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    Viking was Sweden's first satellite. It was launched on an Ariane 1 rocket as a piggyback payload together with the French satellite SPOT 1, on February...
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  • up Viking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians. Viking or Vikings may also refer to: Viking (comics) Vikings #1...
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    Viking was a series of twelve sounding rockets designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
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    The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-crew, twin-engine turbofan-powered jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Lockheed...
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    Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program...
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    The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began...
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    officer ordered the rocket destroyed. The satellite was destroyed along with its support, the launched with the Viking Dynamic Simulator. SPHINX stood for Space...
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  • the satellite was lost. During its 7+1⁄2 months in space, Astrid-2 delivered a large amount of information to researchers. Odin (satellite) Viking (satellite)...
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    The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking...
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    the Snow Festival, that had started in 1986 to celebrate the Swedish Viking satellite. Since 1998, a special tourist area exists in the mine and since 1999...
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  • came with the two Viking program landers. When the planet Mars was passing near or behind the Sun, as seen from the Earth, a Viking lander would transmit...
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    communications satellite launch". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 30 March 2018. Brügge, Norbert. "India's VIKAS engines and its relationship to the European Viking engines"...
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    Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany Spaceflight portal Viking (satellite) "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Trajectory Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa...
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    vulnerabilities that led to Viking abandonment of Greenland. Sea-level change thus represents an integral, missing element of the Viking story." According to...
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  • Akebono (satellite) Suprathermal ion Mass Spectrometer Freja (satellite) Cold Gas Analyser and Auroral Imager Interbol Ultraviolet Auroral Imager Viking (satellite)...
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  • built the Viking rockets), developing and installing the satellite tracking system, and designing, constructing, and testing the satellites. The tracking...
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  • The satellites of Mars include : Non functional but (probably) orbiting: Viking 1 & 2 orbiter Mariner 9 Mars Global Surveyor Mars 2, 3, 5 Phobos 2 Tianwen...
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    reservoir, satellite of Halfdan field Kraka oil field - chalk reservoir, satellite of Dan oil field Lulita gas field - sandstone reservoir, satellite of Harald...
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  • the RTV-N-12a Viking sounding rocket. The RAND Corporation, Air Force and CIA had long pursued the idea of a reconnaissance satellite. Such a program...
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    A Viking ring fortress, Trelleborg-type fortress, or trelleborg (pl. trelleborgs), is a type of circular fort of a special design, built in Scandinavia...
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  • Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta Model 845 AQM-127 SLAT...
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    players, while five youth teams were either formed or joined the Vikings' satellite programme this year. The North Durham Knights, Darlington Steam, Cramlington...
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  • key milestone of Sweden's space activities was its first satellite, named Viking. Work on Viking commenced in January 1978 and benefitted greatly from substantial...
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  • installations Viking A and Viking B. These also received gas from satellite fields. Gas was transmitted from Viking A to the onshore Viking gas terminal...
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    The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation...
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    Acidalium quadrangle. Cydonia was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters. Eighteen images of the Cydonia region were taken by the...
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  • applications e.g. for the broadband electrostatic noise observed by the Viking satellite. A connection between the Schamel equation and the nonlinear Schrödinger...
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    systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877...
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    Satellite images from WorldView-3 were used in 2015 by an international team of archaeologists to discover what they then believed to be a Viking settlement...
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  • fields parallel to the geomagnetic field lines was obtained by the Viking satellite, which measures the differential potential structures in the magnetosphere...
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