MASER is a sounding rocket that is used in the MASER microgravity research rocket programme, operated by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). The main...
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A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves. Maser may also refer to: Maser (rocket), a sounding rocket launched from Esrange in Sweden...
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Gravity Probe A (redirect from Scout rocket experiment)
the rocket and in addition was gravitationally Doppler blue-shifted by a minute amount. In addition to the hydrogen maser carried by the rocket, another...
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Thrust(max. in vacuum): 500 kN Texus Maser Rexus Esrange Shutte, Andreas; Grothe, Dieter (2 June 2005). "Sounding Rocket Program: Minitexus, Texus, Maxus"...
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Aerospace Centre (DLR). MASER, Swedish rocket programme at Esrange for ESA microgravity research programmes. MAXUS, German-Swedish rocket programme at Esrange...
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Laser (redirect from Optical maser)
"lasing". The terms laser and maser are also used for naturally occurring coherent emissions, as in astrophysical maser and atom laser. A laser that produces...
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article constitutes a list of rocket launch sites. Some of these sites are known as spaceports or cosmodromes. A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion...
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Flight Experiment): Program of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) MASER: Sounding rocket program of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), for microgravity...
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2021. Andrew Parsonson [@AndrewParsonson] (20 March 2024). "Update on the MASER 16 mission: The flight, which had been planned for the beginning of next...
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Esrange (category Rocket launch sites in Sweden)
integrating the Maser microgravity programme. More than 500 rockets have been launched from Esrange since 1966. For information on individual rockets, see the...
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VSB-30 (category Sounding rockets of Brazil)
designation of a Brazilian sounding rocket, which replaced the Skylark rocket at Esrange. The VSB-30 is based on the VS-30 rocket (S-30 engine) with the addition...
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Beam-powered propulsion (section Laser thermal rocket)
directly (or via a heat exchanger) heat propellant on the spacecraft with a maser or a laser beam from a fixed installation. This permits the spacecraft to...
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Rexus/Bexus (section REXUS rocket)
The REXUS/BEXUS (Rocket Experiments for University Students / Balloon Experiments for University Students) programme is a cooperation between the German...
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This is a list of rockets launched from the Esrange rocket range in northern Sweden. "List of all rocket launches from Esrange Space Center" (PDF). Archived...
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TEXUS (category Sounding rockets)
retirement in 2005, TEXUS launches switched to the Brazilian VSB-30 rocket. Maxus Maser Rexus Esrange "Europe prepares new technologies for future launchers"...
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the other shareholders. The first rocket was launched in March 1999. On March 17, 2006, it was announced that Jim Maser, the President and General Manager...
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2025 in spaceflight (section By rocket)
Maia – MaiaSpace – Europe Neutron – Rocket Lab – USA Nova – Stoke Space – USA Prime – Orbex – UK RFA One – Rocket Factory Augsburg – Germany Skyrora XL...
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consist of launches of sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons, tests of future generation rocket engines and new rocket fuels, operation and maintenance...
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Marshall Space Flight Center (redirect from Marshall Rocket Center)
launched by a Delta rocket in May 1976. Gravity Probe A, also called the Redshift Experiment, used an extremely precise hydrogen maser clock to confirm part...
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boost the thrust by aiming ground-based lasers or masers at the sail. Ground-based lasers or masers can also help a light-sail spacecraft to decelerate:...
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down to the robot. Its armaments include a Twin Maser Cannon in its mouth, railguns on its hands, a maser blade on its right hand, two reactors on its back...
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run one hydrogen maser clock in primary mode and a rubidium clock as hot backup. Under normal conditions, the operating hydrogen maser clock produces the...
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Suborbital spaceflight in 2008 (redirect from MASER-11)
reported to have occurred on 8 May. Maser 11 was a European sounding rocket mission, launched by a VSB-30 rocket at 04:00 UTC on 15 May. The launch occurred...
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2027 in spaceflight (section By rocket)
program aims to launch the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) nuclear thermal rocket. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aims...
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concepts of the Lightcraft replace the laser pulses by a microwave beam or maser that can still be ground-based, or alternatively put into orbit, the beams...
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robot mode, he can lift 70,000 tons, has shoulder-mounted twin high-energy maser cannons and omni-directional receiving and transmitting antenna. In city...
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fundamental research in quantum electronics that led to the creation of masers and lasers. He is also honorary director of the A. M. Prokhorov General...
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it. Masers spread out more rapidly than optical lasers owing to their longer wavelength, and so would not have as great an effective range. Masers could...
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was completed in 20 minutes during the next day. Observations of hydroxyl masers and pulsars at 1.6 GHz Detection of interference fringes for quasar PKS1519-273...
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2012 in spaceflight (section By rocket)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2013. "MASER 12 - successfully launched". SSC. 13 February 2012. Archived from the original...
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