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21logistics — /loh jis tiks, leuh /, n. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) 1. the branch of military science and operations dealing with the procurement, supply, and maintenance of equipment, with the movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel, with the …
22N1 (rocket) — This article is about the Soviet rocket. For the Japanese rocket, see N I rocket N1 N1 L3 rocket on the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome Function Manned lunar carrier rocket Manufacturer OKB 1 Country of origin …
23Nuclear thermal rocket — Sketch of nuclear thermal rocket …
24Solar sail — Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10 5 Pa at Earth s distance… …
25STS-50 — Infobox Space mission mission name = STS 50 insignia = STS 50 patch.svg shuttle = Columbia launch pad = 39A launch = June 25, 1992, 12:12:23 p.m. EDT landing = July 9, 1992, 7:42:27 a.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Runway 33 duration = 13 days, 19 …
26Scramjet — Part of a series on Aircraft propulsion Shaft engines (to drive pr …
27Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …
28Integrated Guided Missile Development Program — An Agni II during the Republic Day Parade in 2004 The Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) was an Indian Ministry of Defence program between the early 1980s and 2007 for the development of a comprehensive range of missiles,… …
29Astrionics — is the science and technology of the development and application of electronic systems, sub systems, and components used in spacecraft. The electronic systems on board a spacecraft include attitude determination and control, communications,… …
30Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
