Delta II

The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE or Explorer 78) is a NASA MIDEX mission that is studying the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind. It was launched March 3, 2000 by a Delta II from Vandenberg AFB. It is in orbit 1000 km by 46,000 km orbit around the Earth, with an inclination of 90° (so it passes over the poles) and a 14.5 hour period. IMAGE is the first spacecraft dedicated to observing the magnetosphere of Earth and produces comprehensive globa ...

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The first stage of a Delta IV consists of one, or in the Heavy variety three, CBCs (common booster cores) powered by a Rocketdyne RS-68 engine. Unlike most first-stage rocket engines, which use solid fuel or kerosene, the RS-68 engines burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The first-stage tanks are based on the construction methods of the upper stage tanks originally developed for the Delta III, but enlarged to five meters diameter. As the name implies, the CBC is used across the entire Delta IV range, allowing the launch vehicle ...

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Delta IV rocket, Delta IV rocket - Vehicle Description, Delta IV rocket - Variants, Delta IV rocket - Launch sites, Delta IV rocket - Launch history, Delta IV rocket - Upgrade options

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The Falcon 1 is designed to minimize price per launch for Low Earth Orbit satellites. It is also intended to verify components and structural design concepts that will be re-used in the Falcon 5. The first stage returns by parachute to a water landing and is recovered for reuse, while the second stage is not reusable. Falcon 1 - First stage. The first stage is made from friction stir welded aluminum alloy. It employs a common bulkhead between the LOX and RP-1 tanks, as well as flight pressure stabilization ...

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Falcon 1, Falcon 1 - Design, Falcon 1 - First stage, Falcon 1 - Second stage, Falcon 1 - Launch sequence, Falcon 1 - Launch sites, Falcon 1 - Maiden flights, Falcon 1 - Launch log

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Air Force Space Command - Numbered Air Forces. Air Force Space Command has two numbered air forces. The Fourteenth Air Force provides space warfighting forces to U.S. Strategic Command, and is located at Vandenberg AFB, California. They manage the generation and employment of space forces to support U.S. Strategic Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) operational plans and missions. The Twentieth Air Force is located at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming and maintains AFSPC's ICBM weapon systems in support of U.S. Strategic Command war plans. ...

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Air Force Space Command, Air Force Space Command - Mission, Air Force Space Command - People, Air Force Space Command - Organization, Air Force Space Command - Numbered Air Forces, Air Force Space Command - Direct Reporting Units, Air Force Space Command - Locations, Air Force Space Command - Space capabilities, Air Force Space Command - Resources, Air Force Space Command - History, Air Force Space Command - Point of contact, Air Force Space Command - Trivia

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The first images taken by SST were designed to show off the abilities of the telescope and showed a glowing stellar nursery; a swirling, dusty galaxy; a disc of planet-forming debris; and organic material in the distant universe. Since then, monthly press releases have shown off Spitzer's capabilities, as the Hubble Heritage images do for the HST. As one of its most noteworthy observations, in 2005, SST became the first to directly capture the light from extrasolar planets; the "hot Jupiter" planets HD 209458b and TrES-1 respectively. [3] Th ...

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Spitzer space telescope, Spitzer space telescope - Instruments, Spitzer space telescope - Results, Spitzer space telescope - External link

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Gary Burrell, born in 1937 earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University and graduate degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He went to work for King Radio, a manufacturer of aviation radios in 1963 only six years after that company had been started by Edward King Jr. in a farmhouse in Olathe, Kansas. A licensed pilot, Burrell led development on some of King’s most successful navigation and communications products. King went on ...

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Garmin, Garmin - Founders and Company Origins, Garmin - Products, Garmin - Company’s Growth

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A number of satellites (See links) use exotic dual-band radar altimeters to measure height from a spacecraft. That measurement, coupled with orbital elements (possibly from GPS), enables determination of the topography. The two lengths of radio waves permit the altimeter to automatically correct for varying delays in the ionosphere. Over water, detailed satellite altitude information has proven amazingly useful. Humps in the water indicate gravitational concentrations, permitting a computer program to construct a maps of undersea feat ...

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Jason 1, Jason 1 - Use of information

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The base was originally established in 1941 as the US Army's Camp Cooke. The facility served as a training center for armored and infantry troops through World War II and again in the Korean War. The base was transferred to the US Air Force in 1957 and began its transformation into a space and ballistic missile test facility. The year after, the base was renamed after General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, second chief of staff of the Air Force.Space Launch Complex 10 is maintained as an example of a 1950s launch complex and is a National Historic Landmark. ...

