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  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle orbiter
    The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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  • Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei. According to current theories...
    42 KB (5,344 words) - 09:10, 19 April 2024
  • Shensuo (Chinese: 神梭), formerly Interstellar Express, is a proposed Chinese National Space Administration program designed to explore the heliosphere and...
    16 KB (1,183 words) - 04:13, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soyuz TM-28
    TM-28 was a Soyuz mission to the Mir space station. Docked with Mir. Baturin became the first Russian politician in space. Padalka and Avdeyev performed...
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  • Galaxy 30 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 125° West longitude, serving the North American market. It was built by Orbital ATK...
    4 KB (237 words) - 04:19, 30 October 2023
  • The New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars (NSV) is a star catalogue containing 14,811 stars which, although suspected to be variable, were not given...
    945 bytes (93 words) - 03:04, 7 April 2021
  • Thumbnail for Aphrodite Terra
    Aphrodite Terra /æfroʊˈdaɪtiː ˈtɛrə/ is one of the three continental regions on the planet Venus, the others being Ishtar Terra and Lada Terra. It is named...
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  • Intelsat 7, formerly PAS-7, was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat which spent most of its operational life serving the Europe, Africa, Middle...
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  • Thumbnail for Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 19
    Launch Complex 19 (LC-19) is a deactivated launch site on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida used by NASA to launch all of the Gemini crewed spaceflights...
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  • Thumbnail for (33342) 1998 WT24
    (33342) 1998 WT24 is a bright, sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) of the Aten group, located...
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  • AMC-10 (formerly GE-10) is an American geostationary communications satellite that was launched by an Atlas-IIAS launch vehicle at 23:46:02 UTC on 5 February...
    3 KB (120 words) - 02:27, 12 April 2024
  • TacSat-6 is a U.S. military experimental technology and communication satellite. The Operationally Responsive Space Office (ORS) funded the launch that...
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    Philip Kenyon Chapman (5 March 1935 – 5 April 2021) was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group...
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  • PAS-6 was a communications satellite owned by PanAmSat and serving the South America market. PAS-6 was constructed by Space Systems/Loral, based on the...
    3 KB (181 words) - 17:08, 27 June 2021
  • PAS-3, was a communications satellite for PanAmSat. Launched in December 1994. PAS-3 was constructed by Hughes Aircraft Corporation, based on the HS-601...
    3 KB (186 words) - 08:43, 15 April 2021
  • Auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) is the intense radio radiation emitted in the acceleration zone (at a height of three times the radius of the Earth)...
    2 KB (190 words) - 20:22, 29 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Comet Morehouse
    Comet Morehouse (modern formal designation: C/1908 R1) was a bright, non-periodic comet discovered by US astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse and first observed...
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  • Thumbnail for Yanping East railway station
    Yanping East railway station (Chinese: 延平东站) is a railway station in Yanping District, Nanping, Fujian, China. On 11 December 2019, the name of this station...
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