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  • Thumbnail for Solar Orbiter
    The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
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    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. The central mass became so hot and dense that it...
    170 KB (19,293 words) - 20:03, 7 September 2024
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    The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making...
    90 KB (8,189 words) - 12:37, 24 August 2024
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    Conducts First Test of Solar Power Satellite Hardware in Orbit". www.navy.mil (Press release). U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Public Affairs. May 18,...
    109 KB (12,593 words) - 18:27, 15 September 2024
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    The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed...
    105 KB (13,040 words) - 03:12, 11 September 2024
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    other Indian Space Research Institutes. It is orbiting at about 1.5 million km from Earth in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) between the...
    41 KB (3,573 words) - 21:58, 9 September 2024
  • Van Allen Probes were a project, along with Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The Applied Physics Laboratory was responsible for the implementation and...
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    The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It was formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region...
    222 KB (21,821 words) - 16:55, 7 September 2024
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    successfully placed in a halo orbit around L1 point". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 January 2024. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Solar System Exploration: :...
    148 KB (2,960 words) - 20:17, 10 September 2024
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    effort for a solar sail began in 1976 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a proposed mission to rendezvous with Halley's Comet. Most solar sails are based...
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    Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. The Solar System belts' size and placement...
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    The ISS programme combines two prior plans to construct crewed Earth-orbiting stations: Space Station Freedom planned by the United States, and the Mir-2...
    352 KB (31,262 words) - 14:50, 14 September 2024
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    including the Curiosity Rover; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter; the SMAP satellite for Earth surface soil moisture...
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    is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets by the...
    197 KB (20,747 words) - 04:13, 4 September 2024
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    Solar irradiance is the power per unit area (surface power density) received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range...
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    "Voyager – Mission Status". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA. Retrieved November 4, 2019. "Spacecraft escaping the Solar System". Heavens Above. Chris Peat. Retrieved...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Solar System exploration
    notable Earth-orbiting craft.[vague] It does not include: Centuries of terrestrial telescopic observation. The great majority of Earth-orbiting satellites...
    174 KB (8,646 words) - 17:07, 16 June 2024
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    space probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points...
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    planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian...
    179 KB (19,082 words) - 08:07, 10 September 2024
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    Europa Clipper (category Solar System Exploration program)
    as the proposal of the Discovery-class Europa Orbiter, the robotic Galileo spacecraft was already orbiting Jupiter. From December 8, 1995, to December 7...
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