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Big Dish: Building America's Deep Space Connection to the Planets
Douglas Mudgway
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Description for Big Dish: Building America's Deep Space Connection to the Planets
hardcover. The success of the US quest to explore space depends upon NASA's Deep Space Network, a grid that provides the antennas and satellite links that track and control craft launched from Earth. Douglas J. Mudgway tells the story of the challenges, successes, and failures that beset the dedicated engineers who turned the initial vision into reality. Num Pages: 264 pages, 55 b&w illustrations, 3 tables, 2 appendixes, notes, reference, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
The astonishing success of the United States' quest to explore space depends upon NASA's visionary Deep Space Network (DSN), a communications grid that provides the backbone of antennas and satellite links that track and control spacecraft launched from Earth. Douglas J. Mudgway participated in development and operation of the DSN from its infancy in the 1960s to its maturity in the 1990s, and he brings his practical experience to this story of the challenges, successes, and frequent failures that beset the dedicated engineers who turned the initial vision into reality. Set against the Cold War race for technical supremacy in ... Read more
The astonishing success of the United States' quest to explore space depends upon NASA's visionary Deep Space Network (DSN), a communications grid that provides the backbone of antennas and satellite links that track and control spacecraft launched from Earth. Douglas J. Mudgway participated in development and operation of the DSN from its infancy in the 1960s to its maturity in the 1990s, and he brings his practical experience to this story of the challenges, successes, and frequent failures that beset the dedicated engineers who turned the initial vision into reality. Set against the Cold War race for technical supremacy in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813028057
SKU
V9780813028057
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About Douglas Mudgway
Douglas J. Mudgway is an independent consultant for NASA on the history of deep space planetary communications. After thirty years active service at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, he retired in 1991 and received the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal. He is author of Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network, 1957-1997.
Reviews for Big Dish: Building America's Deep Space Connection to the Planets
"Many space history books concentrate on the hardware actually launched into space. Few books look at the ground systems needed to successfully operate the spacecraft and receive scientific data. Douglas J. Mudgway's Big Dish is one of those few, looking at the huge, sophisticated mechanical and electronic marvels used to control planetary spacecraft and receive imagery and other data transmitted ... Read more