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Download or read book Scientific Unit Conversion written by Francois Cardarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in a pocket book format for ease of use, this is a truly unique and practical guide giving accurate metric equivalents and conversion factors for no fewer than 10,000 scientific units. Cardarelli has spent many years building up this complete range of US, British, conventional metric, historic systems and SI units, covering the worlds of science, technology and medicine. The charts and tables are readily referenced and coloured tabs denote the different sections while a slot-in user guide acts as a bookmark.

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Download or read book Lexique de la station spatiale written by Canada. Spatial Terminology Standardization Committee and published by Secrétariat d'État du Canada = Department of the Secretary of State of Canada. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terminology used to describe the space station and its outer space mission relates to a wide range of modern disciplines and sciences, from aerodynamics to the composition of materials, including such fields as informatics, electronics, thermodynamics, wave propagation, and medicine. This glossary contains 900 terms limited to terminology associated with the space station itself, in particular with its physical components, space laboratories, and the experiments to be conducted in them, as well as with the robot arm and its various modules and systems. The glossary does not include the terminology of satellites, facilities, systems, and military programs. Also included are the official designations of Canadian, European, and NASA experiments and programs.

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Download or read book Icarus Second Chance written by Jacques Arnould and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011: fifty years separate us from the flight of Yuri Gagarin. Fifty years of extraordinary successes, with the kind of apotheosis represented by the first man on the moon; fifty years also of bitter failures, even tragic when they involved the deaths of human beings; finally, fifty years during which space largely contributed to the scientific and technical, political and economic, cultural and social transformation of humanity. This is a critical analysis of the decisions and the actions which constituted and constitute still the field of astronautic activities, to analyse this field's strategies and choices, their consequences on the natural environment and on humans, in short to work out and apply an ethical investigation. This work is the fruit of research carried out by the French Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) over the past ten years, in collaboration with many organisations, astronautical or not: ESA, NASA and especially ESPI.

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Download or read book RADARSAT and Microwave Remote Sensing Vocabulary written by Canada. Spatial Terminology Standardization Committee and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In producing this publication, which contains about 700 terms and 350 abbreviations, the Spatial terminology standardization committee has provided translators, writers, engineers and other specialists with microwave remote sensing terminology that is both reliable and universal. This vocabulary contains terminology intended for use by specialists who write or translate documents dealing with this remote sensing satellite.