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2012DADAX1782661042www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK 2012-05-30. hardcover. New. 8.50x1.75x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK hardcover
2023SKU1709856Claitor's Pub Division 2023-12-01. paperback. Good. 8x2x11. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Claitor's Pub Division paperback
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20101-1598045369Claitor's Law Books and Publishing 2010. Paperback. New. 2009 ed. edition. 888 pages. 10.80x8.60x1.70 inches. Claitor's Law Books and Publishing paperback
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2013BN240121DATAMOTION PUB LLC 2013. 2013. Softcover. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways - 2009 Edition with 2012 Revisions <br/><br/>Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways - 2009 Edition with 2012 Revisions U. S. Department of Transportaton Federal Highway Administration DATAMOTION PUB LLC paperback
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20182080202102705512Kokushikan University Business Administration 2018. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: 178 pages Size: A5 size Kokushikan University Business Administration paperback
201080986Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs 2010. Presumed First Edition First printing --number of copies assembled is unknown. Three Ring Binder. Very good. The Table of Contents is: MTP 32 vugraphs 4 per page PS 59 vugraphs 4 per page KCP 20 vugraphs 1 per page PX 55 vugraphs--various paginations--1 per page SRS 41 vugraphs--various paginations--1 per page Y12 41 vugraphs--various paginations--1 per page LANL 38 vugraphs--various paginations--1 per page LLNL 48 vugraphs--various paginations--1 per page SNL 158 vugraphs--various paginations--1 per page Agenda 3 pages and Participant list 1 page. In the back pocket is a November 2010 Updated to the NDAA of FY 2010 Section 1251 Report and a stapled seven sheet compilation of Budget Requirements. Some material was marked Official Use Only but this limitation is understood to not longer apply due to the passage of time and public dissemination of comparable information. Approximately 2 inches of material in the binder. The Production Support Program is a DSW Program that funds multi-system manufacturing-based activities that provide individual site production capabilities and capacity for the LEPs LLC production weapon surveillance and weapon assembly and disassembly operations. The Production Support Program also enables the modernization of production capabilities to improve efficiency and ensure that manufacturing operations meet future requirements. This includes maintenance/calibration services for manufacturing operations to meet DoD War Reserve requirements. Collectively these activities directly support execution of systems engineering concepts and production integration. The Production Support Program provides DSW with the capability to conduct life extension work stockpile surveillance dismantlement work neutron generator production and detonator cable assembly production. The Management Technology and Production MTP Program's work scope is a multi-system production-based program that promotes nuclear security enterprise integration and enhances efficiency. MTP activities provide the products components and/or services for multi-weapon system surveillance laboratory/flight test data collection and analysis; weapons reliability reporting to DoD; DSW requirements tracking and execution; management and operation; and stockpile planning. The MTP Program funds plant and laboratory personnel to sustain the stockpile through activities related to surveillance; weapons response process improvements; engineering authorizations; safety assessments; use control technologies; containers; base spares; studies and assessments for nuclear operation safety; production of weapon components for use in multiple weapons systems; and transportation/handling gear for use in multiple weapons systems. The MTP Program also includes activities that benefit the nuclear security enterprise mission as differentiated from Production Support activities which support internal site-specific production missions. National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs unknown
