low earth orbit
description: orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers
162 results
Quantum Computing for Everyone
by Chris Bernhardt · 19 Mar 2019 · 211pp · 57,618 words
over substantial distances. As I write this, it has been announced that a Chinese team has teleported a qubit from Earth to a satellite in low Earth orbit. These experiments are often mentioned on news broadcasts, mainly because of the word “teleportation,” which conjures up images of Star Trek. Unfortunately, quantum teleportation is
Perfection
by Vincenzo Latronico · 18 Mar 2025 · 88pp · 29,578 words
. The most striking dishes would be photographed, tagged, and shared. Those images would then travel to the other end of the planet, bouncing along in low Earth orbit or speeding across ocean ridges, reaching the screens of their peers in Lyon, Helsinki, and Valencia, who would look at them for a moment, entranced
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
by Michael Harris · 6 Aug 2014 · 259pp · 73,193 words
navigation satellite systems will be inoperable; cellular and emergency communication networks may fail; the earth’s atmosphere will expand, creating a drag on satellites in low earth orbit; satellite communication and high-frequency communication (used by long-distance aircraft) will probably not work for days. I daydream about a latter-day Carrington Event
When Things Start to Think
by Neil A. Gershenfeld · 15 Feb 1999 · 238pp · 46 words
official Internet access, packets were already being sent through a satellite link that had been set up for high-energy physics experiments. Now constellations of low-earth-orbit satellites are being launched that will bring the convenience of a cell-phone network everywhere on the globe. Motorola's Iridium system comprises 100 + WHEN
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
128 miles. NASA is presently developing a rocket that will be more than thirty stories high and will be able to lift 130 tons into low earth orbit. The British invention of radar, and the U.S. development of it, constituted a great leap in technology that fundamentally changed warfare as well as
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words
about half the trades on financial markets now computerised HFT, this latest development conjures up the image of an algorithmic web of signals bouncing off low-earth orbit satellites, all for the financial markets to make more money faster off their clients. There is evidence that the so-called flash crash of 6
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World
by Anna Crowley Redding · 1 Jul 2019 · 190pp · 46,977 words
. The first step is providing satellite-based Internet for all of Earth. The satellites, some four thousand of them, would beam down broadband Internet from low Earth orbit. The price tag for a space-based Internet? $10 billion. And the number of people on the planet who would have improved access or their
Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
by Ronald J. Deibert · 13 May 2013 · 317pp · 98,745 words
specifically designed splitters. • • • Like undersea cables, satellites illustrate the fragile nature of cyberspace. In 2009, a defunct and wayward Russian satellite collided with an Iridium low Earth orbit satellite at a speed of over 40,000 kilometres per hour. The collision caused a massive cloud of space debris that still presents a major
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov · 1 May 2017 · 331pp · 104,366 words
was out. It was rapid chess, yes, but a serious event and the machine had played quite well in parts. Still no moon landing, but low Earth orbit had been achieved. Both games with Genius reflected the unique nature of computer chess, especially the second game. Chess players have the most trouble visualizing
Track Changes
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum · 1 May 2016 · 519pp · 142,646 words
? What force did gravity exert on an object of such-and-such a density and mass? What was a rocket’s trajectory for achieving a low-Earth orbit? All of these details mattered, and many of his readers could tell the difference between the real thing and hokum. Pournelle thus immediately grasped the
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 28 Sep 2014 · 243pp · 65,374 words
How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books)
by Stephen Petranek · 6 Jul 2015 · 70pp · 22,172 words
Clock of the Long Now
by Stewart Brand · 1 Jan 1999 · 194pp · 49,310 words
The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture From a Journey of 71 Million Miles
by Astronaut Ron Garan and Muhammad Yunus · 2 Feb 2015
The Signal: Watch Out for the Darkness
by Nick Cook · 11 Jul 2018 · 112pp · 28,314 words
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Steve Coll · 29 Mar 2009 · 769pp · 224,916 words
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
by Michael Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward · 23 Jan 2018 · 424pp · 114,094 words
The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor
by Andy Kessler · 12 Oct 2009 · 361pp · 86,921 words
How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Tim Draper · 18 Dec 2017 · 302pp · 95,965 words
Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer
by Jerry Lynn Ross and John Norberg · 31 Jan 2013 · 259pp · 94,135 words
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1988
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly · 11 Aug 2016 · 425pp · 116,409 words
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian · 28 Mar 2022 · 553pp · 153,028 words
AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together
by Nick Polson and James Scott · 14 May 2018 · 301pp · 85,126 words
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by Ozan Varol · 13 Apr 2020 · 389pp · 112,319 words
American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness
by Dan Dimicco · 3 Mar 2015 · 219pp · 61,720 words
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
by Carl Zimmer · 9 Mar 2021 · 392pp · 109,945 words
Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
by Brett King · 5 May 2016 · 385pp · 111,113 words
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
by Mike Massimino · 3 Oct 2016 · 286pp · 101,129 words
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
by Jeffrey Kluger · 11 Nov 2025 · 305pp · 98,394 words
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson · 11 Sep 2023 · 562pp · 201,502 words
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
by Eric Berger · 23 Sep 2024 · 375pp · 113,230 words
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
by Tim Marshall · 14 Oct 2021 · 383pp · 105,387 words
Velocity Weapon
by Megan E. O'Keefe · 10 Jun 2019 · 602pp · 164,940 words
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
by Nicholas Schmidle · 3 May 2021 · 342pp · 101,370 words
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach · 1 Jan 2010 · 300pp · 87,725 words
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir · 15 May 2021 · 576pp · 150,183 words
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan · 8 Sep 1997 · 356pp · 102,224 words
The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches
by Marshall Brain · 6 Apr 2015 · 215pp · 56,215 words
Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact
by Steven Kotler · 11 May 2015 · 294pp · 80,084 words
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith · 3 Apr 2006 · 409pp · 138,088 words
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by Nathalia Holt · 4 Apr 2016 · 288pp · 92,175 words
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest · 17 Oct 2014 · 292pp · 85,151 words
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman · 30 Jul 2008 · 278pp · 88,711 words
Against All Enemies
by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep · 13 Jun 2011 · 640pp · 177,786 words
Debt of Honor
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1994
Engineering Infinity
by Jonathan Strahan · 28 Dec 2010 · 360pp · 101,636 words
Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1986
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age
by Robert Stone and Alan Andres · 3 Jun 2019
Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight
by Margaret Lazarus Dean · 18 May 2015 · 338pp · 112,127 words
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
by David Whitehouse · 7 Mar 2019 · 308pp · 87,238 words
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything
by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith · 16 Oct 2017 · 398pp · 105,032 words
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance · 18 May 2015 · 370pp · 129,096 words
Artemis
by Andy Weir · 14 Nov 2017 · 343pp · 89,057 words
The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration
by Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees · 18 Apr 2022 · 192pp · 63,813 words
Upgrade
by Blake Crouch · 6 Jul 2022 · 396pp · 96,049 words
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by Eric Berger · 2 Mar 2021 · 304pp · 89,879 words
The Crux
by Richard Rumelt · 27 Apr 2022 · 363pp · 109,834 words
The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon
by James Schefter · 2 Jan 2000 · 366pp · 119,981 words
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush · 11 Sep 2023 · 375pp · 127,360 words
The Last Astronaut
by David Wellington · 22 Jul 2019 · 460pp · 130,621 words
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
by Alan Boss · 3 Feb 2009 · 221pp · 61,146 words
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction
by Adrian Hon · 5 Oct 2020 · 340pp · 101,675 words
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
by Earl Swift · 5 Jul 2021 · 410pp · 120,234 words
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor
by Tony Bleetman · 2 Oct 2019 · 242pp · 81,001 words
Come Fly With Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program
by Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas and Don Thomas · 1 Feb 2019 · 609pp · 159,043 words
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
by P. W. Singer and August Cole · 28 Jun 2015 · 537pp · 149,628 words
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992
by Rick Houston and J. Milt Heflin · 27 Sep 2015 · 472pp · 141,591 words
The Mission: A True Story
by David W. Brown · 26 Jan 2021
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
by David A. Mindell · 12 Oct 2015 · 265pp · 74,807 words
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World
by Greg Milner · 4 May 2016 · 385pp · 103,561 words
Amazing Stories of the Space Age
by Rod Pyle · 21 Dec 2016
4th Rock From the Sun: The Story of Mars
by Nicky Jenner · 5 Apr 2017 · 294pp · 87,986 words
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
by Hamish McKenzie · 30 Sep 2017 · 307pp · 90,634 words
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words
Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight
by Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker · 1 Jun 2011 · 376pp · 110,796 words
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport · 20 Mar 2018 · 390pp · 108,171 words
Moon Rush: The New Space Race
by Leonard David · 6 May 2019
Nexus
by Ramez Naam · 16 Dec 2012 · 502pp · 124,794 words
Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
by Jeremy Bailenson · 30 Jan 2018 · 302pp · 90,215 words
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake · 11 May 2020
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
by Scott Kelly and Margaret Lazarus Dean · 14 Aug 2017 · 411pp · 140,110 words
The Dream of the Iron Dragon
by Robert Kroese · 6 Dec 2017 · 459pp · 128,458 words
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by Julian Guthrie · 19 Sep 2016
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
by Donald MacKenzie · 24 May 2021 · 400pp · 121,988 words
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
by Sarah Stewart Johnson · 6 Jul 2020 · 400pp · 99,489 words
Eon
by Greg Bear · 2 Jan 1985 · 641pp · 153,921 words
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
by Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton and Neil Armstrong · 1 Jan 1994 · 469pp · 124,784 words
