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- The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy...17 KB (2,059 words) - 14:38, 18 June 2024
- Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 396.4 kilometres or 246.3 miles, Mimas is...29 KB (2,812 words) - 03:19, 25 August 2024
- A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant ejection of magnetic field and accompanying plasma mass from the Sun's corona into the heliosphere. CMEs...58 KB (6,836 words) - 07:44, 31 August 2024
- Libra /ˈliːbrə/ is a constellation of the zodiac and is located in the Southern celestial hemisphere. Its name is Latin for weighing scales. Its old astronomical...14 KB (1,569 words) - 17:58, 17 July 2024
- The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest...20 KB (2,068 words) - 23:50, 28 August 2024
- Lacerta is one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Its name is Latin for lizard. A small, faint constellation...8 KB (730 words) - 15:43, 14 October 2023
- In spaceflight, an orbital maneuver (otherwise known as a burn) is the use of propulsion systems to change the orbit of a spacecraft. For spacecraft far...17 KB (2,126 words) - 20:29, 22 June 2024
- RazakSAT was a Malaysian Earth observation satellite carrying a high-resolution camera. It was launched into low Earth orbit on 14 July 2009. It was placed...13 KB (1,034 words) - 15:44, 13 August 2024
- Armadillo Aerospace was an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal was to build a crewed suborbital spacecraft capable of...27 KB (2,989 words) - 16:39, 3 August 2024
- A synchronous orbit is an orbit in which an orbiting body (usually a satellite) has a period equal to the average rotational period of the body being orbited...5 KB (574 words) - 03:32, 28 May 2024
- Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) was a program to build a radiation-tolerant IP router created by Cisco Systems for satellite and related spacecraft. It...4 KB (418 words) - 03:11, 5 December 2021
- Satellite Orbiting Rocket Number 420 (Indonesian: Roket Pengorbit Satelit 420, abbreviated as RPS-420), or Pengorbitan-1, was a proposed space launch vehicle...8 KB (887 words) - 21:09, 30 July 2024
- Charles Kohlhase (born 1935) worked for forty years at NASA/JPL leading the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions. He is also an author...8 KB (632 words) - 15:11, 28 April 2023
- A hosted payload is a module attached to a commercial satellite with communications circuitry that operates independently of the main spacecraft but which...13 KB (1,490 words) - 12:40, 21 August 2024
- The InterPlanetary Network (IPN) is a group of spacecraft equipped with gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors. By timing the arrival of a burst at several spacecraft...13 KB (1,913 words) - 12:36, 12 January 2024
- Pioneer Rocketplane was an aerospace design and development company intent on developing affordable crewed space flight. The company is most famous for...5 KB (610 words) - 07:35, 9 October 2023
- Missile Row was a nickname given in the 1960s to the United States Space Force and NASA launch complexes at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)...8 KB (176 words) - 19:19, 24 February 2024
- MidSTAR, a project of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) Small Satellite Program (SSP), is a general-purpose satellite bus capable of supporting a...2 KB (214 words) - 18:34, 23 August 2023
- Space Internetworking Center (SPICE) (Greek: Κέντρο Διαστημικής Διαδικτύωσης) in Xanthi, Greece, was founded in September 2010, having acquired funding...3 KB (255 words) - 00:04, 30 June 2021