Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age - Hardcover

Gavaghan, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387949143 ISBN 13: 9780387949147

Publisher: Copernicus, 1997

Synopsis

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, made satellite technology possible.
"...a gripping read." -NEW SCIENTIST

About this title

About the Author:

Helen Gavaghan is a science writer and editor who has lived in Washington and London. She has a degree in Biophysics and a fascination with the world of space.

Review:

...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 prototypes of satellites we take for granted today, the scientists and engineers needed superhuman dedication. It is fitting that their efforts be acknowledged, admired and recorded for posterity. -- New Scientist, Charles Sheffield

About this edition

• Publisher: Copernicus
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0387949143
• ISBN 13: 9780387949147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 319