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words
Nuclear War: A Scenario
by Annie Jacobsen · 25 Mar 2024 · 444pp · 105,807 words
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
by Rowland White and Richard Truly · 18 Apr 2016 · 570pp · 151,609 words
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race
by Christian Davenport · 6 Sep 2025 · 441pp · 127,950 words
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper · 15 Jan 2020 · 285pp · 86,858 words
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 27 Feb 2012 · 476pp · 118,381 words
The Deepest Map
by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
by Ashlee Vance · 8 May 2023 · 558pp · 175,965 words
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
Notes From an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
by Mark O'Connell · 13 Apr 2020 · 213pp · 70,742 words
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini · 14 Sep 2020 · 1,171pp · 309,640 words
Beyond: Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey · 12 Apr 2015 · 370pp · 97,138 words
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
by Lee Billings · 2 Oct 2013 · 326pp · 97,089 words
Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
by Tim Fernholz · 20 Mar 2018 · 328pp · 96,141 words
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson · 19 May 2015 · 945pp · 292,893 words
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words
Interplanetary Robots
by Rod Pyle
Space 2.0
by Rod Pyle · 2 Jan 2019 · 352pp · 87,930 words
Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy
by John Lewis · 22 Jul 2014 · 183pp · 54,731 words
Red Moon
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 22 Oct 2018 · 492pp · 141,544 words
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson · 2 May 2000 · 611pp · 186,716 words
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
by Michael Benson · 2 Apr 2018 · 614pp · 174,633 words
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
by Vernor Vinge · 30 Sep 2001 · 659pp · 203,574 words
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz · 7 Jan 2000 · 549pp · 162,164 words
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by Robert Kurson · 2 Apr 2018 · 361pp · 110,905 words
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
by Jeffrey Kluger · 15 May 2017 · 396pp · 112,354 words
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration
by Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David · 1 Apr 2013 · 183pp · 51,514 words
Planet Ponzi
by Mitch Feierstein · 2 Feb 2012 · 393pp · 115,263 words
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani · 10 Jun 2019 · 280pp · 74,559 words
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
by Temi Oh · 15 Mar 2019 · 486pp · 138,878 words
Darwin Among the Machines
by George Dyson · 28 Mar 2012 · 463pp · 118,936 words
The Moon: A History for the Future
by Oliver Morton · 1 May 2019 · 319pp · 100,984 words
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch
by Lewis Dartnell · 15 Apr 2014 · 398pp · 100,679 words
Falling to Earth
by Al Worden · 26 Jul 2011 · 357pp · 121,119 words
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins · 2 Aug 2021 · 430pp · 135,418 words
Apollo 13
by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger · 14 Jun 2000 · 538pp · 153,734 words
The Last Dance
by Martin L. Shoemaker · 2 Nov 2019 · 485pp · 149,337 words
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 10 Sep 2018 · 745pp · 207,187 words
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
by James Donovan · 12 Mar 2019
Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure
by Dan Parry · 22 Jun 2009 · 370pp · 100,856 words
Into the Raging Sea
by Rachel Slade · 4 Apr 2018 · 390pp · 109,438 words
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith · 6 Nov 2023 · 490pp · 132,502 words
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
by Natalie Starkey · 8 Mar 2018 · 284pp · 89,477 words
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by Adam Higginbotham · 14 May 2024 · 523pp · 204,889 words
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure · 18 May 2020 · 459pp · 138,689 words
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul · 29 Mar 2021 · 415pp · 136,343 words
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
by Steven Kotler · 4 Mar 2014 · 330pp · 88,445 words
Smart Grid Standards
by Takuro Sato · 17 Nov 2015
Apollo
by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox · 1 Jan 1989 · 619pp · 197,256 words
After Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
by John M. Logsdon · 5 Mar 2015
The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!
by Joseph N. Pelton · 5 Nov 2016 · 321pp · 89,109 words
Building Habitats on the Moon: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
by Haym Benaroya · 12 Jan 2018 · 571pp · 124,448 words
From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time
by Sean M. Carroll · 15 Jan 2010 · 634pp · 185,116 words
The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
by Richard Jurek · 2 Dec 2019 · 431pp · 118,074 words
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
by Emma Chapman · 23 Feb 2021 · 265pp · 79,944 words
Case for Mars
by Robert Zubrin · 27 Jun 2011 · 437pp · 126,860 words
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
by Robert Zubrin · 30 Apr 2019 · 452pp · 126,310 words
Voyage
by Stephen Baxter · 23 May 2011
The Disappearing Act
by Florence de Changy · 24 Dec 2020
Southwest USA Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
Effendi
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 1 Jan 2002 · 442pp · 115,860 words
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
by John S. Burnett · 1 Jan 2002 · 399pp · 120,226 words
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes · 24 Apr 2013 · 432pp · 128,944 words
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte · 1 Jan 2005 · 308pp · 98,729 words
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
by Robert Bryce · 16 Mar 2011 · 415pp · 103,231 words