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  • Thumbnail for 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing
    initial mission of the 4028th SRS was the High Altitude Sampling Program (HASP) that was designed to sample the radioactive debris in the upper atmosphere...
    19 KB (2,390 words) - 16:09, 9 February 2024
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    NASA Mini-Sniffer (category NASA programs)
    NASA engineer Dale Reed was investigating methods for sampling the atmosphere at very high altitudes, up to 21 kilometers (70,000 feet). NASA's studies into...
    4 KB (476 words) - 06:10, 3 August 2022
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    multiple flight tests at a high altitude over Earth. A peer-reviewed publication in 2007 described testing of autonomous sample capture for Mars orbit rendezvous...
    118 KB (11,589 words) - 19:46, 3 August 2024
  • all, thirty missions were flown from Cyprus. SAC U-2s flew High Altitude Sampling Program (HASP) missions from RAF Upper Heyford from August to October...
    84 KB (11,510 words) - 00:52, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Project Mogul
    secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high-altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound...
    8 KB (824 words) - 09:39, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra
    Air Weather Service for weather reconnaissance involving high-altitude atmospheric sampling and radiation detection in support of nuclear test monitoring...
    42 KB (5,585 words) - 12:29, 18 August 2024
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    as well as current programs and would not be tied to the Saturn booster. Craig, Kay (ed.). "KSC Technical Capabilities: O&C Altitude Chambers". Center...
    151 KB (16,010 words) - 09:23, 16 September 2024
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    General Atomics Altus (category High-altitude and long endurance aircraft)
    within NASA's ERAST program: to fly a gasoline-fueled, piston-engine remotely piloted aircraft for several hours at an altitude at or near 60,000 feet...
    10 KB (1,129 words) - 02:53, 11 September 2024
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    order to create a safe and comfortable environment for humans flying at high altitudes. For aircraft, this air is usually bled off from the gas turbine engines...
    50 KB (6,064 words) - 17:04, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States...
    167 KB (20,134 words) - 21:44, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moon landing
    onto the surface. The final three Ranger probes performed successful high altitude lunar reconnaissance photography missions during intentional crash impacts...
    116 KB (10,929 words) - 07:36, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chemtrail conspiracy theory
    evidence, scientific or otherwise, to support the allegation that there is high altitude spraying conducted in Canadian airspace. The term 'chemtrails' is a...
    44 KB (4,614 words) - 13:54, 16 September 2024
  • of the Grab Bag program was to develop an unmanned high-altitude balloon-borne system that would collect air samples at an altitude of typically 80,000...
    22 KB (3,435 words) - 05:55, 28 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Mars Climate Orbiter
    time-varying thermal structure of the atmosphere from the surface to 80 km altitude. Map the atmospheric dust loading and its global, vertical and temporal...
    26 KB (2,424 words) - 20:46, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union
    Lockheed U-2 spy plane specifically designed for high-altitude reconnaissance flight. The overflight program was ended following the 1960 U-2 incident. After...
    21 KB (2,384 words) - 06:20, 28 April 2024
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    SpaceX on behalf of Isaacman. The Inspiration4 flight reached an orbital altitude of approximately 585 km (364 mi), the highest achieved since STS-103 in...
    30 KB (2,641 words) - 10:49, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mars Exploration Program
    Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA. Formed in 1993, MEP has made use of orbital spacecraft...
    36 KB (3,060 words) - 20:26, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of United States Air Force reconnaissance aircraft
    RB-57D airframes. Some RB-57Fs used in the Early Day program which involved high altitude air sampling for evidence of Soviet nuclear tests. All surviving...
    48 KB (5,768 words) - 02:31, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for NASA Pathfinder
    and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program. They were built to develop the technologies that would allow long-term, high-altitude aircraft to serve as atmospheric...
    19 KB (1,829 words) - 01:33, 8 September 2024
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    Champollion (spacecraft) (category New Millennium Program)
    The lander was approximately 1.5m high weighing 160 kg; it was to autonomously navigate to the comet from 50 km altitude and anchor itself with a spike....
    3 KB (394 words) - 13:07, 20 August 2022
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