Big dish : building America's deep space connection to the planets / Douglas J. Mudgway.
Big dish : building America's deep space connection to the planets / Douglas J. Mudgway.
Big dish : building America's deep space connection to the planets / Douglas J. Mudgway.
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Gainesville, University Press of Florida 2005.
Date
2005.
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N621.38254/5
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Foreword / Roger D. Launius -- 1. Introduction -- 2. High desert -- 3. World network -- 4. Reaching farther out -- 5. The contract -- 6. Goldstone, California -- 7. Soon there were three -- 8. Bigger is better -- 9. Implementation -- 10. Closing scenes.
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Gainesville, University Press of Florida 2005.
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Florida
Date Published
2005.
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"NASA's visionary Deep Space Network (DSN), a communications grid that provides the backbone of antennas and satellite links that track and control spacecraft launched from Earth, continues to play an integral role in the United States' quest to explore space. Douglas J. Mudgway participated in the successful development and operation of the DSN fr...
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Big dish : building America's deep space connection to the planets / Douglas J. Mudgway.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N621.38254/5
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74VKP5q4AMEb
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ISBN
0813028051 (alk. paper)
9780813028057 (alk. paper)
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621.38254
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991019797119702626
