DIY Instruments for Amateur Space Sandy Antunes

Name: DIY Instruments for Amateur Space By Sandy Antunes
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DIY Instruments for Amateur Space by Sandy Antunes

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What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and what types of sensors you can buy or build. We cover the 5 essential design limits as well: power, bandwidth, resolution, computing... and legal limitations. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space Summary

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once it Achieves Orbit by Sandy Antunes

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and what types of sensors you can buy or build. We cover the 5 essential design limits as well: power, bandwidth, resolution, computing...and legal limitations. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.

About Sandy Antunes

Alexander Sandy Antunes (born 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Maryland-area astronomer, author, and role playing game designer. He graduated from Boston University in 1989 with a dual major in astronomy and physics, received a Masters in astronomy from Penn State in 1992, and received his PhD in computational astrophysics from George Mason University in 2005. He was the Maryland Science Center Science Person of the Month for May 2007.

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GOR006778443

ISBN 13

9781449310646

ISBN 10

1449310648

Title

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once it Achieves Orbit by Sandy Antunes

Author

Sandy Antunes

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

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O'Reilly Media

Year published

20130423

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