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71Weather satellite — GOES 8, a United States weather satellite. The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12… …
72Soyuz 2 rocket — Infobox rocket name =Soyuz 2 (Soyuz 2.1a/2.1b/STK) caption = A MetOp spacecraft ready for the launch atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket. function =Orbital carrier rocket manufacturer =TsSKB Progress country origin =Russia cpl year = cpl = height =46.1 m… …
73Kosmos (satellite) — Kosmos (Russian: Космос, IPA: [ˈkozməs], Cosmos) is a designation given to a large number of satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia. Kosmos 1, the first spacecraft to be given a Kosmos designation, was launched on… …
74Delta rocket — Infobox Aircraft name=Delta Family caption=The Delta rocket family. type=Expendable launch system with various applications manufacturer=United Launch Alliance designer= first flight= introduced=1960 status=active primary user= produced= number… …
75Viking (satellite) — Viking was Sweden s first satellite. It was launched on an Ariane 1 rocket as a piggyback payload together with the French satellite SPOT 1, on February 22, 1986. Operations ended on May 12, 1987. Viking was used to explore plasma processes in… …
76Astronomical Netherlands Satellite — Infobox Space telescope name = Astronomical Netherlands Satellite (ANS) caption = The flight spare for the satellite organization = NISR / NASA major contractors = alt names = Astronomische Nederlandse Satelliet nssdc id = location = orbit type …
77DART (satellite) — Artistic impression of NASA s DART spacecraft (below) approaching MUBLCOM (above) while orbiting over the eastern Pacific near Central America DART, or Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology, is a NASA sponsored project. The goal was… …
78Cosmos (satellite) — For the Cosmos 1 solar sail mdash; not part of this series mdash; see Cosmos 1. Cosmos is the name of a series of satellites which were launched by the Soviet Union and are being launched now by Russia. The first of them was launched on March 16… …
79Kepler orbit — Gravitational attraction is the force that makes the Solar system stick together with the planets orbiting the Sun and the Moon orbiting the Earth. Isaac Newton formulated the physical law for this gravitational attraction which explained Kepler… …
80OFEQ (Horizon) Satellite — A long term project intended to provide Israel with an independent space satellite capability. The pace of research and development associated with OFEQ was accelerated in the early 1990s in the context of the reported refusal of the United… …
