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... British Interplanetary Society for Volume 54 54 '''Page ''' - 417-423 '''Year''' - 2001 '''Keywords''' - Cosmos, cartographic, Orion, photoreconnaissance, Zenit '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2001.54.417 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract The Soviet-era Orion satellites launched within the Cosmos programme were the first recoverable cartographic satellites to be flown ...

... a single-stage Orion sounding rocket, 70 seconds later a two-stage Taurus-Orion, and then 57 seconds later a Nike-Orion; all three were solid-propellant sounding rockets. The Taurus-Orion lofted its 297-lb. payload to a peak altitude of 120 statute miles, and the Nike-Orion ...

... payload near Roanoke, Va. At 10:40 p.m. EDT, WFC launched a two-stage Nike Orion rocket carrying a 232-kilogram (510-pound) payload that reached peak altitude of 90.2 ... well as positive and negative conductivity in the middle region, for comparison with balloon and Nike-Orion measurement. (WFC Release 80-11) ARC would close the free world's largest wind tunnel ...

... 1:46 p.m. EDT June 24 and 1:46 p.m. EDT June 26 Nike-Orion sounding rockets for the University of Illinois to investigate the daytime mid-latitude ionosphere between ... statute miles, and preliminary results indicated all instrumentation performed satisfactorily and obtained good data. The Nike-Orion was a two-stage, solid-propellant unguided sounding rocket about 30 feet long. Researchers would ...

... define ozone variability during the period. Measuring instruments would fly on four kinds of rockets (Orion, Nike Orion, Super Areas, Super Loki) scheduled to coincide with orbiting-satellite passes, to compare rocket measurements ...

... a escaped moon of Neptune. (NASA Release 82-104) WFC announced the launch of a Nike Orion sounding rocket at 11:40 a.m. to measure magnetosphere instabilities induced by very low ...

... provide information to refine models used to build the system and Orion. Changes to the design and materials used in Orion's parachute system already have been made based on previous tests ... partners the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike created LAUNCH in 2010 to identify, showcase and accelerate innovative approaches to specific sustainability ...

... by parachute. Primary objective of studying ultra-violet radiation of three stars in the constellation Orion was achieved Payload was recovered in good condition and the film extracted and developed. Princeton ... rocket program of investigations of the ionosphere. Tentative schedule of new series called for two Nike-Apache launches this year and two more early next year from Norway's Andoeya Range ...

... to develop commercial spaceflight capabilities to low Earth orbit, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket, to provide ... human exploration of deep space. Designed to be flexible for launching crew and cargo missions, Orion and SLS will expand human presence beyond Earth and enable new missions of exploration across ... on Earth and may be used to solve problems for long-duration spaceflight. NASA, USAID, Nike Inc. and the U.S. State Department are LAUNCH founding partners. The Office of Naval ...

... NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where engineers will gather more information about Orion’s performance. Orion’s flight tested many of the systems most critical to crew safety, including key ... many of the systems critical to the safety of astronauts who will travel in Orion. On future missions, Orion will launch on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket currently ... Ascent Abort-2 in 2018, a test of Orion’s launch abort system. Lockheed Martin, NASA’s prime contractor for Orion, began manufacturing the Orion crew module in 2011 and delivered it in ...

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