Screen LibraryAsteroids prospective energy and material resources /
This book investigates the prospective energy and material resources of asteroids, provides a collection of topics related to asteroid exploration and utilization, and presents past and future technologies and solutions to old problems that could become reality in our life time.
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39244-3 |
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This book investigates the prospective energy and material resources of asteroids, provides a collection of topics related to asteroid exploration and utilization, and presents past and future technologies and solutions to old problems that could become reality in our life time. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 689 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9783642392443 (electronic bk.) 364239244X (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QB651 |
| CLC: | P185.7 |
| Contents: | Asteroids close-up: what we have learned from twenty years of space exploration -- Trojan asteroids in the inner Solar System -- Orbital and dynamical characteristics of small bodies in the region of inner planets -- Prospecting Asteroid Resources -- What's out there? Asteroid models for target selection and mission planning -- Earth's Temporarily-Captured Natural satellites -- The First Step Towards Utilization of Asteroid Resources -- Human missions to NEO's -- A system perspective -- Designing robots for gravity-independent locomotion -- Bio-inspired landing approaches and their potential use on extraterrestrial bodies -- Electric Power System Options for Robotic Miners -- Rubble-pile Near Earth Objects: Insights from Granular Physics -- Asteroids: Anchoring and Sample Acquisition Approaches in Support of Science, Exploration, and In Situ Resource Utilization -- Closed-Cycle Pneumatics for Asteroid Regolith Mining -- Extracting Asteroidal Mass for Robotic Construction -- Curing of construction composite materials on asteroids -- Architecture for an Asteroid-Mining Spacecraft -- Near Earth Asteroid -- Prospection, Orbit Modification, Mining and Habitation -- Available asteroid resources in the Earth's neighborhood -- Asteroid Capture -- Change the Asteroid Trajectory -- Opportunities for Asteroid Retrieval Missions -- Shaped Metal Earth-delivery System -- Artificial gravitation on Asteroids -- Making asteroids habitable -- Usage of Asteroid Resources for Space-based Geo-engineering -- Using asteroid for Launch/Landing, Change of Trajectory and Acceleration of Space Ships -- Observation of asteroids for searching extraterrestrial artifacts -- The Case for Asteroids: Commercial Concerns and Considerations -- Legal Considerations on Asteroid Exploitation and Deflection. |