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... SPUTNIKS AND AFTER''' by Gilzin, K. ''London, 1959: Macdonald and Co., Ltd., 285 pages, $5.00'' A translation of a Soviet general-level book on space travel and interplanetary exploration, it includes accounts of the history of rockets and satellite ...

... AIR FORCE REPORT ON THE BALLISTIC MISSILE: ITS TECHNOLOGY, LOGISTICS, AND STRATEGY''' by Gantz, K. F. (ed) ''Garden City (New York) 1958: Doubleday and Co., 338 pages, $4.50'' Such subjects as command and control of ballistic missiles, organization of ballistic missile units, test programs ...

... GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, TRACKING, AND SPACE PHYSICS''' by LeGalley, D. P. (ed) ''New York, 1960: Academic Press, 450 pages, $9.00'' Volume 3 of the four-volume series "Ballistic Missile and Space Technology" contains ... , Inc., and the Aerospace Corporation. The contents include contributions in the following major fields: guidance and navigation, tracking, space trajectories, and space physics. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology ...

... no "satellite showrooms" and every satellite is specially made. Also, satellites go into a range of different orbits. A typical rocket launch of a communications satellite will cost about $100 million, while the satellite itself might cost twice as much. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from ...

... all shapes and sizes. Weighing about 180 pounds, Sputnik 1 was a shiny aluminum ball just two feet in diameter, with four "sweptback" antennas. Inmarsat 4, a more recent communications satellite, weighs 100 times more, has a width of 150 feet with its solar cells extended, and is as tall as a house. ---- Answer provided ...

... three domestic satellites in the Ofeq series, the third of which was the country's first photoreconnaissance satellite. This paper provides a review of Ofeq 3 and also discusses the related GREENSAT and EROS ...

... '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2001.54.153 '''Number of Pages''' - 6 Abstract Life on Earth exists, and may well have begun, at hot springs on the deep ocean floor. This life is ... satellites of the outer planets. Of all the possible candidate worlds, Europa is the likeliest to harbour life today, because there is abundant morphological evidence that its surface ice is thin and ...

... and tracking and data relay systems which are used by both governments and the private sector, serving as a major customer for commercial space products and services, partnering with the private sector in specific space projects, and ...

... in the world. Thirty-five more relay stations including a group linking ... perhaps special ability in communications, tracking, and data handling and processing. The Chemical Industry ... and satellite experiments. U.S. rockets and satellites will be instrumented by scientists from D.R.T.E. The satellite is to be launched sometime after 1960 at Vandenberg Air Force Base California, and ...

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