Astronomers often have to deal with randomness. For example, stars and radiotelescopes are sources of randomness. On the other hand, randomly distributed stars in some astronomical images can make harder the task of an algorithm that aims the automatic identification of important structures in...

Less than 20 years after its founding, SpaceX boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Berger takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX....

This essay is about my prior experiences as a rocket scientist on Apollo rocket engines, with comparison to my subsequent experiences at the Federal Reserve, and in academia, with emphasis upon differences in collaboration and scientific methodology. A primary difference is in the emphasis on...

The book presents an avant-garde and interdisciplinary technical-entrepreneurial approach for ensuring sustainability by bringing a Systems Engineering (SE) novel mechanism applied to telemedicine context making use of space technologies into the light. The distinctive theory from herein...

RadioNet reflects the European radio astronomy community's commitment to closer cooperation among leading infrastructures as a means of intensifying and enhancing its research. Launched in 2004, the initiative has built sufficient momentum to establish itself as a coordination framework...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The Rise, Stagnation, and Possible Revitalization of NASA -- chapter 3 Building on Winning the Ansari X Prize: Mojave Aerospace Ventures, LLC; Scaled Composites, LLC; Virgin Galactic Airways; and The Spaceship Company -- chapter 4 From Space Travel Broker to...

"While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a technical description of the robots that have been deployed in space, primarily on the Moon and Mars. Design/methodology/approach – Following an introduction, this paper describes the robotic devices that have been deployed on the Moon and Mars. It also...

This book introduces the concept of space-based technology commercialization and offers a first-time analysis of plausible opportunities, examining the overall marketability of tourism in outer space, including business case studies on celestial solar power and space debris that demonstrate the...

"This book introduces the concept of space-based technology commercialization and offers a first-time analysis of plausible opportunities, examining the overall marketability of tourism in outer space, including business case studies on celestial solar power and space debris that demonstrate the...

Purpose – The adaptation perspective dominates the issue of organizational change and assumes that organizational inertia increases organizational mortality. This assumption is inadequate to analyze organizational change in risky activities. The purpose of this paper is to underline the...

This book explores the contribution space systems might make in dealing with looming societal challenges related to threats to the physical environment and the management of natural resources, growing mobility and its consequences, increasing security concerns, and the shift to the information...

This book explores the contribution space systems might make in dealing with looming societal challenges related to threats to the physical environment and the management of natural resources, growing mobility and its consequences, increasing security concerns, and the shift to the information...

Am Beispiel des Bundesministeriums für Forschung und Technologie (BMFT) und seiner administrativen Vorläufer wird in dem Buch gezeigt, wie auf Bundesebene schrittweise politische Kompetenzen in der Forschungspolitik aufgebaut, die entsprechenden Organisations- und Entscheidungsstrukturen...

Robotic exploration of the planet Mars is the goal of two space missions launched in 2003. Their aim was to use robots and a host of instrumentation to take samples of soil and rock and to analyse them for evidence of life. The NASA project, which landed on Mars in January 2004, has put the two...