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Regolith (/ˈrɛɡəlɪθ/) is a blanket of unconsolidated, loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock. It includes dust, broken rocks, and...18 KB (2,118 words) - 10:38, 15 September 2024
ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite...26 KB (1,968 words) - 12:20, 31 May 2024
The Leonids (/ˈliːənɪdz/ LEE-ə-nidz) are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular...52 KB (4,141 words) - 07:16, 6 September 2024- Astrology and astronomy were archaically treated together (Latin: astrologia), but gradually distinguished through the Late Middle Ages into the Age of...24 KB (2,292 words) - 15:54, 5 September 2024
A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing...21 KB (2,478 words) - 05:22, 13 July 2024
Applications Technology Satellite 3, or ATS-3, was a long-lived American experimental geostationary weather and communications satellite, operated by NASA...9 KB (753 words) - 18:36, 14 September 2024- Astronomy Now is a monthly British magazine on astronomy and space. According to the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy Now is the "principal amateur...9 KB (1,180 words) - 03:59, 25 July 2024
- A magnetorquer or magnetic torquer (also known as a torque rod) is a satellite system for attitude control, detumbling, and stabilization built from electromagnetic...10 KB (1,198 words) - 13:19, 15 September 2024
A modular rocket is a kind of multistage rocket which has components that can interchanged for different missions. Several such rockets use similar concepts...8 KB (886 words) - 08:26, 10 July 2024- Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies is a 1987 book by Halton Arp, an astronomer famous for his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). Arp argued that many...5 KB (424 words) - 20:57, 22 September 2024
- Scott Jay Kenyon (born 1956) is an American astrophysicist. His work has included advances in symbiotic and other types of interacting binary stars, the...18 KB (1,927 words) - 13:47, 25 August 2023
- Teledyne Optech is a for-profit company operating since 1974, and focusing on Laser-based survey systems. It started as Optech Incorporated, and was purchased...5 KB (414 words) - 19:30, 27 April 2021
