LEADER 05162nam 22007695 450 001 9910300407903321 005 20200703070708.0 010 $a3-319-07608-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329752 035 $a(EBL)1967811 035 $a(OCoLC)903961464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001424426 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11801989 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001424426 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11367539 035 $a(PQKB)11115926 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-07608-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1967811 035 $a(PPN)183520327 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329752 100 $a20150102d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn $eAn Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet /$fby Michael Meltzer 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (420 p.) 225 1 $aSpace Exploration 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-07607-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart I: Creating a New Expedition to Saturn -- Conceiving and Funding the Mission -- Building an International Partnership and Preventing Mission Cancellation -- Part II: Designing, Fabricating, and Integrating the Cassini-Huygens Space Vessel -- Constructing the Cassini Orbiter -- The Titan Huygens Probe -- Integrating the Cassini Orbiter, Huygens Probe, and Titan/Centaur Launch Vehicle -- Using Plutonium to Run a Spacecraft -- Part III: From Earth to Saturn -- The Interplanetary Journey -- How a Few People Can Make a Big Difference: The Doppler Shift Problem That Nearly Ended the Huygens Mission -- The Huygens Titan Probe Mission -- The Saturn Tour: Decision-Making Processes, Trajectory Design, and Changes of Management -- Part IV: A Great Natural Laboratory -- The Mother Planet and its Magnetosphere -- The Ring System -- The Icy Moons -- Titan Observations by the Cassini Orbiter -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Breakdown of Mission Costs. 330 $aCassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and development required to build the spacecraft; its 2.2-billion mile journey from Earth to the Ringed Planet; and the amazing discoveries from the mission. The author traces how the visions of a few brilliant scientists matured, gained popularity, and eventually became a reality. Innovative technical leaps were necessary to assemble such a multifaceted spacecraft and reliably operate it while it orbited a planet so far from our own. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft design evolved from other deep space efforts, most notably the Galileo mission to Jupiter, enabling the voluminous, paradigm-shifting scientific data collected by the spacecraft.  Some of these discoveries are absolute gems. A small satellite that scientists once thought of as a dead piece of rock turned out to contain a warm underground sea that could conceivably harbor life. And we now know that hiding under the mist of Saturn?s largest moon, Titan, is a world with lakes, fluvial channels, and dunes hauntingly reminiscent of those on our own planet, except that on Titan, it?s not water that fills those lakes but hydrocarbons. These and other breakthroughs illustrate why the Cassini-Huygens mission will be remembered as one of greatest voyages of discovery ever made. 410 0$aSpace Exploration 606 $aAerospace engineering 606 $aAstronautics 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aPlanetology 606 $aObservations, Astronomical 606 $aAstronomy?Observations 606 $aAerospace Technology and Astronautics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17050 606 $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 606 $aPlanetology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G18010 606 $aAstronomy, Observations and Techniques$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22014 615 0$aAerospace engineering. 615 0$aAstronautics. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aPlanetology. 615 0$aObservations, Astronomical. 615 0$aAstronomy?Observations. 615 14$aAerospace Technology and Astronautics. 615 24$aPopular Science in Astronomy. 615 24$aPlanetology. 615 24$aAstronomy, Observations and Techniques. 676 $a520 676 $a523.4 676 $a620 676 $a629.1 700 $aMeltzer$b Michael$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0792553 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300407903321 996 $aThe Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn$92498788 997 $aUNINA