Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar ExplorationSpringer Science & Business Media, 2004 - 302 Seiten "[T]ells the story of what the key researchers in interstellar exploration are doing, and how they move their projects forward, when most of the relevant science has not been experimentally verified, and most of the engineering is still decades, if not centuries, into the future."--Cover. |
Inhalt
DESIGNING A MISSION | 1 |
THE TARGET ALPHA CENTAURI AND OTHER NEARBY STARS | 31 |
THE TROUBLE WITH ROCKETS | 57 |
THE ANTIMATTER ALTERNATIVE | 75 |
JOURNEY BY STARLIGHT THE STORY OF THE SOLAR SAIL | 95 |
OF LIGHTSAILS RAMJETS AND FUSION RUNWAYS | 123 |
BREAKING THROUGH AT NASA SCIENCE ON THE EDGE | 155 |
INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATION | 183 |
A SPACECRAFT THAT CAN THINK FOR ITSELF | 211 |
THE FUTURE OF THE INTERSTELLAR IDEA | 235 |
AFTERWORD | 257 |
NOTES | 259 |
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