Cassini Huygens Owners Workshop Manual |
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Cassini Huygens Owners Workshop Manual |
Jan 20 2017, 08:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
I recently sent back to the publisher the proofs on my Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual on Cassini-Huygens.
It should be out at the end of April, just around Cassini's last Titan encounter. Hardback 196 pages, 325 images – many of which have not been seen in public before. The book covers the origins of Cassini, details of the hardware of Huygens, Cassini and their science instruments, and the special testing needed for them. It portrays how they were integrated at KSC with the radioisotope power source and the Titan IV-Centaur launch vehicle, and describes how the trajectory around Saturn was designed, and how the thousands of science observations were planned. There's a little on results from the mission, as well as a review of some of the exotic future mission concepts that have been proposed. I think a valuable element included is treatment of some of the challenges and fixes, like Huygens' radio relay, the failure of Cassini's propulsion system pressure regulator just after launch, trouble with Cassini's reaction wheels, and so on. Amazon.com lists it at $36. I hope it might be of interest to many UMSF readers. |
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Apr 6 2017, 07:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 10-December 06 From: Atlanta Member No.: 1472 |
I just pre-ordered mine. Any plan to update Space System Failures? There have been lots of new materials in the last 12 years.
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Apr 9 2017, 01:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
Any plan to update Space System Failures? There have been lots of new materials in the last 12 years. It's definitely on my list, but not at the top of my list. So many books to write..... And book-writing has been on hold for the last half-year or so as New Frontiers proposal-writing takes every waking moment (and will be read by about 30 people, tops, with no fame or royalties, just the glimmer of hope that one day you might get a mission to fly...) You're certainly right, lots of good new subject matter. Schiaparelli, Akatsuki, Curiosity's near-miss with a wrong gravity field, Hitomi, Glory, Phobos-Grunt, Phoenix's difficulties with sampling, GOES-13 meteoroid strike, Juno's motor issue, Philae & Rosetta's challenges etc. Rest assured I keep a folder up-to-date with stuff as it crops up |
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Apr 10 2017, 03:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
It's definitely on my list, but not at the top of my list. So many books to write..... And book-writing has been on hold for the last half-year or so as New Frontiers proposal-writing takes every waking moment (and will be read by about 30 people, tops, with no fame or royalties, just the glimmer of hope that one day you might get a mission to fly...) You're certainly right, lots of good new subject matter. Schiaparelli, Akatsuki, Curiosity's near-miss with a wrong gravity field, Hitomi, Glory, Phobos-Grunt, Phoenix's difficulties with sampling, GOES-13 meteoroid strike, Juno's motor issue, Philae & Rosetta's challenges etc. Rest assured I keep a folder up-to-date with stuff as it crops up Can you say which proposal(s) you are on? -------------------- |
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