Madders, Kevin
This book will provide a comprehensive source of information for space specialists and others having a close interest in European space affairs. Written by an acknowledged expert and former space agency official, the work opens up a vital component of Europe's technostructure and the world's space programs. Its mass of information will serve the insider as a handy reference while its lively analysis will assist public judgment of European space efforts. The book first explores the Space Age's origins and Europe's response up to the 1970s. It then devotes its bulk to the present scene by investigating ESA, Eutelsat, Arianespace, Eumetsat, ASTRA, national agencies and other bodies. How this scene works, what has been achieved, how space technology is made and used and how policy is formed are main concerns, but of interest too are various crises, including recently Europe's man-in-space program. The book identifies challenges for the space community, business, and the EU and how they may be met.
Contents: Preface/ About the author/ Outline of chapters/ Table of Contents/ 1. Introduction: Space, a tale of several Europes/ 2. Rockets, the Cold War and Sputnik's civilian legacy/ 3. Blus Streak's fate and the end of British Trilateralism /4. Going from the very small to the very big: The impulse towards space research in Europe/ 5. Parallel paths into space/ 6. The building of Europe's early space capacity/ 7. The advent of international satellite communications and Europe/ 8. Now let's play launcher redesign -- ELDO's early tribulations and attempts at reform/ 9. A forum for crisis -- The European space conference/ 10. Metamorphosis: The transformation of ESRO, ELDO's downfall and a Franco-German space pact/ 11. The ESA convention/ 12. ESA's first generation and continuation programmes/ 13. ESA's second generation programmes: Man in space and the long-term plan/ 14. Infrastructure/ 15. Selected aspects of ESA practice/ 16. International cooperation/ 17. The role of National space programmes/ 18. The operational and commercial sector/ 19. Issues of utilization and competition/ 20. La Grande Europe and space/ 21. Synthesis and conclusions/ Glossary.
Subject: history of science
1997 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 628 pp. 59 halftones 3 graphs 19 line diagrams 17 tables
Hardback 0-521-57096-4
$150.00