[LIVRE ANGLAIS] Our Space Environment, Opportunities, Stakes and Dangers (Claude Nicollier)

Our Space Environment, Opportunities, Stakes and Dangers

by Claude Nicollier (Author), Roger-Maurice Bonnet (Author), Thomas Schildknecht (Author), Daniel Neuenschwander (Author), Werner Schmutz (Author)

    Hardcover
    $79.95



This book explores the opportunities, the potential and the hazards of Earth's immediate space environment. It covers the physical characteristics of this portion of space, the influence of deeper space, observing and forcasting tools, the problem of space debris, the evolution of satellites, the different orbits and their uses, Earth's place in the solar system and its influence on climate and weather, the sun and its action on our planet, asteroid and comets and the means to detect them, laws and regulations, the political actors and role of nations.

Product Details

    Hardcover: 270 pages
    Publisher: EPFL Press (December 15, 2015)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 2940222886
    ISBN-13: 978-2940222889

Amazon.com:  http://www.amazon.com/Space-Environment-Opportunities-Stakes-Dangers/dp/2940222886/



S'il y a des membres qui sont à L'Ecole Polythechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL- l'éditeur), peut-être en savent-ils plus?

[Modération Henri : il serait judicieux de traduire le résumé pour les lecteurs non-anglophones, FCS est un forum francophone]