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weather satellite
weather satellite artificial satellite used to gather data on a global basis for improvement of weather forecasting. Information includes cloud cover, storm location, temperature, and heat balance in the earth's atmosphere. The first weather satellites in the United States were those of the Tiros... Read more |
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper , 1905-73, American astronomer, b. the Netherlands. Kuiper is considered to be the father of modern planetary science for his wide ranging studies of the solar system . Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Saturn 's satellite Titan (1944), the carbon dioxide... Read more |
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Jovian satellites
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satellite DNA
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communications satellite
communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to earth. Later satellites carried with... Read more |
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Infrared Astronomical Satellite
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space exploration
space exploration the investigation of physical conditions in space and on stars, planets, and other celestial bodies through the use of artificial satellites (spacecraft that orbit the earth), space probes (spacecraft that pass through the solar system and that may or may not orbit another... Read more |
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Search and Rescue
Search and Rescue Commercial search and rescue missions to retrieve and repair valuable satellites may become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Telecommunications companies and other businesses typically spend between $50 million and $300 million to manufacture and... Read more |
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Sputnik
Sputnik World's first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Weighing 83.5kg (184lb) and with a radio transmitter, Sputnik 1 circled the Earth for several months.http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik... Read more |
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aerial and satellite photography
aerial and satellite photography technology and science of taking still or moving-picture photographs from a camera mounted on a balloon, airplane, satellite, rocket, or spacecraft. In the 19th cent., photographers such as Thaddeus Lowe and George R. Lawrence took impressive pictures with cameras... Read more |
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Hardware problem blamed on NASA satellite crash
...the launch of a NASA climate satellite...causing it crash back to Earth...appointed by NASA to investigate...protects the satellite did not come...s hardware may be to blame...deputy director of NASA's ... |
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NASA Prepares Crash to Find Water on the Moon, CBS
...TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ROBERTS...from earth. The NASA satellite that`s been...in the name of science and the search...over): The moon may be about to give...camera): The ... |
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Aging NASA Satellite Headed for Fiery End.(Compton Gamma Ray...
...still functioning satellite rather than risk...of control and crash in a populated area. Last week NASA described plans...late last year (Science, 21 January...Edward Weiler, NASA's associate...productive, he says, NASA was ... |
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BROWN PROFESSOR HELPS LEAD NASA CRASH LANDING INTO MOON.
...University: The moon may harbor water...kicked up. The NASA mission, called...and Sensing Satellite, takes place...scheduled to crash into the Cabeus...of geological sciences at Brown, is...control at the NASA Ames ... |
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Germophobic NASA to smash Galileo probe into Jupiter for fear of...
...PASADENA, California NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion...any microbes that may have been stowaways...Administration. NASA typically scrubs...with Galileo, which NASA originally intended...orbiter into Venus. Satellites ... |
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Gamma Ray Satellite Faces Premature End.
NASA may soon deliberately crash a fully operational scientific satellite into the ocean...populated areas. NASA's painful dilemma...We could do science pretty well even...hand, but there may not be enough ... |
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Report: Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite
...ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer AP Online...photo released by NASA, Orbital Sciences Corp. technicians...15, 2004. The NASA spacecraft designed...released Monday, May 15, 2006. Investigators...it. (AP Photo/NASA, HO)A ... |
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Space lab crashes into sea - N.H. scientists protest NASA decision.(News)
...Hampshire space science professor James...astronomers who used the satellite regularly. NASA officials, fearful...its last data on May 26. Around 2...should read, 'NASA saves $700 million...we're reading 'NASA dumps ... |
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NASA Pulls Plug on Costly Satellite
...BRIDGES, AP Science Writer AP Online 08-23-2001 NASA Pulls Plug on Costly Satellite LOS ANGELES...operating costs, NASA is pulling the...past decade. NASA said the 6...or allowed to crash back to Earth...News report ... |
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ON ALERT FOR SATELLITE CRASH.(News)
Byline: Science Reporter BY THE time...out-of-control satellite may have already crashed to Earth. Last night Nasa was preparing for...impact and even then Nasa will only be able...Indian Ocean, but this may change if its ... |
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