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- NGC 126 is a lenticular galaxy that was discovered on November 4, 1850, by Bindon Stoney, the very same day he discovered NGC 127 and NGC 130. Distance...2 KB (64 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- A space vehicle is the combination of a spacecraft and its launch vehicle which carries it into space. The earliest space vehicles were expendable launch...5 KB (596 words) - 21:20, 26 March 2024
- Venera 4V-2 (Russian: Венера 4В-2) was a series of two identical spacecraft sent to Venus by the Soviet Union, consisting of Venera 15 and Venera 16. Both...4 KB (518 words) - 23:00, 8 April 2023
- The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science (SAO RAS; Russian: Специальная Астрофизическая Обсерватория) is an astronomical...8 KB (1,054 words) - 05:25, 14 August 2023
- MOA-2008-BLG-310L is a 23rd magnitude star located at least 20000 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. This star has mass 0.67 solar masses...2 KB (185 words) - 16:51, 14 January 2024
- Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Беля́вский; December 7, 1883 (Julian calendar: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet/Russian...5 KB (164 words) - 21:54, 26 May 2023
- TAMA 300 is a gravitational wave detector located at the Mitaka campus of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is a project of the gravitational...2 KB (273 words) - 05:55, 28 April 2020
- The Germanium Detector Array (or GERDA) experiment was searching for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in Ge-76 at the underground Laboratori Nazionali...9 KB (1,097 words) - 19:34, 12 February 2023
- Tsikada (Russian: Цикада meaning cicada), was a Soviet satellite navigation system including ten Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. It transmits the same...1 KB (73 words) - 02:23, 30 May 2022
- A torsion-bar antenna (or TOBA) is a novel scheme for a gravitational wave detector, proposed by M. Ando, et al. in 2010. The proposed design is composed...2 KB (197 words) - 22:03, 28 October 2023
- The 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope is a Department of Defense telescope at Haleakala Observatory. The telescope is part of the Maui Space...3 KB (269 words) - 22:42, 15 January 2024
- The Materials Science Laboratory (MSL) of the European Space Agency is a payload on board the International Space Station for materials science experiments...12 KB (1,463 words) - 18:23, 27 April 2024
- TROPI, or "Analysis of a Novel Sensory Mechanism in Root Phototropism", is an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to investigate the growth...4 KB (429 words) - 12:28, 5 November 2022
- The NIXT, or Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope, was a sounding rocket payload flown in the 1990s by Professor Leon Golub of the Smithsonian Astrophysical...2 KB (269 words) - 02:42, 3 September 2023
- A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight. Lists of spacecraft List...3 KB (29 words) - 17:10, 8 January 2024
- Mary Lea Heger (July 13, 1897 – July 13, 1983, later Mary Lea Shane) was an American astronomer who made important discoveries on the interstellar medium...3 KB (289 words) - 19:39, 20 October 2022
- The Human Research Facility Holter Monitor (Holter) is a battery-powered, noninvasive electrocardiogram (ECG) device that accurately measures the heart...4 KB (464 words) - 00:05, 10 December 2021