201180419Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2011. Presumed First thus. Three Ring Binder. Good. Includes sections on LANL ICF LLNL ICF SNL ICF LANL ICF LLNL SC NNSS SC and SNL SC. Includes information on ICF Ignition Diagnostics Facility Operations Pulsed Power Science Campaign Primary Assessment Technologies Dynamic Materials Properties Advanced Radiography Secondary Assessment Technologies and Advanced Certification. Some of the cost breakdown is by: Chargebacks Purchases Travel Labor Equipment Training Subcontracts Other Direct Costs Material Institutional costs Service Center and Overheads. This is a rare snapshot into the range of expenditures and the monthly progression of expenditures. Cost analysis is a comparison of costs. Costs used to prepare financial statements are not the same as those used to control operations. Costs may be controllable or non-controllable and are subject to time periods and constraints. For example controllable costs are those the manager may authorize. However costs that may be able to be controlled over the long-term may not be controllable in the short-term.<br/><br/>Total cost is the relationship between production quantity and costs expressed as: Total cost = Fixed Cost Variable Cost Output<br/><br/>Costs are classified according to their behavior. A cost's behavior is how the cost responds to changes in the level of the business activity. Costs are broadly divided into variable costs and fixed costs. For example the total variable cost increases and decreases in relation to the changes in business activity levels. Conversely fixed costs are not affected by business activity level changes remaining the same throughout. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
200986122George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville A.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 2009. Xerox-style reproduction. Assume only a few copies were made for medial representatives. Stapled at upper left corner. Good. Front cover i 1 36 2 pages. Illustrations. Three-hole punched. The top corner of some of the some of the back pages are bent/creased. Contents include Contacts; Media Services Information; LRO/LCROSS Executive Summary; Mission Quick Facts; LRO Quick Facts; LCROSS Quick Facts; Launch Vehicles Mated with LRO/LCROSS; LRO/LCROSS Mission Trajectory; Why the Moon; Historical Explorations of the Moon; LRO Mission Overview; LRO Mission at a Glance; LRO Instruments; LRO Across the Country; LRO Products and Benefits: LRO Spacecraft With Instruments; Treasure Hunting on the Moon: LRO and the Search for Water; Robot Scout: Fly Me Safely to the Moon; LCROSS Mission Overview; LCROSS Mission at a Glance; The Search for Water on the Moon; LCROSS Science Instruments; LCROSS Spacecraft; LCROSS Observation Campaign; Future NASA Lunar Missions; and Program/Project Oversight. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. Its detailed mapping program is identifying safe landing sites locating potential resources on the Moon characterizing the radiation environment and demonstrating new technologies. Launched on June 18 2009 in conjunction with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS as the vanguard of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program LRO was the first United States mission to the Moon in over ten years. LRO and LCROSS were launched as part of the United States's Vision for Space Exploration program. The probe has made a 3-D map of the Moon's surface at 100-meter resolution and 98.2% coverage excluding polar areas in deep shadow including 0.5-meter resolution images of Apollo landing sites. The first images from LRO were published on July 2 2009 showing a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium Sea of Clouds. The total cost of the mission is reported as US$583 million of which $504 million pertains to the main LRO probe and $79 million to the LCROSS satellite. As of 2019 LRO has enough fuel to continue operations for at least seven more years and NASA expects to continue utilizing LRO's reconnaissance capabilities to identify sites for lunar landers well into the 2020s. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the Moon. Launched immediately after discovery of lunar water by Chandrayaan-1 the main LCROSS mission objective was to further explore the presence of water in the form of ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. It was successful in confirming water in the southern lunar crater Cabeus. It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO on June 18 2009 as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years. LCROSS was designed to collect and relay data from the impact and debris plume resulting from the launch vehicle's spent Centaur upper stage and data-collecting Shepherding Spacecraft striking the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon. Centaur had nominal impact mass of 5081 lb and an impact velocity of about 5600 mph releasing the kinetic energy equivalent of detonating approximately 2 tons of TNT. LCROSS suffered a malfunction on August 22 depleting half of its fuel and leaving very little fuel margin in the spacecraft. Centaur impacted successfully on October 9 2009 at 11:31 UTC. The Shepherding Spacecraft descended through Centaur's ejectate plume collected and relayed data impacting six minutes later at 11:37 UTC. Contrary to media reports at the time neither the impact nor its dust cloud could be seen from Earth using the naked eye or telescopes. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center unknown
