عنوان

"Read you loud and clear!" :

شابک

0160801915

شابک

9780160801914

شماره

b511070

شماره

NAS 1.21:2007-4233

شماره

NAS 1.21:2007-4233

عنوان اصلي

"Read you loud and clear!" :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network /

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Sunny Tsiao

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Washington, DC :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2008

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xlii, 481 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

25 cm

عنوان فروست

NASA SP ;

مشخصه جلد

2007-4232 [i.e. 2007-4233]

متن يادداشت

Shipping list no.: 2009-0357-P

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index

متن يادداشت

Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Invisible network -- 1. Early years -- 2. Evolution of a network -- 3. Mercury Space Flight network -- 4. Preparing for the moon -- 5. Apollo years -- 6. Era of change -- 7. Network in space -- 8. New landscape -- 9. Legacy -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1. Acronyms, abbreviations, glossary -- Appendix 2. Maps -- Appendix 3. Radio frequency chart -- Appendix 4. Honeysuckle station log for Apollo 11 -- Index -- NASA history series

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

From the Dust Jacket: Regardless of how sophisticated it may be, no spacecraft is of any value unless it can be tracked accurately to determine where it is and how it is performing. At the height of the space race, 6,000 men and women operated NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network at some two dozen locations across five continents. This network, known as the STDN, began its operation by tracking Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite that was launched into space by the former Soviet Union. Over the next 40 years, the network was destined to play a crucial role on every near-Earth space mission that NASA flew. Whether it was receiving the first television images from space, tracking Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, or data acquiring for Earth science, the STDN was that intricate network behind the scenes making the missions possible. Some called it the "Invisible Network," a hallmark of which was that no NASA mission has ever been compromised due to a network failure. Read You Loud and Clear! is a historical account of the STDN, starting with its formation in the late 1950s to what it is today in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It traces the roots of the tracking network from its beginnings at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) space-based constellation of today. The story spans the early days of satellite tracking using the Minitrack Network, through the expansion of the Satellite Tracking And Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and finally, to the Space and Ground Networks of today. Written from a nontechnical perspective, the author has translated a highly technical subject into historical accounts told within the framework of the U.S. space program. These accounts tell how international goodwill and foreign cooperation were crucial to the operation of the network and why the space agency chose to build the STDN the way it did. More than anything else, the story of NASA's STDN is about the "unsung heroes of the space program."

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

GPO

شماره انبار

033-000-01308-6

دسترس پذيري

$59.00

عنوان

"Read you loud and clear!"

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Project Apollo (U.S.)-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Ground support systems (Astronautics)-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Space vehicles-- Tracking-- History

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tsiao, Sunny,1963-

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

United States., NASA History Division

تاريخ عمليات

20161213132816.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y