Claudio Maccone: Deep Space Flight and Communications 
Claudio Maccone: Deep Space Flight and Communications
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11/25/2009



Deep Space Flight and Communications: SETI, KLT and Astronautics in a 2009 Book



Claudio Maccone, Co-Vice Chair of the SETI Permanent Study Group, International Academy of Astronautics


Dr. Maccone's new technical book about SETI, KLT and space missions to the Sun gravity focus will be presented in this talk. This 400-page book is entitled "Deep Space Flight and Communications", costs (unfortunately) over $100, and is divided into two parts: (1) The first 200 pages describe the astrophysics of light-bending caused by the mass of the Sun. Since the minimal focal distance turns out to lie in between 550 and 1000 AU, any future space mission to exploit this effect must necessarily be a "deep space mission". These FOCAL space missions are studied in the book and a Phase A Proposal was submitted by Dr. Maccone to ESA back in 2000. He now argues that a similar Proposal should be submitted to NASA. (2) The second part of the book is devoted to the KLT as optimal telecommunication tool (better than the FFT). The KLT for SETI was presented by the author in various talks, but, in this book, the reader will find the relativistic KLT also. This is useful to keep the radio link between the Earth and any deep-space spacecraft, such as the FOCAL spacecrafts to 550 AU. Dr. Maccone discovered mathematically that the relativistic KLT eigenfunctions are Bessel functions of the first kind, and that the KLT eigenvalues are the zeros of such Bessel functions. All this paves the way to "Star-Trek-like" relativistic space flights of the future.



- Presentation

Course Index

  1. David Morrison: Mission to a Potentially Threatening Asteroid
  2. Laura T. Iraci: Laboratory Studies of Water Ice Cloud formation under Martian Conditions
  3. Jeffrey Van Cleve: The Race to Detect the First Earth-sized Planet
  4. Ron Greeley: Surface modifications by winds on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan
  5. JoAnne Hewett: The Hunt for Hidden Dimensions
  6. Franck Marchis: Multiple Asteroid Systems: New Techniques to Study New Worlds
  7. Interstellar and Early Solar System Organics in Samples from Comet Wild 2
  8. Ross A. Beyer: Google Earth, now with Mars!
  9. Jeffrey Scargle: Tools for Probing the Universe
  10. Richard Muller: Discovery of Strong Cycles in Fossil Diversity
  11. Rachel Mastrapa: Weathering on Icy Satellites: Probing the Near Surface Using Infrared Spectroscopy
  12. John McCarthy: Convergent evolution of our own and extra-terrestrial intelligence
  13. Jasper Halekas: The Dynamic Lunar Environment
  14. Tom Abel: First Things in the Universe
  15. Julie Chittenden: Experimental determination of the effect of salts, regolith, and wind
  16. Philip Russell: Aerosol particle roles in climate change
  17. Edwin Kite: True Polar Wander and Climate on Late Hesperian/Amazonian Mars
  18. Robert Landis: NEOs Ho!! The Asteroid Option
  19. Terry Fong: Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations
  20. Mikhail Kreslavsky: Geological record of recent climate change on Mars
  21. Amos Nur: Apocolypse: Earthquakes, Archeology and the the Wrath of God
  22. Robert Lillis: Death of the Martian Dynamo
  23. Brian Jeffs: Progress in phased array feed development for radio astronomy
  24. Ray Kurzweil: The Implications of the Law of Accelerating Returns for the Search for ETI
  25. The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3
  26. Dr. Beth Ann Hockey: How to Speak to Your Computer
  27. Janice Bishop: The Surface of Mars
  28. John Balboni: How do You Qualify Heat Shields on Earth?
  29. Kevin Zahnle: Earth After the Moon-forming Impact
  30. Dave Brain: Atmospheric Escape and Aurora on Mars
  31. Michael Carr: Mars - The Water Story and Prospects for Life
  32. Risa Wechsler: Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time
  33. Natalie Batalha: Kepler's First Peek
  34. Darlene Lim: Pavilion Lake - Diving Deep to Get Us to the Moon and Mars
  35. Paul Kalas: HST Imaging of Fomalhaut
  36. Reid Parsons: Where is Mars' Ice?
  37. Markus Aschwanden: Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Observed with STEREO
  38. Nathan Bramall: Detecting Organics Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
  39. Dr. Stefan Funk: Fermi-LAT Observing the Universe With High-Energy Gamma-Ray Eyes
  40. Special Panel: LCROSS Mission - The First Results of the Impact
  41. Elmar Fuchs: The Inner Structure of a Floating Water Bridge
  42. Ben Zuckerman: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe - Some Great Challenges for SETI
  43. David Hollenbach: Water, Molecular Oxygen and Ice in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds
  44. Linda Spilker: The Rings of Saturn as seen by Cassini CIRS
  45. Claudio Maccone: Deep Space Flight and Communications
  46. Lauren Wye: Titan's Ontario Lacus
  47. Steven S. Vogt: Finding Planets Around Nearby Stars
  48. Gerry Harp: Exploring Alternative SETI Search Algorithms with the ATA

Course Description


The colloquiums are free and open to the public, and run from noon to 1 pm on Wednesdays at the SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California.

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