New cosmic horizons : space astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope / David Leverington.
| Author/creator | Leverington, David, 1941- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
| Description | xii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Early work with the V2 -- Solar x-rays and the earth's ionosphere -- Non-solar x-ray sources -- Sputnik I -- The American programme pre-Sputnik -- The Soviet programme -- Early scientific results -- The formation of NASA -- Early lunar missions -- The first mission to Mars and Venus -- The American Ranger programme -- Korolev and the Russian programme -- Surveyor, Orbitor and Apollo -- The Soviet response -- Mariner 4 to Mars -- Russian disasters -- Venera 4 -- Mariner 5 to Venus -- Veneras 5 and 6 -- American funding problems -- Mariners 6 and 7 -- Summary -- American plans for the early 1970s -- Veneras 7 and 8 -- Mariner 10 -- Mariner 9, Mars 2 and 3, and the Great Martian Dust Storm of 1971 -- Mars 4 to 7 -- Viking -- Veneras 9 and 10 -- Pioneer-Venus -- Veneras 11 and 12 -- International collaboration -- Veneras 13 to 16 -- Planning the Halley encounters -- Vegas 1 and 2 at Venus -- The Halley intercepts -- Magellan -- The Phobos Spacecraft -- Mars Observer -- Programmatics and finance -- Pioneers 10 and 11 -- The Voyager Spacecraft -- Voyager 1 at Jupitor -- Voyager 2 at Jupitor -- Voyager 1 at Saturn -- Voyager 2 at Saturn -- Voyager 2 at Uranus -- Voyager 2 at Neptune -- [The Sun] Early work -- The solar wind -- Flares -- The Corona -- Skylab -- Summary -- Solar Max -- The solar constant -- Yohkoh -- Ulysses -- SOHO -- Summary -- [Early spacecraft observations of non-solar system sources] Introduction -- Explorer 11 and gamma rays -- Orbiting astronomical observations and ultraviolet observations -- X-rays -- Pulsars -- Uhuru -- Copernicus -- The European dimension -- TD-1 -- Dwarf Novae -- ANS -- Ariel 5 -- AM Herculis-The first polar -- Gamma-rays -- Summary -- Programmatics -- HEAO-1 -- HEAO-2 or the Einstein Observatory -- SS 433 -- HEAO-3 -- Summary -- The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) -- The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) -- Exosat -- Summary -- COBE -- Supernova 1987A -- Rosat -- The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory -- Geminga -- Gamma ray bursts -- The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer -- The Infrared Space Observatory -- [The Hubble Space Telescope] Pre-launch history -- The spacecraft and its insruments -- Launch and post-launch checkout -- Scientific results - The first three years -- Hardware problems and the first servicing mission -- The second three years -- Concluding remarks. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 476-481) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 00041456 |
| ISBN | 0521651379 |
| ISBN | 0521658330 (pbk.) |