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... for Volume 59 59 '''Page ''' - 68-70 '''Year''' - 2006 '''Keywords''' - Beam driven sail, solar sail, Cosmos-1 '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.68 '''Number of Pages''' - 3 Abstract The Planetary Society planned to launch Cosmos-1, the first solar sail in 2005. We planned an experiment to irradiate the sail ...

... Abstract A companion paper has reviewed the various series of satellites launched using the small Cosmos-2/2M vehicle during 1961- 1977 1 . The present paper presents a review of the ...

U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS LXXXVI , COSMOS LXXXVII LXXXVII , COSMOS LXXXVIII LXXXVIII , COSMOS LXXXIX LXXXIX , and COSMOS XC XC artificial earth satellites with a single booster. Orbital parameters: apogee, 1,609 km. (999.3 ...

U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos CCCXLVI from Baikonur into orbit with 351-km (218.1-mi) apogee, 206-km (128. ... priority in the funding arena and lack of support from the using command; and the XC-142, while partially successful, was not approved for production. Only the British Harrier, of all ...

... /68, A5)'' NASA announced it soon would begin series of test flights at LaRC of XC-142 tilt-wing VTOL aircraft on loan from USAF, to determine opera­tional problems in airport terminal areas during poor visibility. XC-142, for which Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc., was prime contractor, was propeller-driven and powered ...

... three or even 30 orbits. ''(Macomber, Copley News Service, San Diego Union, 1/13/65)'' XC-142A V/Stol, flown by Ling-Temco-Vought test pilots John Konrad and Stuart Madison ... flight, and then circled the field, reversed the process, and made a vertical landing. The XC-142A's first transition flight came only six flights after its initial hover flight on ...

... reported completion of 40mo of tests in a joint U.S.-Canadian project using an XC-8A Buffalo military cargo plane from Canada with a huge air-filled rubber doughnut for ... soft-land at a rate of 8ft per sec with. a .6° nose angle. The XC-8A weighed 33,000lb during the tests without cargo; Buzzard said it could have tested ...

... high-altitude aircraft compartments (including effects of sudden decompressions), findings which were incorporated in the XC-35 sub-stratosphere plane, the first successful pressure-cabin aircraft. Konstantin E. Tsiolkovski , Russian mathematician ...

... . The three services were sharing equally in funding, support, and evaluation of the X-19 , XC­142A , and the X-22A experimental aircraft. ''(AFSC Opera­tional Highlights, 12)'' August 1963 August ...

... encountered by operational aircraft of the hingeless rotor type. ''(NASA Release 64-147: LARC Release)'' XC-142A V/STOL aircraft, built by Ling-Temco-Vought for the Army, USN, and USAF ...

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