TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohan Sundara Rajan
TI  - SPACE TODAY
T2  - Popular science
SN  - 9788123752051
U1  - 520.954 
PY  - 2014////01/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - NBT
KW  - Remote sensing
KW  - India
KW  - Astronautics
KW  - Space sciences
KW  - Astronomical sciences -- India -- History
N1  - Contents

Part 1 : The Shape of the Earth

1.Leaps of Imagination
2.The Equatorial Bulge

Part II : Orbits

3.The Sunsynchronous Orbit
4.The Geosynchronous Orbit

Part III : Rockets

5.The Pull of Gravity
6.Indian Rockets
7.Reaching the Polar Orbit
8.GSLV : A World-Class Rocket
9.The Cryogenic Challenge
10.India : A Missile Power
11.Ariane and other Rockets
12.The Scramjet and a Slow Giant

Part IV : Services from the INSAT System

13.Domestic Links
14.The Challenge of Making InSATs
15.The Ever-alert Master Control
16.Edusat and Nanosat

Part V : Global Links

17.INTELSAT and Global Links
18.In Touch with Ships
19.The World at Your Fingertips
20.Locating Anyone, Anywhere
21.A Spy in the Sky

Part Vi : Spotlight on the Earth

22.Windows and Sensors
23.Indian Remote Sensing Satellites
24.The World in True Colours
25.The Blue Jewel
26.A Tsunami Watch
27.Weather Monitoring since Aristotle
28.The Weather from INSAT

Part VII: Wonders of Microgravity

29.Life in Orbital Stations
30.Where Apples Float
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