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Spacecraft for Astronomy
Author(s): Joseph A Angelo Jr (Author)
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Publication Date: 30 Dec. 2006
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0816057745
- ISBN-13: 9780816057740
Book Description
Examines the important roles that astronomical instruments play above the Earth’s atmosphere. This volume also describes the historic events, scientific principles, and technical breakthroughs that allow complex orbiting astronomical observatories to increase our understanding of the universe, its origin, and its destiny.
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