near-earth space station

  • 1Near Earth Network — The Near Earth Network (NEN, formerly GN or Ground Network) provides orbital communications support for Near Earth orbiting customer platforms via various NASA ground stations. NASA s NEN consists of ground stations in: Merritt Island Launch… …

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  • 2International Space Station maintenance — Since construction started, the International Space Station (ISS) programme has had to deal with several maintenance issues, unexpected problems and failures[citation needed]. These incidents have affected the assembly timeline, led to periods of …

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  • 3International Space Station — Station spatiale internationale Pour les articles homonymes, voir ISS. Station spatiale internationale …

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  • 4Space 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) …

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  • 5International Space Station — ISS redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station …

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  • 6Space manufacturing — is the production of manufactured goods in an environment outside a planetary atmosphere. Typically this includes conditions of microgravity and hard vacuum.Manufacturing in space has several potential advantages over Earth based industry.# The… …

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  • 7International Space Station program — The International Space Station program is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and… …

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  • 8Space solar power — Space based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the conversion of solar energy into power, usable either in space or on earth, from a location in space, usually geosynchronous orbit (GSO). Photovoltaics (PV) would generally be utilized for energy… …

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  • 9Earth in science fiction — Earth An overwhelming majority of fiction is set on or features the Earth. However, authors of speculative fiction novels and writers and directors of science fiction film deal with Earth quite differently from authors of conventional fiction.… …

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  • 10Space tourism — is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space pioneered by Russia.As of 2008, orbital space tourism opportunities are limited and expensive, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport. The price for a flight… …

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