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Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
Helen Gavaghan
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| #6684900 in Books | Copernicus | 1997-11-07 | 1997-11-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.73 x6.10l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 300 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Very human story with a few technical glitches.|By Edmund K. Parowski|On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into earth orbit. It was named Sputnik, which can be translated from the Russian as "fellow traveler" (Chertok 2006). It was soon itself to have many fellow travelers. Helen Gravaghan's Something New Under the Sun explores the hist||...I found this a gripping read. As Suomi remarked, "How hard we worked!" Having read Gavaghan's book, you can believe it, of him and all the other pioneers. To fight their way through technical, budgetary and bureaucratic obstacles, and to produce the proto
In this, the first history of artificial satellites and their uses, Helen Gavaghan shows how the idea of putting an object in orbit around the earth changed from science fiction to indispensable technology in the twinkling of an eye. Focusing on three major areas of development - navigational satellites, communications, and weather observation and forecasting - Gavaghan tells the remarkable inside story of how obscure men and women, often laboring under strict secrecy, m...
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