Bøger af Brian Harvey

Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan¿s space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago. Since then, its space probes have travelled to the Moon, Venus, the asteroids and even a comet. The country launched weather satellites to warn of typhoons, communications satellites to connect the Japanese archipelago and remote sensing technology to observe the Earth and warn of climate change. Engineering technology satellites became the basis of Japan¿s electronic industry as Japanese astronauts flew into space, working on their Kibo module on the International Space Station.Now, Japan is one of Asiäs leading space powers, alongside China and India, vying for influence in the region. Its solid and liquid-fueled rockets are estimated to be among the most advanced and reliable in the world, its technology among the best. This book examines the history of Japan¿s space program, the country¿s current state of development and its future. It describes the extensive infrastructure that has gone into the forging of Japan¿s picturesque oceanside launch sites, training centers, testing facilities and tracking stations. This book also outlines the politics of space in Japan, financial difficulties, its space industry, the symbiotic relationship with the United States and the recent sharp change-of-course to invest in military satellites.From the role of influential personalities, such as Hideo Shima and Shinichi Nakasuka, to political leaders, such as Yasuhiro Nakasone and Takeo Kawamura, you will read about how Japan has paved its own star-lit path to space. The future may expect to send Japanese probes to Mercury and the moons of Mars, all while the first Japanese astronauts set foot on our own Moon and drive innovative rovers across its surface.

Canis in libro; Or, The Dog in the Book is about dog books collected over a lifetime by the author that traces the history of dogs in books since ancient times. It is a chronological bibliography that not only describes each book, provides something the author, and more importantly, something about the dog in the book.

The Chinese space program has sometimes been called the last of the secretspace programs. Although it is far less secretive now than formerly,fascinating revelations are still being made.This book is the history of the Chinese space program from its earliesttimes to the historic breakthrough of manned flight. Significant eventsincludeEUR Middle Ages: the inventon of the rocketEUR 1956: the establishment of the space programEUR 1970: the launch of its first Earth satelliteEUR 1975: the launch into orbit and recovery of a satelliteEUR 1984: the first communications satellite is put into 24hr orbitEUR 2003: China's first yuhangyuan, Yang Liwei, orbits the EarthEUR 2007 (planned): first probe to the MoonChina¹s Space Program gives China the prominence it deserves as Asia¹sleading spacefaring nation.

The development of the space industry in the Asian and Pacific Rim region provides the context for this book. The two major countries hoping for leadership in the area (apart from China) are Japan and India, both of whom have significant launcher capabilities.There is a general introductory chapter which places the space programmes of the region in the comparative context of the other space-faring nations of the world. The author reviews the main space programmes of Japan and India in turn, concentrating on their origins, the development of launcher and space facilities, scientific and engineering programmes, and future prospects.The book concludes with a chapter comparing how similarly/differently Japan and India are developing their space programmes, how they are likely to proceed in the future, and what impact the programmes have had in their own region and what they have contributed so far to global space research.

Launch sites, where all space journeys begin, are almost magical places, well embedded in popular culture. Few people have not seen images of Cape Canaveral, with the launch tower that sent Apollo 11 to the moon. Others launch sites are less well known. Some are well publicized, but hard to reach, like Kourou in Guyana. Some are quite secret, like Sohae in North Korea and Palmachim in Israel. Some are virtually unknown to all but space historians, like Hammaguir, Algeria, though it was the launch location for the third country to orbit its own satellites, France. The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites is the first book to present all 25

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before. China is now a great space superpower alongside the United States and Russia, sending men and women into orbit, building a space laboratory (Tiangong) and sending probes to the Moon and asteroids.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. It introduces the launchers (Juno, Thor, etc.), the launch centers, the ground centers and key personalities like James Van Allen who helped develop and run the spacecraft's exciting programs.

Brian Harvey recounts for the first time the definitive history of scientific Russian space probes and the knowledge they acquired of the Earth, its environment, the Moon, Mars and Venus.

Until the Apollo-Soyuz flight of 1972, the Russian Space Program was shrouded in such complete secrecy that only rumors of failures (or catastrophes) reached the West.

This work introduces the important emerging space powers of the world. Brian Harvey describes the origins of the Japanese space program, from rocket designs based on WW II German U-boats to tiny solid fuel 'pencil' rockets, which led to the launch of the first Japanese satellite in 1970.

This, fifty years after Sputnik, is the definitive book on the Russian space program. He examines the various types of unmanned applications programs as well as the crucial military program, and even analyzes the infrastructure of production, launch centres and tracking.

This book is the first regular space exploration annual. It provides an annual update on recent space launches, missions and results, to be published every year in September. It is written at an accessible level for both young and older space enthusiasts.

Illustrated with photographs from Soviet Venus and Mars probes, images of spacecraft, diagrams of flight paths and maps of landing sites, this book draws on published scientific papers, archives, memoirs and other material. The program's scientific and engineering legacy is also addressed, within the Soviet space effort as a whole.

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth's orbit.

Offers a comprehensive account of the development of Europe's highly successful space programme. This title explains the politics, science and organisation of the European Space Programme and the many technological achievements of its satellites and rockets. It focuses on Europe placing the various national programmes in a European context.