processing system (DPS) and its' associated Redundancy Management (RM) system and philosophy. One of the authors is the former head of the NASA division which developed the Shuttle DPS design. SETI COMPUTATION (SIGNAL PROCESSING) %A D. K. Cullers %A Ivan R. Linscott %A Bernard M. Oliver %T Signal Processing in SETI %J Communications of the ACM %V 28 %N 11 %D November 1984 %P 1151-1163 %K CR Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.4.1 [Operating Systems]: Process Management - concurrency; I.5.4 [Pattern Recognition]: Applications - signal processing; J.2 [Phsyical Sciences and Engineering]: astronomy General Terms: Design Additional Key Words and Phrases: digital Fourier transforms, finite impulse-response filters, interstellar communications, Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, signal detection, spectrum analysis AMATEUR SATELLIES & WEATHER SATELLITES A writeup on receiving and interpreting weather satellite photos is in ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/WeatherPhotos.gz The American Radio Relay League publication service offers the following references (also see the section on AMSAT in the space groups segment of the FAQ): ARRL Satellite Experimenters Handbook, #3185, $20 ARRL Weather Satellite Handbook, #3193, $20 IBM-PC software for Weather Satellite Handbook, #3290, $10 AMSAT NA 5th Space Symposium, #0739, $12 AMSAT NA 6th Space Symposium, #2219, $12 Shipping is extra. The American Radio Relay League Publications Department 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 (203)-666-1541 TIDES Srinivas Bettadpur contributed a writeup on tides, in ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/Tides.gz It covers the following areas: - 2-D Example of Tidal Deformation - Treatment of Tidal Fields in Practice - Long term evolution of the Earth-Moon system under tides The writeup refers to the following texts: "Geophysical Geodesy" by K. Lambeck "Tides of the planet Earth" by P. Melchior ASTRONOMICAL MNEMONICS A listing of astronomical mnemonics is in ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/MISC/ NOTE: the remaining FAQ sections do not appear in sci.astro, as they cover material of relevance only to sci.space. NEXT: FAQ #6/13 - Contacting NASA, ESA, and other space agencies/companies User Contributions:
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