Chasing Black Holes: An Insider's View of a Space Astronomy Mission (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780996693950)

Space missions in the movies can seem elegant and straight-forward. Most are anything but! This book takes a personal journey into the labyrinth that a space-mission concept must travel through before a mission blasts off into deep space. Here is the story of the Rossi X ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an Earth-orbiting NASA observatory meant to study X-ray emitting celestial objects. The technical and bureaucratic hurdles facing this mission are described with humor and wry personal anecdotes. And the pay-off? Sixteen years of successful observations resulting in critical new insight into black holes and neutron stars.

Author: Hale Bradt
ISBN-10: 0996693955
ISBN-13: 9780996693950
Publisher: Van Dorn Books
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d