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... average figure. Because they are all different sizes, there are no "satellite showrooms" and every satellite is specially made. Also, satellites go into a range of different orbits. A typical rocket launch of a communications satellite will cost about $100 million, while the satellite ...
If you want to know how much it costs NASA to fly the Space Shuttle once, then that number is a little easier to find. Depending on how you count it's between $500 million and $1.5 billion.
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Answer provided by Ben Reytblat
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... a satellite's orbit to drop lower. Beyond this low orbit regime, a satellite can remain in orbit forever.
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Answer provided by Derek Webber
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... sleep a night. This is probably due to a variety of factors, such as a busy schedule, and the adaptation to spaceflight. On longer duration missions they can get six to eight hours of sleep a night, depending on the person.
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Answer provided by Dr. Jay C. Buckey, Jr.
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... a large core of stars. At the center of the core is a massive black hole.
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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The Sun is our nearest star and is composed of mostly hydrogen and helium. It is a giant ball of incandescent gas 872,000 miles in diameter, which gives off energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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The feeling is of floating, somewhat like being in the water, but there is no resistance. While most people tend to start by kicking their legs, that will not make you move in space. ... much like seasickness, and there are lots of medications to help.
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Answer provided by Byron Lichtenberg, Ph.D.
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... satellites, telescopes, and other instruments to monitor and track where vehicles are.
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... solar system and think of our galaxy, the Milky Way, it is so much more immense that we have to use different ways to describe distances. So we use light years. That sounds like a measurement of time, but it is not. It is a distance. A light year is about six million million miles, and the Milky Way is ...
The VSS Enterprise and the other Virgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceships will have two pilots. This is an important safety measure and also of course provides for pilot training in much the ...
Answer provided by Sir Richard Branson
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