2010001616México D.F.: Miguel Ángel Porrúa/Administración Portuaria Integral de Campeche 2010 ESTE LIBRO PESA 1.9 KG. PIDA COTIZACION PARA EL FLETE ANTES DE ORDENAR.Guías de luz es el primer volumen de la colección náutica de Campeche Pedro Sainz de Baranda y obra de varios historiadores y fotógrafos campechanos que aportaron su talento. Esta publicación nos aproxima al desarrollo histórico razones y entornos que dieron origen a los faros de Campeche y naturalmente a su esplendorosa belleza plasmada en la colección fotográfica que acompaña a los textos. En dirección norte-sur a través de la costa campechana hacemos un recorrido por la historia de cada uno de sus nueve faros: el de Isla Arena el de Cayo Arcas el de Lerma el del ex templo de San José el de Champotón El del Morro de Seybaplaya el de la Atalaya el de Xicalango y por último el de Isla Aguada. Miguel Ángel Porrúa/Administración Portuaria Integral de Campeche hardcover
201180989Los Alamos NM: Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Los Alamos Site Office 2011. Presumed unique compilation. DVD. Very good. CD/DVD Contains LASO WQAP LASO Institutional QAP LASO Functions Responsibilities and Authorities FRAs and LASO Quality Assurance Management Procedures. Quality assurance QA is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled". This defect prevention in quality assurance differs subtly from defect detection and rejection in quality control and has been referred to as a shift left since it focuses on quality earlier in the process i.e. to the left of a linear process diagram reading left to right. When properly implemented the principles and requirements form a management system to plan perform assess and improve work. The requirements are performance oriented and offer implementation flexibility. The DOE quality management system moves beyond the traditional quality assurance requirements that had become narrowly focused on compliance and inspections. The management system is designed to link with an organization's strategic plan to support mission achievement and the delivery of products and services. The Department's commitment to environment safety and health relies upon work being conducted within an effective management system. DOE line managers and contracting officers must ensure the QA Order and QA Rule are specified in each major contract. The Weapon Quality Assurance FAQS establishes common functional area competency requirements for all National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA Weapon Quality Assurance personnel who provide assistance direction guidance oversight or evaluation of contractor activities that could impact the production maintenance and design of nuclear weapons. The technical FAQS has been developed as a tool to assist NNSA program and field offices in the development and implementation of the TQP in their organization. The NNSA Management System Assessment MSA is an activity sponsored by Quality Management. The assessments are conducted to fulfill Quality Management's responsibilities and cited requirements under DOE O 414.1D Quality Assurance NAP-26 Quality Management System and ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System. MSAs are conducted by trained and certified ISO auditors and involve onsite management system reviews at the NNSA Headquarters HQ facilities in Washington DC Germantown MD Albuquerque NM and the field offices. MSAs are a check at a point in time of an organization's management system to verify whether it is properly implemented maintained and whether mission-related processes are being planned documented executed and subjected to periodic management review. The MSA objective is to strengthen accountability by ensuring that procedures are established and followed. MSAs also enhance risk management resource stewardship and governance across all NNSA federal organizations. These MSAs will be conducted in accordance with an assessment plan and schedule that is developed by the NNSA Management Systems Board MSB. The plan will be approved by the NNSA Management Council. NNSA has developed documented implemented and maintained its Quality Management System QMS to ensure it aligns with select and applicable principles of ISO 9001. With this alignment the NNSA QMS is based upon an approach that: • Identifies the processes needed for the management system; • Determines the sequence and interaction of processes; • Establishes the criteria and methods required to ensure effective operation and management of processes; • Ensures the availability of resources and information necessary to support processes; and • Monitors measures and analyzes processes to achieve planned results and continual improvement. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos Site Office unknown
20052605190192NASA; GPO 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 volumes. Hardcovers and dust jackets. Good bindings and covers. Includes: 1. Realizing the dream of flight : biographical essays in honor of the centennial of flight 1903-2003 2005; 2. Societal impact of spaceflight 2007; 3. Exploring the unknown : selected documents in the history of the U.S. civil space program: v. 1. Organizing for exploration; v. 4. Accessing space; 5. "Read you loud and clear!" : the story of NASA'S spaceflight tracking and data network 2008; 6. William H. Pickering : America's deep space pioneer 2008; 7. Rockets and people. Volume II Creating a Rocket Industry. <br> This is an oversized or heavy set which WILL require additional postage for international delivery outside the US. NASA; GPO hardcover
