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X-rays must be taken to high altitude by balloons, sounding rockets, and satellites. X-ray astronomy uses a type of space telescope that can see x-ray radiation...

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry...

Indian astronomy refers to astronomy practiced in the Indian subcontinent. It has a long history stretching from pre-historic to modern times. Some of...

A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). It reads: "Each day a different image or...

Scotland. There were two versions of the Petrel rocket: Sounding rocket X-ray astronomy Skua (rocket) Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference...

satellite from China in 1990. The agency was also an early participant in the rocket development program launched by the Ministry of Defence of Pakistan. The...

This is a timeline of astronomy. It covers ancient, medieval, Renaissance-era, and finally modern astronomy. Mayan astronomers discover an 18.7-year cycle...

orbital rockets are as follows: Mu rocket family (M-V) and H-IIB. Japan launched its first satellite, Ohsumi, in 1970, using ISAS' L-4S rocket. Prior to...

costs using economies of scale. SpaceX aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, returning both stages to be "caught"...

Animation of barycenters In astronomy, the barycenter (or barycentre; from Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús) 'heavy' and κέντρον (kéntron) 'center') is the...

In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity. It is useful for...

observatories such as GALEX, as well as sounding rockets and the Space Shuttle. Pioneers in ultraviolet astronomy include George Robert Carruthers, Robert Wilson...

(ICBM) tests, fatality or injury to test animals, uncrewed space flights, rocket-powered aircraft projects of World War II, or conspiracy theories about...

Dubbs, Chris (2007). Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle. Physics and Astronomy. New York: Springer. p. 387. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-49678-8...

development of the Raven rocket motor. During the 1960s, Skylark proved itself to be an excellent platform for space astronomy, possessing the ability...

break-up of Japanese astronomy satellite". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 21 April 2016. Sources "Japan Prepares for Crucial Rocket Launch". SPACE.com. Retrieved...

intelligence and, potentially, weapon delivery. Other satellites include the final rocket stages that place satellites in orbit and formerly useful satellites that...

in X-ray astronomy was initiated with a series of balloon-borne experiments. In the 1970s this was followed by high altitude sounding rocket experiments...

using existing Shuttle technology, including solid rocket boosters and RS-25 engines. The rocket has been criticized for its political motivations, seen...