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Automated low-altitude air delivery : towards autonomous cargo transportation with drones
\"This book investigates Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with a payload capacity of one metric ton for transportation. The authors provide a large variety of perspectivesfrom economics to technical realization. With the focus on such heavy-lift cargo UAS, the authors consider recently established methods for approval and certification, which they expect to be disruptive for unmanned aviation. In particular, the Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) and its impact on the presented technological solutions and operational concepts are studied. Starting with the assumption of an operation over sparsely populated areas and below common air traffic, diverse measures to further reduce operational risks are proposed. Operational concepts derived from logistics use-cases set the context for an in-depth analysis including aircraft and system design, safe autonomy as well as airspace integration and datalinks. Results from simulations and technology demonstrations are presented as a proof of concept for solutions proposed in this book.\"-- Back cover.
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Interstellar travel
\"Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations is a comprehensive, technical look at the necessary considerations for interstellar travel addressed by leading experts in the field, from scientists studying possible destinations (exoplanets) and the vast distances between, to those concerned with building institutions and capabilities in society that could sustain such endeavors. In addition to the technical, medical, and anthropological aspects of deep space travel, the ethics and morality of spreading Earth-based life to other worlds is also examined. In the first book of a three-book compilation, Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations offers in-depth, up-to-date and realistic technical and scientific considerations in the pursuit of interstellar travel and is an integral reference for scientists, engineers, researchers and academics working on, or interested in, space development and space technologies. With a renewed interest in space exploration and development evidenced by the rise of the commercial space sector and various governments now planning to send humans back to the moon and to Mars, so also is interest in taking the next steps beyond the Solar System and to the ultimate destination--planets circling other stars.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Once upon a time I lived on Mars : space, exploration and life on earth
When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like? In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA's first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanity's broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life, of the standard, able-bodied astronaut and Greene's brother's disability, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple, of departure and return. By asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe, Greene has written a remarkable, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now, as a pre-Mars species, poised on the edge, readying for launch.
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The great Chinese art heist : imperialism, organized crime, and the hidden story of China's stolen artistic treasures
\"For the past decade, the art world has been rocked by a series of very costly and elaborately planned heists at major museums. It all began the night of August 6, 2010, at the Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden--the official residence of the Swedish royal family. Heists in France, Great Britain, and throughout Europe soon followed. In Norway, masked men rappelled down from a glass ceiling into the prestigious Kode Museum, just three blocks from police headquarters. In all of these break-ins, the thieves made away with ancient Chinese artifacts. These priceless antiquities already had a dark backstory. They were first looted from the spectacular Old Summer Palace outside of Beijing nearly two centuries ago. In 'The great Chinese art heist,' bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo takes us back to the Second Opium War and the sacking of the Old Summer Palace by French and British troops in 1860. He then expertly connects that seismic event in Chinese history to the current wave of heists that seem right out of a 'Mission: Impossible' movie\"--Inside jacket flap.
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