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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 ...

... Conf- Transcript)'' U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS XLI , COSMOS XLII , and COSMOS XLIII earth satellites into orbit, the last two with a single rocket booster. COSMOS XLI was in initial orbit of 39,855-km. (24,775-mi.) apogee, 394-km. (245-mi.) perigee, 11 hr. 55 min. period, and 64° inclination to equator. COSMOS XLII and ...

... , the problem of going to the moon had been studied with the Cosmos series of spacecraft, He said COSMOS III and COSMOS IV had studied solor plasma, its energy and location in earth ... than 50 million measurements; 20 million more had been stored in a data-storage system, COSMOS XLI had investigated charged particles at 40,000 mi, altitude. The Elektron series, he continued, had ...

... would be transmitted to Manned Spacecraft Center MSC as needed to support Apollo missions. Explorer XLI carried 12 experiments-greatest number ever carried by IMP spacecraft-provided by universities, NASA centers, and industry to measure cosmic rays, solar plasmas, and magnetic fields in interplanetary space. Explorer XLI was seventh in series of 10 IMP spacecraft planned by NASA. Two of six previously ...

... of Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO V, Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO VI, Ogo VI, and Explorer XLI . Applications satellites included Intelsat-III F-3, Intelsat-III F-4, and Intelsat-III F ... for chemically powered engines. U.S.S.R.'s 70 payloads included 55 Cosmos satellites and 2 Inter-cosmos, 2 Meteor spacecraft Meteor , 1 Luna, 1 Zond, 5 Soyuz, and 2 Venus ...

... Explorer XLI Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (launched June 21) was adjudged successful by NASA. Spacecraft was functioning satisfactorily ...

... nuclear physics. ''(Transcript)'' Tenth anniversary of U.S.S.R.'s first Cosmos satellite, Cosmos 1, launched March 16, 1962. Cosmos satellites' wide variety of functions were described in Trud by Soviet engineer ... and earth, "Cosmos-261 and Cosmos-348 explored the plasma ocean. Cosmos-166, which spent a long time patrolling the sun, made a careful survey of the solar disc. Cosmos-92 and Cosmos-149 could ...

... launch of an unnamed satellite (named Cosmos 1 only 3wk later, when Tass reported launch of Cosmos 2). The USSR had seldom announced the purpose of Cosmos launches, a ploy that permitted concealment ... military applications, including hunter-killer tests. USSR comments had stressed the practical aspects of the Cosmos program, such as experience accumulated during geophysical experiments for use on the "Meteor" spacecraft; basic ...

... , Aerospace Daily reported. Some observers linked the maneuver to the failure the week before of Cosmos 1625, a solar-powered electronic ocean reconnaissance satellite (EORSAT). They believed that EORSATs and RORSATs ... ships and that, upon the failure of Cosmos 1625, the Soviets decided Cosmos 1607 was not worth maintaining. Others said the Soviets terminated the Cosmos 1607 mission because it had operated successfully for ... week in 1981, and in that same year Cosmos 1299 only a little longer. In 1982 Cosmos 1412 was operational for only 40 days.) Cosmos 1607 was the second Soviet RORSAT of 1984 ...

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