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- A reaction control system (RCS) is a spacecraft system that uses thrusters to provide attitude control and translation. Alternatively, reaction wheels...9 KB (991 words) - 17:30, 30 August 2024
- Mars Surveyor '98 was a mission in NASA's Mars Exploration Program that launched the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander to the planet Mars...4 KB (431 words) - 16:54, 8 January 2021
- Stonehouse is a comet, designated C/1998 H1, discovered by observer Patrick L. Stonehouse of Wolverine, Michigan, USA. With a maximal brightness of about...994 bytes (90 words) - 16:04, 6 February 2023
- The SETI Institute is a not-for-profit research organization incorporated in 1984 whose mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature...13 KB (1,523 words) - 23:35, 1 September 2024
- In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics a parabolic trajectory is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity equal to 1 and is an unbound orbit that is exactly...7 KB (1,090 words) - 12:30, 23 August 2024
- The Dream is Alive is an American IMAX documentary film, released on June 1, 1985, about NASA's Space Shuttle program. The film was narrated by Walter...7 KB (690 words) - 22:02, 12 September 2024
- Project Phoenix was a SETI project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by analyzing patterns in radio signals. It was run by the independently...2 KB (206 words) - 15:48, 5 April 2023
- Neutron star spin up is the name given to the increase in rotational speed over time first noted in Cen X-3 and Her X-1 but now observed in other X-ray...2 KB (250 words) - 06:56, 13 March 2024
- The following is a chronology of discoveries concerning the magnetosphere. 1600 - William Gilbert in London suggests the Earth is a giant magnet. 1741...7 KB (904 words) - 17:46, 11 September 2024
- Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist. Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents...10 KB (964 words) - 20:53, 12 October 2023
- Wilhelm Wolff Beer (4 January 1797 – 27 March 1850) was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Beer's fame...4 KB (327 words) - 15:45, 22 August 2024
- The International Latitude Service was created by the International Geodetic Association in 1899 to study variations in latitude caused by polar motion...7 KB (732 words) - 18:16, 9 September 2024
- The J-I was a solid-fuel, expendable, small-lift launch vehicle developed by the National Space Development Agency of Japan and the Institute of Space...2 KB (227 words) - 05:19, 6 September 2024
- In optics and photography, infinity focus is the state where a lens or other optical system forms an image of an object an infinite distance away. This...2 KB (228 words) - 03:37, 11 March 2022
- Joseph Brown (December 3, 1733 – December 3, 1785) was an early American industrialist, architect, astronomer, and professor at Brown University. Brown...5 KB (512 words) - 00:33, 29 August 2024
- The 22-metre Mopra Radio Telescope, located near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, operated by CSIRO...3 KB (365 words) - 17:30, 11 September 2023
- Pansharpening is a process of merging high-resolution panchromatic and lower resolution multispectral imagery to create a single high-resolution color...4 KB (498 words) - 00:36, 1 June 2024
- Friedrich Simon Archenhold (2 October 1861 in Lichtenau, Kingdom of Prussia – 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory...6 KB (620 words) - 14:35, 15 September 2024
- George Washington Hough[pronunciation?] (October 24, 1836 – January 1, 1909) was an American astronomer. George Washington Hough was born in Tribes Hill...5 KB (303 words) - 04:37, 8 September 2024
- La Alameda Park is a park in Quito. This park is shaped like a triangle bounded by the streets Gran Colombia, Sodiro and 10 de Agosto. It is the oldest...5 KB (503 words) - 11:34, 30 May 2023