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Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vandenberg Air Force Base - History, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Space Shuttle, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Mission, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Geography, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Demographics, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch sites, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Vandenberg in fiction

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Stellenbosch University is a predominantly Afrikaans medium university, especially at undergraduate and honours course level. However, students are allowed to write their assignments, tests and examinations in English. At postgraduate level the language of tuition is determined by the composition of the class. The majority of advanced postgraduate courses are conducted in English. This is still an ongoing issue for the University, since it is one of the very few institutions left in South Africa offering tuition in Afrikaans. Other institutions ar ...

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Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch University - History, Stellenbosch University - Location, Stellenbosch University - Language, Stellenbosch University - Faculties and schools, Stellenbosch University - Facilities and services, Stellenbosch University - Notable Alumni, Stellenbosch University - External link

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Sensors 61 cm panchromatic at nadir 2.44 m multispectral at nadir Channels: blue, green, red, near-IR Swath width and area size Nominal swath width: 16.5 km at nadir Accessible ground swath: 544 km centered on the satellite ground track (to 30° off nadir) Area of interest Single area: 16.5 km by 16.5 km

NEAR Shoemaker - Summary. The primary goal of the mission was to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit for approximately one year. Eros is an S-type asteroid approximately 13 × 13 × 33 km in size, the second largest near-Earth asteroid. Initially the orbit was circular with a radius of 200 km. The radius of the orbit was brought down in stages to a 50 × 50 km orbit on 30 April 2000 and decreased to 35 × 35 km on July 14, 2000. The orbit was raised over succeeding months to a 200 × 200 km orbit an ...

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NEAR Shoemaker, NEAR Shoemaker - Mission profile, NEAR Shoemaker - Summary, NEAR Shoemaker - The journey to Eros, NEAR Shoemaker - Failure of first attempt at orbital insertion, NEAR Shoemaker - Orbital insertion, NEAR Shoemaker - Orbits and landing, NEAR Shoemaker - Spacecraft and subsystems, NEAR Shoemaker - Reference

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Mars Polar Lander and the attached Deep Space 2 probes were launched on a Delta 7425 (a Delta II Lite launch vehicle with four strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 48 (PAM-D) third stage) which placed them into a low-Earth parking orbit. The third stage fired for 88 seconds at 20:57 UT 3 January 1999 to put the spacecraft into a Mars transfer trajectory and the spacecraft and third stage separated at 21:03 UT. Trajectory correction maneuvers were performed on 21 January, 15 ...

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Mars Polar Lander, Mars Polar Lander - Loss of lander, Mars Polar Lander - Scientific objectives, Mars Polar Lander - Spacecraft and subsystems, Mars Polar Lander - Mission profile

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Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Bombers. Y1B-9 B-17 Flying Fortress B-29 Superfortress B-47 Stratojet B-50 Superfortress B-52 Stratofortress B-1B Lancer (Rockwell) B-2 Spirit (in contractor team under Northrop Grumman) Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Helicopters. AH-64 Apache CH-46 Sea Knight CH-47 Chinook V-22 Osprey (with Bell Helicopter) RAH-66 Coma ...

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Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Products, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Bombers, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Helicopters, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Tactical fighters, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Tankers and transports, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Surveillance and other military, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Unmanned aerial vehicles, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Missiles, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Space launch and exploration, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Satellites, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Other, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Other divisions, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Facilities

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Delta rocket - Delta A. Block II MB-3 engine, 170,000 lbf (756 kN) vs. 152,000 lbf (676 kN) 13. EPE2 14. EPE3 Delta rocket - Delta B. Upgraded AJ10-118D upper stage--3 foot tank stretch, higher energy oxidizer, solid-state guidance system. Delta program goes from 'interim' to 'operational' status. 200 lb (90 kg) to GTO. 15. 13 Dec 1962. Relay 1, second NASA communications satellite, NASA's first active one. 16. 13 Feb 196 ...

