The SOLRAD 8,Explorer 30 or SE-A satellite was one of the NASA SOLRAD (Solar Radiation) program that began in 1960 to provide continuous coverage of solar...
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SOLRAD (short for "SOLar RADiation," sometimes presented as "SOLRAD") was an American series of satellites sponsored by the US Navy in a program to continuously...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 2 was the public designation for a combination surveillance and solar X-rays and ultraviolet scientific satellite, the second...
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Solrad 9, also known Explorer 37 and Explorer SE-B, was one of the SOLRAD (Solar Radiation) program that began in 1960 to provide continuous coverage...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 1 is the public designation for SOLRAD/GRAB 1, a combination science and surveillance satellite launched into orbit on 22 June...
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Solrad 10, also known Explorer 44, NRL-PL 165 and Explorer SE-C, was one of the SOLRAD series designed to provide continuous coverage of wavelength and...
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SOLRAD 7B was the eighth solar X-Ray monitoring satellite in the SOLRAD series and the fifth to successfully orbit the Earth. It was launched via Thor...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 3 was a solar X-ray satellite, the third in the SOLRAD program. Developed by the United States Navy's Naval Research Laboratory...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 4B was a solar X-ray, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States...
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Retrieved 8 April 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. "Explorer Program". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 8 April...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 6 (also called SOLRAD 6A) was the sixth solar X-ray monitoring satellite in the United States Navy's SOLRAD series, the third...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 4 was a solar X-rays, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States...
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humor without logic, though Peter Gallagher claimed in an interview with SOLRAD that "I'm not just doing stuff that doesn't make any sense at all". Starting...
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SOLRAD 7A was the seventh solar X-ray monitoring satellite in the SOLRAD series, and the fourth to successfully orbit the Earth. It was boosted into orbit...
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retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.1e+02 solRad" VizeR page for S Orionis, retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad" Humphreys, Roberta M.; VY Canis Majoris:...
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referred to in its scientific capacity as SOLRAD ("SOLar RADiation").: 142, 149 : 300 The first GRAB satellite, SOLRAD 1, was launched 22 June 1960, on the...
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November 04:48:27 Scout X-4 Wallops Island LA-3A NASA Explorer 30 (Solrad 8/SR-8/SE-A) NASA/NRL Low Earth Solar 20 November 1967 Successful 23 November...
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Electronic reconnaissance Signals intelligence, intercepts stray radio waves. SOLRAD is the earliest known. Optical imaging surveillance Earth imaging satellites...
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Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016). Retrieved 22 August 2022. "The Solrad 11A/B Satellites". NASA's HEASARC: Observatories. Retrieved 5 June 2024...
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1960-06-22 05:54 Thor 281 Ablestar 003 CCAFS LC-17B Transit 2A, GRAB-1 (Solrad 1) Navigation, ELINT Success 1960-08-18 19:58 Thor 262 Ablestar 004 CCAFS...
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2020). "Soaking In 'The People's Jacuzzi': Notes On Joe Sacco's Satire". Solrad: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics. Comics by Sacco 2006 report on...
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(OPS-3165) Success 15 March 1976 01:25 CCAFS LC-40 3C-30 LES-8 LES-9 Solrad-11A Solrad-11B Success 26 June 1976 03:00 CCAFS LC-40 3C-28 DSP-6 (OPS-2112)...
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successful tests of a satellite navigation system. June 22 – The U.S. Navy SOLRAD 1 Galactic Radiation and Background program satellite is successfully launched...
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III 3C-29 IMEWS 5 March 15, 1975 01:25 Titan III 3C-30 LES 8 / LES 9 / Solrad 11A / Solrad 11B June 26, 1976 03:00 Titan III 3C-28 IMEWS 6 February 6...
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11 December 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2021. "IE B (Injun 4, Explorer 25)". Gunter's Space Page. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2021. "IE C (Injun...
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Alfred Hitchcock. June 22 – The United States Naval Research Laboratory SOLRAD 1 Galactic Radiation and Background program satellite is successfully launched...
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August flare was among the largest since records began. It saturated the Solrad 9 X-ray sensor at approximately X5.3 but was estimated to be in the vicinity...
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astronomical observatory, SOLRAD I determined that radio fade-outs were caused by solar X-ray emissions. The first in a series of 8 successfully launched...
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Naval Research Laboratory. GRAB had an unclassified experiment called Solrad, and an ELINT package called Tattletale. Tattletale was also called Canes;...
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GGSE-1 NRL Low Earth Gravity gradient stabilization In orbit Successful Solrad 7A NRL Low Earth Radiation In orbit Successful SECOR-1 (EGRS-1) US Army...
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