Sky Alert! When Satellites Fail /

• Main Author: Johnson, Les. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Remote sensing.; Astronomy.; Astronautics.; Telecommunication.; Economics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Security Science and Technology.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Economics general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1830-6

How much do we depend on space satellites? Defense, travel, agriculture, weather forecasting, mobile phones and broadband, commerce...the list seems endless. But what would our live be like if the unimaginable happened and, by accident or design, those space assets disappeared? Sky Alert! explores w...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part I: How we might lose our Satellites
• Orbital Debris
• War.-Part II: If we were to lose our satellites
• The Global Positioning System (Military Uses)
• Economic Fallout from the Losing the Global Positioning System
• GPS and the Average Person
• Spy Satellites and Military Reconnaissance
• Communications
• Weather Forecasting
• Remote Sensing - Resource Monitoring and Locating
• Remote Sensing - Environmental Monitoring and Science
• Part III: What Can We Do?
• Reduce the Growth of Orbital Debris.