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    The Halley Armada is the name of a series of space probes, five of which were successful, sent to examine Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through...
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    Suisei (spacecraft) (category Missions to Halley's Comet)
    the Halley Armada together with Sakigake, the Soviet Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet...
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    Giotto (spacecraft) (category Missions to Halley's Comet)
    from the comet. The coordinated group of probes became known as the Halley Armada. The cylindrical spacecraft was 1.85 m in diameter and had three internal...
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    mid-2061. Officially designated 1P/Halley, it is also commonly called Comet Halley, or sometimes simply Halley. Halley's periodic returns to the inner Solar...
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    Sakigake (category Missions to Halley's Comet)
    the Halley Armada together with Suisei, the Soviet Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet...
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    Vega program (category Missions to Halley's Comet)
    missions, the Vega probes became part of the Halley Armada, a group of space probes that studied Halley's Comet during its 1985/1986 perihelion. Vega 1...
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    Comet (redirect from Halley-type comet)
    C/2012 S1 (ISON). The Halley Armada describes the collection of spacecraft missions that visited and/or made observations of Halley's Comet 1980s perihelion...
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    Vega 2 (category Missions to Halley's Comet)
    with Vega 1) was a Soviet space probe part of the Vega program to explore Halley's comet and Venus. The spacecraft was a development of the earlier Venera...
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    scale Torino scale Space probes Dawn Deep Impact HAMMER AIDA Hera DART Halley Armada Hayabusa Hayabusa2 MASCOT NEAR Shoemaker NEA Scout New Horizons OSIRIS-REx...
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    Vega 1 (category Missions to Halley's Comet)
    first two letters from the Russian words for Venus (Венера: "Venera") and Halley (Галлея: "Galleya"). The craft was powered by twin large solar panels and...
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    spacecraft is also depicted as the duo's grandfather, whereas others in the Halley Armada as well as NASA's Deep Impact and Stardust spacecraft are depicted as...
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    aimed at performing the first comet flyby, of Comet Halley. Part of the canonical Halley Armada. GIOVE-A, launched December 2005 – Demonstration mission...
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    The arrival of Halley's Comet in 1986 was met by a series of Soviet, Japanese and European Space Agency (ESA) probes, namely Halley Armada. After a six-year...
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    Comet Halley in late March 1986, when other spacecraft were near the comet on their early-March comet rendezvous missions. (This "Halley Armada" included...
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    conducted the first comet fly-by (21P/Giacobini-Zinner) before joining the Halley Armada studying the famous comet. The Deep Impact probe smashed into 9P/Tempel...
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    international effort known as the "Halley Armada", provides the first ever close up images of a comet, the Halley's Comet. 1988 – Martin Duncan, Thomas...
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    solid-propellant rocket of its kind, and left Earth's gravity carrying the Halley Armada satellites Sakigake and Suisei. M-3SII established the technology for...
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    Chang'e 2 Clementine† CONTOUR† Deep Impact EPOXI Deep Space 1 Galileo Halley Armada Giotto Sakigake Suisei Vega 1 Vega 2 International Cometary Explorer...
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  • mission, would have been used to examine Halley's Comet in conjunction with the uncrewed probes of the Halley Armada. The Astro-1 mission, and most of the...
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    omens foreboding disaster and turmoil, for example the 1066 passage of Halley's Comet depicted as heralding the Norman conquest of England. As the science...
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    Caña - Flor de Caña Spresso". www.flordecana.com. Retrieved 2020-06-26. Halley, N. (2005). The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink: An A-Z of Alcoholic Beverages...
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  • of the inner planets, as well as new theories of the motions of comet 1P/Halley and the satellites of Mars. JPL · 9733 9737 Dudarova 1986 SC2 Veronica Borisovna...
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     p. 87. Treves, pp. 289–295. Halley, Edmond; Thrower, Norman Joseph William (1981). The three voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698–1701. Hakluyt...
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    moderna (in Spanish) (19). Barcelona, Spain: 117–120. ISSN 0211-9587. Halley's Bible Handbook, 24th ed. 1965. "Tachtigjarige Oorlog §1. Historische problematiek"...
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  • She worked on a detailed catalogue of stars along the path of comet 1P/Halley, and this contributed to the success of the space missions Vega and Giotto...
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    thought to imply a 1758 dating because that date matched a visit from Halley's Comet, and would make him close to the age that Francisco de Paula Marín...
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    Triton, Guillemott Teal FPSO Anasuria Tanker Apr 2000 Jan 1997 Dana Shell Halley 30/12b Talisman Hamish 15/21b Amerada Hess Hannay 20/5c Talisman Harrier...
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  • (Pantomime) (5 stamps), 19 November Industry Year (4 stamps), 14 January Halley's Comet (4 stamps), 18 February 60th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II (4 stamps...
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    Kingdom of Naples. Juan remained in the service of the Spanish Navy (the Armada) for the rest of his life. In light of the long-running debate between Cartesians...
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    first time that a comet was visited by two probes on separate occasions (1P/Halley had been visited by several probes within a few weeks in 1986), and it provided...
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