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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 ...

Image:Explorer18.jpg 200px Explorer 18 satellite Category:Spacecraft

... No. 63-51, Wallops Releases 63-51 and 63-52)'' Soviet press agency Tass announced Cosmos XVIII satellite had been placed in orbit (apogee, 187 mi. ; perigee, 130 mi. ; period, 89.44 ...

... 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 a ... Use of Outer Space'' , adopted by the UN General Assembly (under General Assembly resolution 1962(XVIII) on 13 December 1963; (b) The 1982 ''Principles Governing the Use by States of Artificial ...

... of the earth's magnetic field on the nighttime side of the magnetosphere by EXPLORER XVIII ''(IMP I, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)'' , launched Nov. 26, 1963. Until recently, scientists had believed that the earth's magnetosphere was basically spherical; however, data from EXPLORER XVIII indicate that countless magnetic lines of force stretched out like the tail of a comet ...

... Feb. 23, close to highest speed previously recorded of 1,675,000 mph by EXPLORER XVIII in earth orbit. Preliminary scientific findings would be presented to American Geophysical Union meeting ... Launch Escape System LES Landes launching site south of Bordeaux, France, published in Air et Cosmos and confirmed by French Ministry of Armed Forces, indicated base was operational, Washington Post ...

NASA successfully launched EXPLORER XVIII , the Inter­planetary Monitoring Probe (Imp), from Atlantic Missile Range AMR on a Thor-Delta ... to have an apogee of 173,000 mi. and a perigee of 125 mi., EXPLORER XVIII was tracked as having an apogee of 122,800 mi. and a perigee of 120 ...

... EXPLORER XVIII (Imp) satellite completed second of its long elliptical orbits (apogee, 122,800 mi.; perigee, 119 ...

Scientific results from the EXPLORER XVIII satellite-Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP)-was topic of discussion at GSFC symposium. The NASA satellite ...

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