satellites.: 34 The satellite also carried a Transit on Discoverer (TOD) payload Discoverer 16, the first of the KH-2 series, had failed to reach orbit...
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CORONA (satellite) (redirect from Discoverer 38)
being part of a space technology development program called Discoverer. To the public, Discoverer missions were scientific and engineering missions, the film-return...
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on Discoverer (TOD) payload Discoverer 16, the first of the KH-2 series, had failed to reach orbit after its launch on 26 October 1960. Discoverer 17, the...
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World Discoverer was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. During construction called BEWA Discoverer, the ship...
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There followed eight operational Discoverer satellites, all of them partial or complete failures,: 236 though Discoverer 11, launched 15 April 1960, carried...
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NOAAS Discoverer (R 102), originally USC&GS Discoverer (OSS 02), was an American Oceanographer-class oceanographic research vessel in service in the United...
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Spaceflight portal CORONA (satellite) "Discoverer 1". Day, Dwayne A. (13 April 2009). "Lost over the horizon: Discoverer 1 explores Antarctica". The Space...
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John Russell Hind (redirect from Discoverer of Iris)
and Elizabeth Russell, and was educated at Nottingham High School. At age 17 he went to London to serve an apprenticeship as a civil engineer, but through...
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William Lassell (redirect from Discoverer of Umbriel)
of Liverpool, to Bradstones. In 1846, Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself by German...
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Giuseppe Piazzi (redirect from Discoverer of 1 Ceres)
Piazzi's Flying Star and Bessel's Star. Piazzi discovered Ceres. On 1 January 1801 Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background...
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Discoverer 12, Discoverer 13 carried a newly developed gas motor for spin stabilization to replace the system that had caused the loss of Discoverer 11...
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Discoverer 16, also known as Corona 9011, was an American optical reconnaissance satellite which was lost in a launch failure on 26 October 1960. It was...
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Asaph Hall (redirect from Discoverer of Phobos)
was moving with the planet. "On 17 August while waiting and watching for the outer moon, the inner one was discovered. The observations of the 17th and...
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Clyde Tombaugh (redirect from Discoverer of Pluto)
for the discoverer of Pluto. Falk, Dan, "More than a one-hit wonder", Astronomy, February 2006, 40–45. David H. Levy Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of the...
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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 14 days remain until the end of the year. 497 BC – The first...
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Discover Airlines, legally incorporated as EW Discover GmbH and formerly branded Eurowings Discover, is a German leisure airline headquartered in Frankfurt...
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Andrew Graham (astronomer) (redirect from Discoverer of Metis)
April 1815 – 5 November 1908) was an Irish astronomer, orbit computer and discoverer of the asteroid 9 Metis. In 1842 Graham was appointed to work at Markree...
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the discoverer as used by the MPC (non-diacritical version; where the abbreviated first name is written before the family name). Some discoverers have...
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with the Discover brand are issued by Discover Bank, formerly the Greenwood Trust Company. Discover transactions are processed through the Discover Network...
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The Discoverer (Norwegian: Oppdageren) is a 1999 novel by Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2001. "Nordic...
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Charles T. Kowal (redirect from Discoverer of 95P)
Solar System objects, the centaurs, discovered two moons of the planet Jupiter, and discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids, comets and supernovae...
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Thor-SLV2A Agena-B) First successful launch: 12 November 1960 with Discoverer 17 Last launch: 15 May 1966 with Nimbus 2 Thor-Agena D (Thor-DM21 Agena-D...
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licensees. At this time, Discover Bank has no plans on issuing Diners Club branded cards itself. On September 17, 2010, Discover Financial Services announced...
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into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861)...
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2007-11-01. "DISCover". Dark Watcher's Console History. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Wiley, M. (17 May 2003). "E3 2003: DISCover". IGN. Retrieved...
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verified. The flight and loss of Discoverer 2 was the inspiration for the book and film Ice Station Zebra. "Discoverer" was the civilian designation and...
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successful launch was on 28 February 1959, launching Discoverer 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 Success...
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William Herschel (redirect from Discoverer of Oberon)
eventually given the name of Uranus. This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity, and Herschel became famous overnight. As a result of...
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The first USC&GS Discoverer was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1922 to 1941. Discoverer was laid down as...
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Corona''' satellite, based on an Agena-B. The launch of Discoverer 31 occurred at 21:00 UTC on 17 September 1961. A Thor DM-21 Agena-B rocket was used,...
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