The Resource "Read you loud and clear!" : the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network, by Sunny Tsiao, (electronic resource)
"Read you loud and clear!" : the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network, by Sunny Tsiao, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- From the Dust Jacket: Regardless of how sophisticated it may be, no spacecraft is of any value unless it can be tracked accurately to determine where it is and how it is performing. At the height of the space race, 6,000 men and women operated NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network at some two dozen locations across five continents. This network, known as the STDN, began its operation by tracking Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite that was launched into space by the former Soviet Union. Over the next 40 years, the network was destined to play a crucial role on every near-Earth space mission that NASA flew. Whether it was receiving the first television images from space, tracking Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, or data acquiring for Earth science, the STDN was that intricate network behind the scenes making the missions possible. Some called it the "Invisible Network," a hallmark of which was that no NASA mission has ever been compromised due to a network failure. Read You Loud and Clear! is a historical account of the STDN, starting with its formation in the late 1950s to what it is today in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It traces the roots of the tracking network from its beginnings at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) space-based constellation of today. The story spans the early days of satellite tracking using the Minitrack Network, through the expansion of the Satellite Tracking And Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and finally, to the Space and Ground Networks of today. Written from a nontechnical perspective, the author has translated a highly technical subject into historical accounts told within the framework of the U.S. space program. These accounts tell how international goodwill and foreign cooperation were crucial to the operation of the network and why the space agency chose to build the STDN the way it did. More than anything else, the story of NASA's STDN is about the "unsung heroes of the space program."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (527 unnumbered pages)
- Note
- Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 2, 2010)
- Contents
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- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Invisible network
- 1: Early years
- 2: Evolution of a network
- 3: Mercury Space Flight network
- 4: Preparing for the moon
- 5: Apollo years
- 6: Era of change
- 7: Network in space
- 8: New landscape
- 9: Legacy
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1: Acronyms, abbreviations, glossary
- Appendix 2: Maps
- Appendix 3: Radio frequency chart
- Appendix 4: Honeysuckle station log for Apollo 11
- Index
- NASA history series
- Label
- "Read you loud and clear!" : the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network
- Title
- "Read you loud and clear!"
- Title remainder
- the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network
- Statement of responsibility
- by Sunny Tsiao
- Title variation
- Story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the Dust Jacket: Regardless of how sophisticated it may be, no spacecraft is of any value unless it can be tracked accurately to determine where it is and how it is performing. At the height of the space race, 6,000 men and women operated NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network at some two dozen locations across five continents. This network, known as the STDN, began its operation by tracking Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite that was launched into space by the former Soviet Union. Over the next 40 years, the network was destined to play a crucial role on every near-Earth space mission that NASA flew. Whether it was receiving the first television images from space, tracking Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, or data acquiring for Earth science, the STDN was that intricate network behind the scenes making the missions possible. Some called it the "Invisible Network," a hallmark of which was that no NASA mission has ever been compromised due to a network failure. Read You Loud and Clear! is a historical account of the STDN, starting with its formation in the late 1950s to what it is today in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It traces the roots of the tracking network from its beginnings at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) space-based constellation of today. The story spans the early days of satellite tracking using the Minitrack Network, through the expansion of the Satellite Tracking And Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and finally, to the Space and Ground Networks of today. Written from a nontechnical perspective, the author has translated a highly technical subject into historical accounts told within the framework of the U.S. space program. These accounts tell how international goodwill and foreign cooperation were crucial to the operation of the network and why the space agency chose to build the STDN the way it did. More than anything else, the story of NASA's STDN is about the "unsung heroes of the space program."
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- 1963-
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- Tsiao, Sunny
- Government publication
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- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
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- non fiction
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- dictionaries
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- NASA SP
- Series volume
- 2007-4232 [i.e. 2007-4233]
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- United States
- Project Apollo (U.S.)
- Ground support systems (Astronautics)
- Space vehicles
- Label
- "Read you loud and clear!" : the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network, by Sunny Tsiao, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 2, 2010)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-401) and index
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- online resource
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- mixed
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- Contents
- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Invisible network -- 1: Early years -- 2: Evolution of a network -- 3: Mercury Space Flight network -- 4: Preparing for the moon -- 5: Apollo years -- 6: Era of change -- 7: Network in space -- 8: New landscape -- 9: Legacy -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Acronyms, abbreviations, glossary -- Appendix 2: Maps -- Appendix 3: Radio frequency chart -- Appendix 4: Honeysuckle station log for Apollo 11 -- Index -- NASA history series
- Control code
- 535873478
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (527 unnumbered pages)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (GPO)99292154
- Label
- "Read you loud and clear!" : the story of NASA's spaceflight tracking and data network, by Sunny Tsiao, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 2, 2010)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-401) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Invisible network -- 1: Early years -- 2: Evolution of a network -- 3: Mercury Space Flight network -- 4: Preparing for the moon -- 5: Apollo years -- 6: Era of change -- 7: Network in space -- 8: New landscape -- 9: Legacy -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Acronyms, abbreviations, glossary -- Appendix 2: Maps -- Appendix 3: Radio frequency chart -- Appendix 4: Honeysuckle station log for Apollo 11 -- Index -- NASA history series
- Control code
- 535873478
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (527 unnumbered pages)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (GPO)99292154
Subject
- Government publications -- United States
- Ground support systems (Astronautics) -- History
- History
- Project Apollo (U.S.) -- History
- Space vehicles -- Tracking | History
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History
- Electronic government information -- United States
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