Chasing Black Holes : An Insider's View of a Space Astronomy Mission

Hale Bradt

ISBN 10: 0996693955 / ISBN 13: 9780996693950

Edité par Van Dorn Books Jul 2021, 2021

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Neuware - 'Space missions in the movies can seem elegant and straight-forward. Most are anything but! This book takes a personal journey into the labyrinth that a space-mission concept must travel through before a mission blasts off into deep space. Here is the story of the Rossi X ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an Earth-orbiting NASA observatory meant to study X-ray emitting celestial objects. The technical and bureaucratic hurdles facing this mission are described with humor and wry personal anecdotes. And the pay-off Sixteen years of successful observations resulting in critical new insight into black holes and neutron stars'.

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• Titre: Chasing Black Holes : An Insider's View of a Space Astronomy Mission
• Éditeur: Van Dorn Books Jul 2021
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0996693955
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780996693950
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 12 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 12 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 263 grammes

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Space missions in the movies can seem elegant and straight-forward. Most are anything but! This book takes a personal journey into the labyrinth that a space-mission concept must travel through before a mission blasts off into deep space. Here is the story of the Rossi X ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an Earth-orbiting NASA observatory meant to study X-ray emitting celestial objects. The technical and bureaucratic hurdles facing this mission are described with humor and wry personal anecdotes. And the pay-off? Sixteen years of successful observations resulting in critical new insight into black holes and neutron stars.