Something New under the Sun. Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
Buy a book... In Association with Amazon.co.uk
Author(s): H. Gavaghan
Publisher: Copernicus
ISBN: 0 387 94914 3
Format: hardback
300pp
Price: £15.00
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This history of satellites covers their three main areas of development: navigational satellites, communications, and weather observation and forecasting. It tells the story, starting with the Russian-US rivalry over the launch of Sputnik in 1957 in terms both of scientific achievement and the politics involved. The book combines a large range of documentation with a very readable story about the satellites and the people involved.