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    The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989. Its mission objectives were to map the surface...
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  • Songs of Distant Earth Magellan (band), a progressive rock band "Magellan", a 1971 novelty song by Yoyoy Villame Magellan (spacecraft), a NASA uncrewed space...
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    Project Magellan (a Cold War-era US Navy project to circumnavigate the world by submarine), and NASA's Magellan spacecraft. Even though Magellan did not...
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    Magellan spacecraft data over a 500-day period is smaller than the rotation period measured during the 16-year period between the Magellan spacecraft...
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  • (rocket family) Atlas I Atlas II Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta...
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    Transactions. 4055 Magellan, an asteroid discovered in 1985 Magellanic spiral, a type of small galaxy Magellanic Catalogue of Stars Magellan (spacecraft), a probe...
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  • the first flight around Venus by the Magellan spacecraft. Another image was taken on July 23, 1991 as the Magellan revolved around Venus for the second...
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    missions, and from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter probe, Magellan spacecraft and many more Venus studying spacecraft proved that Venus was the complete opposite....
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    STS-30 (category Spacecraft which reentered in 1989)
    primary payload, the Magellan spacecraft with its attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), was successfully deployed later that day. Magellan was the first American...
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    Aerobraking (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    the extended Venusian mission of the Magellan spacecraft. It was used to circularize the orbit of the spacecraft in order to increase the precision of...
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    Flight spare (category Spacecraft components)
    nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 2020-10-18. "The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide, Chapter 4: The Magellan Spacecraft". nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 2020-10-18. Orbit...
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    stations, various upper stages, and discarded Space Shuttle external tanks. Spacecraft may change mass over time such as by use of propellant. During the Shuttle–Mir...
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  • impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the Magellan spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of 9.3 kilometres (5.8 mi) and an elevation...
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    component of that planet's ice caps. On Venus, observations from the Magellan spacecraft revealed the presence a metallic substance, which precipitates as...
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    Hughes Aircraft Company (category Spacecraft manufacturers)
    Maverick BGM-71 TOW Brazo HS-333 Anik (satellite) Jarvis (rocket) Magellan (spacecraft) Morelos Satellite System Paksat-1 satellite Pioneer program Pioneer...
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    Russian mission to Venus Mariner 10 – First spacecraft to visit Mercury (1973–1975) Magellan (spacecraft) – NASA orbiter mission to Venus (1989–1994)...
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    surface images of Venus – those gathered 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan spacecraft". skyandtelescope.org. Retrieved 16 April 2023. Hahn, Rebecca M.;...
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    Mons. The study analyzed images taken between 1990 and 1992 by the Magellan spacecraft. These images, taken eight months apart, displayed changes to the...
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  • The slew of a spacecraft is its orientation in reference to a plane or fixed position such as Earth, the Sun, another celestial body or other point in...
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  • until 2003. October 13 (UTC) – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere...
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    NASA's Magellan mission to Venus downlinked 1.2 terabits during its entire mission from 1990 to 1994. During a test on April 8, 2024 the spacecraft transmitted...
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  • Venus is presented, based on a reanalysis of old images from the Magellan spacecraft. On 24 March, a second study finds that Venus hosts far more volcanoes...
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    extraterrestrial environments, synthetic aperture radar aboard the Magellan spacecraft provided detailed topographic maps of Venus, while instruments aboard...
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    Mariner 9, as well as contributing to the missions of the Galileo and Magellan spacecraft. He was often interviewed on television as his enthusiasm for the...
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    Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study...
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  • link between Denmark and Germany is expected to be completed. The Giant Magellan Telescope, which is currently under construction, is scheduled for completion...
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    Pioneer Venus Multiprobe (category Spacecraft launched in 1978)
    throughout the 1980s and the early 1990s. The next major mission was the Magellan spacecraft, which was an orbiter capable of mapping Venus by seeing through...
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    has been practical for spacecraft operating no farther from the Sun than the orbit of Jupiter. For example, Juno, Magellan, Mars Global Surveyor, and...
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  • impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the Magellan spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of 18.5 kilometres (11.5 mi) and an elevation...
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    STS-34 (category Spacecraft which reentered in 1989)
    deploy a planetary spacecraft, the first being STS-30, which deployed the Magellan spacecraft. Galileo became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer Solar...
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