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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 XXII into earth orbit. Ini­tial orbital data : apogee, 394 km. (45 mi.) ; perigee, 205 km. ( ...

... unarguable, however, that results from increasingly complex missions have revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos. The Nobel Prize in physics was, for the first time in 2006, awarded for ... . note 23 . Art. V of Liability Convention. note 24 . Art. XXII of Liability Convention. note 25 Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty.

NASA launched EXPLORER XXII ''(BE-B)'' beacon-explorer satellite with four-stage Scout launch vehicle from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. ... . apogee, 549-mi. perigee, 104.7-min. period, and 80° inclination to the equator. EXPLORER XXII was last of five satellites in first phase of NASA's ionosphere exploration and first ... the Doppler shift method and the Faraday rotation method. The international scientific effort with EXPLORER XXII was the most extensive ever for a U.S. space project. Network of more than ...

... to exchange experimental color TV broadcasts. ''(NYT, 1/18,/68, 52)'' AFCRL geodesists hit Explorer XXII satellite with multipulse ruby laser beam in daylight for second time. First success in using satellite as target for reflection in daylight was on Dec. 19, 1967, by AFCRL. Explorer XXII, launched by NASA Oct. 9, 1964, carried special reflectors for laser beams. Experiment was designed ...

NASA and General Electric Co. announced they had accomplished precision tracking of EXPLORER XXII with a laser device. Tests were conducted at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center using a ... the telescope aimed along the predicted path, the laser was flashed several times as EXPLORER XXII , containing an array of corner reflectors, passed overhead. The reflectors, made of quartz crystal, were ...

... 't fade the way radio waves do." Laser experiments also were being conducted with Explorer XXII , XXVII, and XXIX, and two French satellites. ''(Kehoe, W Post, 8/8/68, Fl)'' ComSatCorp ...

... /64)'' NASA Goddard Space Flight Center officials announced they believed they had successfully "hit" EXPLORER XXII satellite with laser beams fired one-per-second across more than 500 miles. Whether the ...

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