2009292712Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf Berlin 2009. Softcover Nur Band 11. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut unbenutzt. Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin, paperback
200986131Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2009. Presumed First Edition First printing. Comb binding. Very good. 31 3 pages including covers. Contents include Media Services Information; Quick Facts; NASA's Search for Habitable Planets; Scientific Goals and Objectives; Mission Overview; Spacecraft; Instrument - Photometer; Selecting the Kepler Star Field; Education and Public Outreach; Other Exoplanet Activities; Science Team; and Project Management. The Kepler space telescope is a disused space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki. After nine and a half years of operation the telescope's reaction control system fuel was depleted and NASA announced its retirement on October 30 2018.<br /> Designed to survey a portion of Earth's region of the Milky Way to discover Earth-size exoplanets in or near habitable zones and estimate how many of the billions of stars in the Milky Way have such planets Kepler's sole scientific instrument is a photometer that continually monitored the brightness of approximately 150000 main sequence stars in a fixed field of view. These data were transmitted to Earth then analyzed to detect periodic dimming caused by exoplanets that cross in front of their host star. Only planets whose orbits are seen edge-on from Earth could be detected. Kepler observed 530506 stars and detected 2778 confirmed planets as of June 16 2023. By January 2015 Kepler and its follow-up observations had found 1013 confirmed exoplanets in about 440 star systems along with a further 3199 unconfirmed planet candidates. Four planets have been confirmed through Kepler's K2 mission. In November 2013 astronomers estimated based on Kepler space mission data that there could be as many as 40 billion rocky Earth-size exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way. It is estimated that 11 billion of these planets may be orbiting Sun-like stars. The nearest such planet may be 3.7 parsecs 12 ly away according to the scientists. On January 6 2015 NASA announced the 1000th confirmed exoplanet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. Four of the newly confirmed exoplanets were found to orbit within habitable zones of their related stars: three of the four Kepler-438b Kepler-442b and Kepler-452b are almost Earth-size and likely rocky; the fourth Kepler-440b is a super-Earth. On May 10 2016 NASA verified 1284 new exoplanets found by Kepler the single largest finding of planets to date. Kepler data has also helped scientists observe and understand supernovae; measurements were collected every half-hour so the light curves were especially useful for studying these types of astronomical events. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
200386119Kennedy Space Center FL: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kennedy Space Center 2003. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 61 3 pages plus covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations most in color. Contents include Center Director's Message; NASA Vision and Mission; KSC Goals and Principles; The President's Management Agenca; Significant Events; Expendable Launch Vehicle Program; Space Shuttle Program; Shuttle Upgrades; International Space Station and Shuttle Payload Processing; Payload Carriers Program; Spaceport and Range Technologies; Future Vehicles; Safety and Health First; Environmental Stewardship; Partnerships; Outreach to the World; Education; KSC Business Report; Economic Impact; Workforce Diversity; Procurement Report; and Financial Statement. The John F. Kennedy Space Center KSC originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center located on Merritt Island Florida is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's NASA ten field centers. Since December 1968 KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. Launch operations for the Apollo Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station CCSFS. The management of the two entities work very closely together share resources and operate facilities on each other's property. Though the first Apollo flights and all Project Mercury and Project Gemini flights took off from the then-Cape Canaveral Air Force Station the launches were managed by KSC and its previous organization the Launch Operations Directorate. Starting with the fourth Gemini mission the NASA launch control center in Florida Mercury Control Center later the Launch Control Center began handing off control of the vehicle to the Mission Control Center in Houston shortly after liftoff; in prior missions it held control throughout the entire mission. Additionally the center manages launch of robotic and commercial crew missions and researches food production and in-situ resource utilization for off-Earth exploration. Since 2010 the center has worked to become a multi-user spaceport through industry partnerships even adding a new launch pad LC-39C in 2015. There are about 700 facilities and buildings grouped throughout the center's 144000 acres. Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525-foot tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets the Launch Control Center which conducts space launches at KSC the Operations and Checkout Building which houses the astronauts dormitories and suit-up area a Space Station factory and a 3-mile long Shuttle Landing Facility. There is also a Visitor Complex on site that is open to the public. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center paperback
2013292679Verlag Julius Klinkhardt Bad Heilbrunn 2013. Softcover Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn, paperback
201376281National Nuclear Security Administration 2013. Presumed First thus. CD-RW. Very good. This has one file with 27 powerpoint items on it. In Russian: These appear to include presentations by Shubin Loparev Zheleznov McDowell Wallace Warner Lehman Hecker Voloshin Reis Zucca Sandoval Petrov Felske Hawkins and Ponomarev plus panel related material and the JVE coin. Among the topics covered include Trust but Verify Optimizing Rosatom JVE Results Seismic Hydrodynamic Monitoring Geophysics Geology Technical Elements Next Steps and Future Cooperation. The United States part of the Joint Verification Experiment carried out in 1988 as the Kearsarge event in Operation Touchstone. Twenty-five years later before tensions increased between Russia and the United States a joint commemoration of the event was held at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site formerly the Nevada Test Site. JVE provided the first opportunity for scientists from US and Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories to meet and work cooperatively. At the Nevada Test Site and at the follow-on experiment at the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site they developed confidence-building steps that made possible the ratification of the TTBT in 1990. Both Russians and Americans agree that cooperation between US and Soviet nuclear weapons scientists began with the JVE and the follow-on discussions on the TTBT verification mechanisms during the Geneva negotiations. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
201376280National Nuclear Security Administration 2013. Presumed First thus. CD-RW. Very good. This has one file with 27 powerpoint items on it. These include presentations by Shubin Loparev Zheleznov McDowell Wallace Warner Lehman Hecker Voloshin Reis Zucca Sandoval Petrov Felske Hawkins and Ponomarev plus panel related material and the JVE coin. Among the topics covered include Trust but Verify Optimizing Rosatom JVE Results Seismic Hydrodynamic Monitoring Geophysics Geology Technical Elements Next Steps and Future Cooperation. The United States part of the Joint Verification Experiment carried out in 1988 as the Kearsarge event in Operation Touchstone. Twenty-five years later before tensions increased between Russia and the United States a joint commemoration of the event was held at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site formerly the Nevada Test Site. JVE provided the first opportunity for scientists from US and Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories to meet and work cooperatively. At the Nevada Test Site and at the follow-on experiment at the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site they developed confidence-building steps that made possible the ratification of the TTBT in 1990. Both Russians and Americans agree that cooperation between US and Soviet nuclear weapons scientists began with the JVE and the follow-on discussions on the TTBT verification mechanisms during the Geneva negotiations. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
201376282Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies Office of Public Affairs 2013. Presumed First thus. DVD-RW. Very good. Set of 6 DVDs. Volume 1 Welcome Ponomarev Paul Robinson Soloshin and Allen; Volume 2 Historic Panel: Aquilina Shubin Wilkes Hawkins; Volume 3 Historic Panel: Dunlop Turnbull Petrov Sandoval Zucca; Volume 4 Future Panel Browne Warner Wallace McDowell Kostyukov Aheleznov Loparev; Volume 5 Shubin and Future Recommendations PanelKickuck Hecker Lehman Hunter; and Volume 6 Voloshin Vic Reis Next Steps Panel: Cook Harrington Gottemoeller Kamenskikh and Document Signing and Conference Close. The United States part of the Joint Verification Experiment carried out in 1988 as the Kearsarge event in Operation Touchstone. Twenty-five years later a joint commemoration of the event