Books written by Viorel Badescu
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The International Handbook of Space Technology
The electric propulsion of a spacecraft using beam power from a powersat is also possible. The beam power can also be used for rescue operation in remote regions of Earth, or anywhere in the ocean. The advantages of a central power ...
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Asteroids: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
This book investigates asteroids' prospective energy and material resources. It is a collection of topics related to asteroid exploration, and utilization.
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Power Engineering: Advances and Challenges Part B: Electrical Power
The book reviews current literature in the advances, innovative options and solutions in power engineering. It has been written for researchers, engineers, technicians and graduate and doctorate students interested in power engineering.
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Optimal Control in Thermal Engineering
This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile ...
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Moon: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
Alexey Kondyurin School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia 21.1 Where Will We Live While on the Moon? ... rockets (accuracy of landing of a few meters is too complicate, or it needs Moon's tracks to collect all landed blocks).
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The International Handbook of Space Technology
This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft.
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Inner Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
This book investigates Venus and Mercury prospective energy and material resources. It is a collection of topics related to exploration and utilization of these bodies.
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Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface: Recent Advances
Czeplak G, Noia M, Ratto CF (1991) An assessment of a statistical method to estimate solar irradiance at the earth's surface from geostationary satellite data. Renewable Energy 1(5/6): ...
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Outer Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
Moreover, collisions with cosmic dust and gases could produce very dangerous effects to both passengers and the ... These would be named StarChip, capable of making the journey to Alpha Centauri, our nearest extrasolar star system.
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Mars: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
... Trees for Space Agriculture Although trees have been quite common in our terrestrial life and used in many applications, wooden materials have never been employed for spacecrafts. The ... Mars 523 Trees for Space Agriculture Eating Insects.