Tracking of Spacecraft
For tracking purposes, there are two types of space objects—cooperating and noncooperating. Normal civilian satellites and some military satellites
use beacons and radar ...
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Cycling Spacecraft
The furthering of humankind's expansion into space and establishing of firm footholds on other worlds could depend on a continuously moving, cycling spaceship network. These ...
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Vehicles
Space vehicles encompass different categories of spacecraft, including satellites,rockets, space capsules,space stations, and colonies. In general, satellites are considered any object launch...
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Spacecraft, Manned
Manned spacecraft are vehicles with the capability of maintaining life outside of Earth's atmosphere. Partially in recognition of the fact that women as well as men are activ...
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Spacecraft, Manned
During the late 1950s the Soviet Union and the United States confined their Cold War competition for dominance in space to unmanned satellites. The Soviets successfully launched the...
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A comet-busting NASA spacecraft zipped past Earth on Monday on its way to rendezvous with another comet in an extended mission that will also see it hunt for Earth-sized planets around a cluster of...
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A European spacecraft was on course to zip past Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet.The Rosetta c...
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is asking engineers to join his fledgling and secretive private aerospace business, breaking a long silence about his operation in a remote section of West Texas by po...
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A NASA spacecraft will fly by the planet Mercury on Monday, the first visit to the sun's closest neighbor since the 1970s.The space probe Messenger will skim 124 miles above the planet's surface, t...
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When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan.The "Visions of Mars" mini-disk secured to the lander wil...
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MOSCOW, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Russia has launched a project to
create a new generation of spacecraft and boosters, the head of
national space administration said on Friday, making clear that
they wou...
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NASA said Tuesday it is recycling two used spacecraft to lead new robotic missions to study comets and planets around other stars. The encore performances of the Deep Impact and Stardust probes all...
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Tracking of Spacecraft
Spacecraft, Manned
Spacecraft, Manned
Deep Impact spacecraft zips past Earth
