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1Weapon — For other uses, see Weapon (disambiguation). See military technology and equipment for a comprehensive list of weapons and doctrines. Warfare Military history Eras …
2Anti-satellite weapon — Anti satellite weapons (ASATs) are space weapons designed to destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Currently, only the USA, the former USSR and the People s Republic of China are known to have developed these weapons,with India… …
3Space weapon — LGM 118A Peacekeeper MIRVs re entering Earth s atmosphere. Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (i.e. anti satellite weapons), attack targets on the earth from space or… …
4Red Tornado — Superherobox| caption=Promotional art for Justice League Of America #22. Art by Ed Benes. character name=Red Tornado alter ego=Ulthoon publisher=DC Comics debut=as Red Tornado: Justice League of America #64 (August 1968) as Ulthoon: Mystery in… …
5A Darkling Plain — infobox Book | name = A Darkling Plain title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Philip Reeve cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = Mortal Engines Quartet genre = Steampunk, Science… …
6deorbit — verb a) To cause to leave orbit. The principal improvements in the systems are the ability to return film canisters without deorbiting the spacecraft, and the extension of orbital ... b) Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite, to leave orbit …
7Stars and planetary systems in fiction — The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in much science fiction. Contents 1 Overview 1.1 The brightest stars …
8Space debris — populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Note the two primary debris fields, the ring of objects in GEO, and the cloud of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) …
9space exploration — Investigation of the universe beyond Earth s atmosphere by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft. Study of the use of rockets for spaceflight began early in the 20th century. Germany s research on rocket propulsion in the 1930s led to… …
10Satellite — This article is about artificial satellites. For natural satellites, also known as moons, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). An animation depicting the orbits of GPS satellites in medium Earth orbit …
