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The Logic of Microspace: Technology and Management of Minimum-Cost Space Missions (Space Technology Library)

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This is a very unusual book!! How often can you read a technologically informative book with a wry grin on your face? (and perhaps an occasional hoot of laughter, right out loud...) In addition to the insider's story on small satellite engineering, the reader gets treated to Rick Fleeter's philosophy of life, engineering, and the universe, always shared with a liberal dose of humor.

The book is largely written for engineers outside the satellite world, and is readable for just about anyone with a reasonable understanding of electronics, but covers all aspects of satellite design at all levels from the ground up. Although much of the information is pretty basic, it is always presented with insights that bring it to a higher level.

This is an excellent book for anyone with a curiousity about satellites and/or the businesses and technologies (aerospace, rad-hard components, telecommunications, etc.) connected with them. It also provides a hugely enjoyable peek into the engineering process - and the engineers - that produce those satellites.

After 45 years of dominance by governments and hugh corporations, perhaps the little guy is starting to make inroads into the spacce satellite market. At least that's what Rick Fleeter thinks. In "The Logic of Microspace" Fleeter talks about the revolution in small, low-cost space satellites taking place at the beginning of the 21sy century. He notes that these tiny satellites, and the microspace technology they engender, is transforming the space world in ways not seen since the advent of communications a satellites.

At a basic level this book offers understandable, humorous, fast-paced, and sometimes insightful but always provocative comments on the technical, economic, and philosophical aspects of microsatellites. Toward the end of "The Logic of Microspace" Fleeter presents a manifesto for the "microspace revolution," describing alluring opportunities for benefiting humanity and the space industry via low-cost satellites and space missions.

I haven't received this book until now.It's so long to keep me waiting for it. It has been late by a week for expected date.