Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond. |
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... satellites , and Orbital Sciences revealed plans for a group of twenty - four . A company called ECCO / CCI then appeared with its own constellation of forty - eight satellites . Ellipsat then produced an eighteen - satellite plan , and ...
... satellite boom . There are others : Space Access , Beal Aerospace , Microcosm , Advent , Uni- versal Space Lines ... the list goes on . The aerospace launch start - ups described in this chapter are all im- mature and nearly all are ...
... satellite termination ( and the one guaranteed to occur if the others are avoided ) is exhaustion of onboard propellants needed for attitude control and stationkeeping . If a way could be found to refuel the satellites on - orbit ...