Sky Alert ! : when satellites fail
How much do we depend on space satellites? Defense, travel, agriculture, weather forecasting, mobile phones and broadband, commerce...the list seems endless. But what would our live be like if the unimaginable happened and, by accident or design, those space assets disappeared?Sky Alert! explores wh...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Colección: | Popular Science
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Sky Alert!, Texte imprimé, 9781461418290 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From the Contents: Part I: How we might lose our Satellites Orbital Debris War.-Part II: If we were to lose our satellites The Global Positioning System (Military Uses) Economic Fallout from the Losing the Global Positioning System GPS and the Average Person Spy Satellites and Military Reconnaissance Communications Weather Forecasting Remote Sensing - Resource Monitoring and Locating Remote Sensing - Environmental Monitoring and Science Part III: What Can We Do? Reduce the Growth of Orbital Debris