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    it is the central cultural venue in Vitanje, where the family of Herman Potočnik Noordung, the spaceflight pioneer, originates from. KSEVT was officially...
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    Stanford torus (redirect from Space torus)
    Tsiolkovsky ("Bublik-City", 1903), Herman Potočnik (1923) or Wernher von Braun (1952), among others. It consists of a torus, or doughnut-shaped ring, that...
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    consideration to space stations were Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth about two decades apart in the early 20th century. In 1929, Herman Potočnik's The Problem...
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  • Nahum (artist) (category Space artists)
    Elastique ← People ← Cafe OTO". www.cafeoto.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Herman Potočnik Noordung Center of Space Technologies KOSMICA Institute Webpage...
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    the satellite appears. In 1929, Herman Potočnik described both geosynchronous orbits in general and the special case of the geostationary Earth orbit in...
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    In the 1920s, Hermann Oberth and Herman Potocnik, also known as Herman Noordung, described an orbit at an altitude of 35,900 kilometres (22,300 mi) whose...
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  • Syncom (category History of telecommunications)
    kept station at the altitude calculated by Herman Potočnik Noordung in the 1920s. During the first year of Syncom 2 operations, NASA conducted voice,...
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    to avoid collisions. In 1929, Herman Potočnik described both geosynchronous orbits in general and the special case of the geostationary Earth orbit in...
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  • activist. August 27 – Herman Potočnik Noordung (born 1892), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics. November 17 – Herman Hollerith (born 1860)...
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    Interplanetary Space), and then the idea of radio communication by means of those satellites in Herman Potočnik's (written under the pseudonym Hermann Noordung) 1928...
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  • confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the...
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