Возвращаемый Аппарат, lit. 'Return Vehicle', GRAU index 11F74), or VA spacecraft, was a Soviet crew capsule, intended to serve as a crewed launch and...

Station. The TKS spacecraft consisted of two spacecraft mated together, both of which could operate independently: The VA spacecraft (known mistakenly...

up VA or Va in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. VA, Va and variants may refer to: Vä, Sweden, a village Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA) Virginia...

Soviets developed several spacecraft for support roles—the VA spacecraft, the Functional Cargo Block and the TKS spacecraft—which they planned to use...

Salyut space station program. The TKS spacecraft was formed by mating a FGB with a VA spacecraft, with both the VA and the FGB being capable of independent...

according to reports published by cybersecurity firm SentinelOne. 17K-AM VA spacecraft Strela (rocket) UR-100 UR-200 P-70 Ametist (NATO codename: SS-N-7 Starbright)...

A reusable spacecraft is a class of spacecraft that have been designed with repeated launch, orbit, deorbit and atmospheric reentry in mind. This contrasts...

direct-descent lunar lander program. The spacecraft consisted of the following modules: ADU Emergency Engine Unit VA Capsule (crew module) PAB Equipment-Rocket...

Almaz. Excalibur Almaz was designing a spacecraft based on the VA capsule hull from the TKS spacecraft. The VA is a space capsule from the Soviet space...

Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions. Cygnus was developed by Orbital Sciences...

Merkur (train), an express train in Europe Merkur spacecraft, the name given in the West to the VA spacecraft MV Merkur (1924), a passenger cargo vessel Merkur...

only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. In August 2018, NASA confirmed, based on results by the New Horizons spacecraft, the...

more complex than any previous crewed spacecraft. In October 1963, Joseph F. Shea was named Apollo Spacecraft Program Office (ASPO) manager, responsible...

on-site. Langley was also considered a potential site for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center prior to the eventual selection of Houston, Texas. Established...

"fastest spacecraft" depends on the reference frame used. Because of the influence of gravity, maximum velocities are usually attained when a spacecraft is...

family) Atlas I Atlas II Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta...

(inclination ≥ 5°)   Geostationary Orbit (inclination < 5°)   Crewed spacecraft Indian space missions began in the 1970s, with Soviet assistance in launching...

composed of four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. As a replacement for the original Cluster spacecraft which were lost in a launch...

May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the...

the Galileo spacecraft made six passes between 1996 and 2000; and the Juno spacecraft performed two flybys in 2019 and 2021. No spacecraft has yet orbited...

Gruntman, Mike (2004). Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry. Reston, VA: AIAA. p. 326. ISBN 9781563477058. "TheSpaceRace.com – Glossary...

spacecraft to be launched, and as such it carries several experimental communications systems in addition to its commercial payload. The spacecraft had...

communications terminal. The mission ended on April 18, 2014, when the spacecraft's controllers intentionally crashed LADEE into the far side of the Moon...

time by Luna 3 in (7 October 1959). In 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to achieve a controlled soft landing, while Luna 10 became the first mission...

practical problems concerning the motion of rockets, satellites, and other spacecraft. The motion of these objects is usually calculated from Newton's laws...

uprated J52-P-408 engine. This variant had entered service in 1974 with VA-55/VA-164/VA-212 on the final USS Hancock cruise and had been the variant that the...

and to obtain measurements that cannot yet be performed from a robotic spacecraft: Morphological surface properties Environment conditions (e.g. dust, gravity...

rockets remain the only way to launch spacecraft into orbit and beyond. They are also used to rapidly accelerate spacecraft when they change orbits or de-orbit...

the FGB component of a TKS vehicle launched on April 25, 1981. The spacecraft's VA return capsule separated and landed in the Soviet Union on May 26,...

spaceplane designs in all but lift-to-drag ratio for less cost. The Soyuz spacecraft is an example. Most capsules have used an ablative heat shield for reentry...