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  • Thumbnail for Ground station
    A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting...
    13 KB (1,253 words) - 18:11, 6 May 2024
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    A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications,...
    47 KB (5,394 words) - 13:24, 8 June 2024
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    containing the fuel, main engines and instrumentation. The Soyuz is not reusable; it is expendable. A new Soyuz spacecraft must be made for every mission. Soyuz...
    41 KB (4,065 words) - 23:40, 17 June 2024
  • spacecraft, where a direct connection to Earth ground is physically impossible when in flight. Fourthly, a floating ground can help eliminate ground loops...
    6 KB (786 words) - 00:22, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uncrewed spacecraft
    Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input...
    37 KB (3,847 words) - 08:41, 29 May 2024
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    Canada provided instrumentation and test equipment for the COsmic ray and Solar Particle INvestigation (COSPIN) on the Ulysses spacecraft. The COSPIN instrument...
    35 KB (3,817 words) - 04:10, 13 April 2024
  • space and for adjectives applied to objects in space Instrumentation – telescope and other spacecraft equipment, particularly detectors such as imagers and...
    139 KB (13,307 words) - 02:01, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flight controller
    positions. Supervised the network of ground stations that relayed telemetry and communications from the spacecraft. Supervised the application of mission...
    61 KB (7,911 words) - 12:37, 11 May 2024
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    against near-Earth objects (NEOs). It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting...
    65 KB (6,244 words) - 04:11, 24 May 2024
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    the planet. All target encounters will be flyby encounters. The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. It was launched on 16...
    51 KB (4,345 words) - 05:55, 4 June 2024
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    dark matter and galaxies and measure how these properties change as the spacecraft looks further back in time. Highly precise images are required to provide...
    34 KB (3,003 words) - 05:29, 28 May 2024
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    not pointing toward Earth. Previous spacecraft, such as the Voyager program probes, had a rotatable instrumentation platform (a "scan platform") that could...
    175 KB (17,458 words) - 22:49, 15 June 2024
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    Agency (ESA), launched in 2013 and expected to operate until 2025. The spacecraft is designed for astrometry: measuring the positions, distances and motions...
    78 KB (7,773 words) - 20:48, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Voskhod Spacecraft "Globus" IMP navigation instrument
    Globus IMP instruments were spacecraft navigation instruments used in Soviet and Russian crewed spacecraft. The IMP acronym stems from the Russian expression...
    23 KB (2,648 words) - 05:42, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for NASA Deep Space Network
    The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States (California)...
    42 KB (4,543 words) - 10:04, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galileo (spacecraft)
    Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo program...
    57 KB (4,943 words) - 11:41, 31 May 2024
  • testing the atmospheric phase of launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft. Instrumentation systems are developed using proprietary transducers and data...
    24 KB (2,854 words) - 14:38, 12 May 2024
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    IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus (spacecraft))
    liquid oxygen (methalox)-powered spacecraft to fire beyond low-earth orbit, and it is also the first methalox spacecraft to land on an off-world celestial...
    60 KB (4,614 words) - 05:21, 17 June 2024
  • of Technology (MIT) to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory...
    40 KB (4,110 words) - 14:53, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Aaron
    modules. He was in charge of rationing the spacecraft's power during the return flight and, with help from grounded Apollo 13 crew member Ken Mattingly, devised...
    9 KB (1,047 words) - 02:25, 31 March 2024
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