FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
 Sell Back Your Copy for $16.55
Whether you buy it new on Amazon for $28.78 or somewhere else, you can sell it back through our Book Trade-In Program at the current price of $16.55.
New Price$28.78
Trade-in Price$16.55
Price after
Trade-in$12.23 |
Focuses on the causes of the failures and discusses how the engineering knowledge base has been enhanced by the lessons learned.
Discusses non-fatal anomalies which do not affect the ultimate success of a mission, but which are failures nevertheless.
Describes engineering aspects of the spacecraft, making this a valuable complementary reference work to conventional engineering texts.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Survey,
By
This review is from: Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes (Paperback)
Good at identifying launch failure events and summarizing history, but lacks details on the actual failure modes. Tough area to cover since much of the info is classified, proprietary or lost deep in corporate files.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutly Fascinating Book,
By
This review is from: Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes (Paperback)
This is an absolutely fascinating book. It is the story of learning from failures. In the history of the space programs there have been some 2,500 failures of one kind or another.
I can well remember the first American attempt to launch a satellite using the Vanguard rocket. It was a beautiful rocket. It fired up, rose a few feet, then still perfectly balanced came back down and blew up spectacularly. Then there was the European Mars lander, Beagle 2, the problems with the Hubble Space Telescope, and of course Challenger. Broken into two main parts, the first half of the book is on failures in the Launch Vehicles. The second half goes into the failures in the satellites and space probes. The surprising thing about all these failures is the ability of the engineers to often work around the failures and still get some value out of the mission. It seems the Murphy really rules space activities. Everything has happened from dropping satellites on the floor, to soaking them in water through a hole in the roof, pieces left out, screws tightened to tightly, or not tight enough, hundreds of things. The rockets are designed at the limit of everything to reduce weight, increase performance. The spacecraft have to operate in environments impossible to test on earth. Adding redundancy to a space craft reduces the weight/space available for mission payload. Fascinating book
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Encyclopedic ...,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes (Paperback)
... by which I mean a small amount of information about each of a large number of facts, with very little analysis or insight. And, just about as interesting to read as chapter after chapter of encyclopedia entries.
Looking at each chapter's bibliography, you can tell that the authors spent a lot of time poring over back issues of Aviation Week and other publications, so that might save you some time if you are researching a specific failure. And they do have a very extensive collection of failures - this is not just Apollo 13 and Ariane 5. I was surprised to find mention (and a small amount of detail) of some of the relatively minor programs I have been involved with over the last 15 years or so. However, the visually spectacular failure of the Conestoga launch vehicle (certainly in the category of "minor players") wasn't covered, so this can't be said to be a definitive collection of every launch or spacecraft failure. If you want to know how failures are analyzed post-mortem, or what processes and procedures are put in place to learn from those mistakes, you won't find it here. This is really just a diary of the timeline of failures in the Space Age.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
See all 21 books this book cites
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192250339_.gif){kind=small}