was held at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site formerly the Nevada Test Site. The objective of the JVE was to calibrate the seismic yield estimation capability of underground nuclear explosions conducted in both countries. It involved the unprecedented US yield measurement of a Soviet nuclear explosion at its then nuclear test site in Kazakhstan and the reciprocal Soviet yield measurement of a US nuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site JVE provided the first opportunity for scientists from US and Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories to meet and work cooperatively. At the Nevada Test Site and at the follow-on experiment at the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site they developed confidence-building steps that made possible the ratification of the TTBT in 1990. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies, Office of Public Affairs unknown
201186129Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2011. Xerox-style reproduction. Presumed to be one of only a few copies made for media representatives. Stapled at upper left corner. Very good. 25 1 pages. Illustrations. Contents include Media Services Information; Quick Facts; Jupiter at a Glance; Why Juno; Mission Overview; Mission Phases; Spacecraft; Science Overview; Missions to Jupiter; and Program/Project Management. Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5 2011 UTC as part of the New Frontiers program. Juno entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5 2016 UTC to begin a scientific investigation of the planet. After completing its mission Juno will be intentionally deorbited into Jupiter's atmosphere. Juno's mission is to measure Jupiter's composition gravitational field magnetic field and polar magnetosphere. It will also search for clues about how the planet formed including whether it has a rocky core the amount of water present within the deep atmosphere mass distribution and its deep winds which can reach speeds up to 390 mph. Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter after the nuclear powered Galileo orbiter which orbited from 1995 to 2003. Juno is powered by solar panels commonly used by satellites orbiting Earth and working in the inner Solar System whereas radioisotope thermoelectric generators are commonly used for missions to the outer Solar System and beyond. For Juno however the three largest solar panel wings ever deployed on a planetary probe play an integral role in stabilizing the spacecraft as well as generating power. During the science mission infrared and microwave instruments will measure the thermal radiation emanating from deep within Jupiter's atmosphere. These observations will complement previous studies of its composition by assessing the abundance and distribution of water and therefore oxygen. This data will provide insight into Jupiter's origins. Juno will also investigate the convection that drives natural circulation patterns in Jupiter's atmosphere. Other instruments aboard Juno will gather data about its gravitational field and polar magnetosphere. The Juno mission was planned to conclude in February 2018 after completing 37 orbits of Jupiter but now has been commissioned through 2025 to do a further 42 additional orbits of Jupiter as well as close flybys of Ganymede Europa and Io. The probe was then intended to be deorbited and burnt up in Jupiter's outer atmosphere to avoid any possibility of impact and biological contamination of one of its moons. The Juno spacecraft's suite of science instruments will: Determine the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen effectively measuring the abundance of water in Jupiter which will help distinguish among prevailing theories linking Jupiter's formation to the Solar System; Obtain a better estimate of Jupiter's core mass which will also help distinguish among prevailing theories linking Jupiter's formation to the Solar System; Precisely map Jupiter's gravitational field to assess the distribution of mass in Jupiter's interior including properties of its structure and dynamics; Precisely map Jupiter's magnetic field to assess the origin and structure of the field and the depth at which the planet's magnetic field is created. This experiment will also help scientists understand the fundamental physics of dynamo theory; Map the variation in atmospheric composition temperature structure cloud opacity and dynamics to pressures far greater than 100 bar 10 MPa; 1500 psi at all latitudes; Characterize and explore the three-dimensional structure of Jupiter's polar magnetosphere and auroras; and Measure the orbital frame-dragging known also as Lense-Thirring precession caused by the angular momentum of Jupiter and possibly a new test of general relativity effects connected with the Jovian rotation. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
20182-1730998895Independently published 2018. Paperback. New. 418 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.95 inches. Independently published paperback
