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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 ...

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... COSMOS XVI launched by U.S.S.R. into orbit of 401-km. apo­gee, 207-km. ...

... . David, Jr., nominee for posts of OST Director and Science Adviser to President Nixon, at Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. '' (NASA Off of Admin; Paine speech text, 9/14/70 ... landing were of excellent quality. After collecting lunar samples and performing other undisclosed experiments, Luna XVI lifted off from moon. It had spent 26 hrs 25 min on lunar surface. Tans ... containing lunar samples was recovered by helicopter for delivery to Soviet Academy of Sciences. Luna XVI was first unmanned spacecraft to land on moon and return to earth with lunar samples ...

... and encased in a gold-plated shell. In Fall 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI was launched into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. ... . Princeton University Press, 1997; David A. Hardy, ed., ''Visions of space: Artists journey through the cosmos'' . Limpsfield ; New York: Paper Tiger, 1989; International Association of Astronomical Artists

... "the figures follow closely our statistical computations based on results from PEGASUS I and EXPLORERS XVI and EXPLORERS XXIII XXIII . Continued successful operation of PEGASUS II will give us a ... , Bochum Observatory (W. Germany) had reported picking up signals different from those of the Cosmos series, Heinz Kaminski, head of the Institute for Satellite and Space Research at Bochum, ...

... vacuum chamber at NAA’S Rocketdyne Propulsion Field Laboratory. ''(MSFC Historian, 5/22/63)'' EXPLORER XVI meteoroid detector satellite recorded 16 punctures by meteoroids during its first 29 days in orbit ... meteoroid research programs in NASA office of Advanced Research and Technology, said that with EXPLORER XVI “we have established conclusively that there are micrometeoroids out there which can penetrate thin surfaces ...

... .S.R. space talks was taken by Soviet Academy of Sciences hosts to see Luna XVI lunar samples at Moscow geochemical institute before delegation departed for U.S. Academy President Mstislav ... .5 oz) of lunar soil picked up by unmanned Luna XVI during Sept. 1224 mission. At Moscow press conference on Luna XVI Academician Keldysh said Soviet scientists would continue to emphasize unmanned ...

Lunar samples returned by U.S.S.R.'s Luna XVI (launched Sept. 12) contained less titanium and zirconium oxide and more ferric oxide than Apollo ... of space originated inert gases" but in overall composition the Luna XVI samples more closely resembled those from Apollo 12 . Luna XVI material was fragmented basaltic type containing 70 chemical elements; granularity ...

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