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Delta rocket, Delta rocket - Delta origins, Delta rocket - Early Delta flights, Delta rocket - Delta Numbering System, Delta rocket - Delta Evolution, Delta rocket - Delta A, Delta rocket - Delta B, Delta rocket - Delta C, Delta rocket - Delta D, Delta rocket - Delta E, Delta rocket - Delta G, Delta rocket - Delta J, Delta rocket - Delta L, Delta rocket - Delta M, Delta rocket - Delta N, Delta rocket - 'Super Six', Delta rocket - Delta 1000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta 2000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta 3000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta 4000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta 5000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta II 6000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta 7000-Series, Delta rocket - Delta III, Delta rocket - Med-Lite, Delta rocket - Delta II-Heavy, Delta rocket - Delta IV, Delta rocket - Future Development

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List of launch vehicles - United States. Agena Atlas Atlas II Atlas IIAS Atlas III Atlas V Centaur Delta Delta II Delta III Delta IV Falcon Falcon 1 Falcon 5 Falcon 9 Little Joe ...

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List of launch vehicles, List of launch vehicles - Americas, List of launch vehicles - United States, List of launch vehicles - Asia including Middle East, List of launch vehicles - People's Republic of China, List of launch vehicles - India, List of launch vehicles - Israel, List of launch vehicles - Japan, List of launch vehicles - Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea, List of launch vehicles - Republic of Korea South Korea, List of launch vehicles - Europe, List of launch vehicles - Joint European, List of launch vehicles - United Kingdom, List of launch vehicles - France, List of launch vehicles - Former Soviet Union, List of launch vehicles - Russia/Soviet Union, List of launch vehicles - Ukraine

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The NSTAR ion thruster achieves a specific impulse of over one to three thousand seconds. This is an order of magnitude higher than traditional space propulsion methods, resulting in a mass savings of approximately half. This leads to much cheaper launch vehicles. Although the engine produces 92 milliNewtons of thrust at maximum power (about a third of an ounce), the craft achieved high speeds because ion engines thrust continuously for long periods. The engine fired for 678 total days, a record for such engines. The next spacecraft to use NSTAR engines is ...

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Deep Space 1, Deep Space 1 - Technologies, Deep Space 1 - Achievements, Deep Space 1 - Statistics

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The Mars Express Orbiter is a cube-shaped spacecraft with two solar panel wings extending from opposite sides. The launch mass of 1123 kg includes a main bus with 113 kg of payload, the 60 kg lander, and 457 kg of propellant. The main body is 1.5 m × 1.8 m × 1.4 m in size, with an aluminium honeycomb structure covered by an aluminum skin. The solar panels measure about 12 m tip-to-tip. A 1.8 m diameter high-gain antenna is mounted on one face, pointing in the same direction as the solar panels. Two 20 m long wire dipole antennas extend fro ...

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Mars Express Orbiter, Mars Express Orbiter - Spacecraft and subsystems, Mars Express Orbiter - Mission profile, Mars Express Orbiter - Scientific discoveries and important events, Mars Express Orbiter - 2004, Mars Express Orbiter - 2005

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The spacecraft has the shape of an octagonal prism, approximately 1.7 m on a side, with four fixed gallium arsenide solar panels in a windmill arrangement, a fixed 1.5 m X-band high-gain radio antenna with a magnetometer mounted on the antenna feed, and an X-ray solar monitor on one end (the forward deck), with the other instruments fixed on the opposite end (the aft deck). Most electronics are mounted on the inside of th ...

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NEAR Shoemaker, NEAR Shoemaker - Mission profile, NEAR Shoemaker - Summary, NEAR Shoemaker - The journey to Eros, NEAR Shoemaker - Failure of first attempt at orbital insertion, NEAR Shoemaker - Orbital insertion, NEAR Shoemaker - Orbits and landing, NEAR Shoemaker - Spacecraft and subsystems, NEAR Shoemaker - Reference

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Vandenberg AFB is located at 34°45′4″N, 120°29′52″W1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the base has a total area of 57.3 km² (22.1 mi²). 57.1 km² (22.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.32% water. Much of the base is rugged, mountainous, and undeveloped; predominant groundcover includes chaparral with coastal sage scrub and oak woodland. Because of its protected natur ...

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Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vandenberg Air Force Base - History, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Space Shuttle, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Mission, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Geography, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Demographics, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch sites, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Vandenberg in fiction

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As of the census2 of 2000, there are 6,151 people, 1,707 households, and 1,601 families residing in the base. The population density is 107.7/km² (278.8/mi²). There are 1,992 housing units at an average density of 34.9/km² (90.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the base is 72.26% White, 11.74% African American, 0.54% Native American, 3.90% Asian, 0.65% Pacific Islander, 4.96% from other races, and 5.95% from two or more races. 11 ...

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Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vandenberg Air Force Base - History, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Space Shuttle, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Mission, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Geography, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Demographics, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch sites, Vandenberg Air Force Base - Vandenberg in fiction

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