• Interplanetary Monitoring Platform was a program managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as part of the Explorers program...
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    Explorer 35 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 35, (IMP-E, AIMP-2, Anchored IMP-2, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-E), was a spin-stabilized spacecraft built by NASA as part of the Explorer...
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    The interplanetary Internet is a conceived computer network in space, consisting of a set of network nodes that can communicate with each other. These...
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    Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) was launched in 1963 and involved a network of eleven...
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    Explorer 18 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 18, also called IMP-A, IMP-1, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-1 and S-74, was a NASA satellite launched as part of the Explorer program. Explorer...
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    Explorer 33 is also known as Interplanetary Monitoring Platform D (IMP-D) or Anchored Interplanetary Monitoring Platform 1 (AIMP-1). Explorer 33 is similar...
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    particle radiation in the martian environment and monitor low-energy cosmic rays during interplanetary cruise. PGS The Precision Gamma Spectrometer was...
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    Explorer 21 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 21, also called IMP-B, IMP-2 and Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-2, was a NASA satellite launched as part of Explorer program. Explorer 21...
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    Explorer 28 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 28, also called IMP-C, IMP-3 and Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-3, was a NASA satellite launched on 29 May 1965 to study space physics, and...
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  • with solar and galactic particle observations from Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8 (IMP 8). In the years following, Cane and her husband William Erickson...
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    spectroscopy. A cloud of interplanetary dust is visible at night as a faint band called the zodiacal light. Interplanetary space contains the magnetic...
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    ESA Vigil (section Platform)
    ESA Space Weather Office with instruments able to monitor the Sun, its solar corona and interplanetary medium between the Sun and Earth, to provide early...
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    Explorer 41 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    was the seventh satellite launched as part of the overall Interplanetary Monitoring Platform series, though it received the post-launch designation "IMP-5"...
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    and similar ones intended for non-military uses such as environmental monitoring, meteorology, cartography and others. The most common type are Earth imaging...
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    PSLV Orbital Experiment Platform (POEM) also known as PSLV Stage 4 Orbital Platform (PS4-OP) is an orbital micro-gravity test bed based on spent fourth...
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  • on Linux and Windows. NASA Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION)—Written in C; designed to run on a wide variety of platforms; conforms to restrictions...
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    Interstellar travel is expected to prove much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight due to the vast difference in the scale of the involved...
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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) and silicon integrated circuit (IC) chips in the Apollo...
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    Blue Origin New Armstrong would be similar in function to the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System that Elon Musk unveiled at the same conference. In...
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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) and silicon integrated circuit chips in the Apollo Guidance...
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    on understanding its geology and habitability potential. Engineering interplanetary journeys is complicated and the exploration of Mars has experienced...
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    PSLV include India's first lunar probe Chandrayaan-1, India's first interplanetary mission, Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan), India's first space observatory...
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    support of nuclear test monitoring, but four of the 21 modified aircraft performed solely as strategic reconnaissance platforms in Japan and Germany. Three...
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    turned off due to inference with higher priority spacecraft. Interplanetary Monitoring Platform Bourdeau was responsible for a Thermal Ion and Electron Sensor...
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    lander in a low-power mode in July 2022 to continue monitoring for seismic events. NASA continued to monitor InSight until the end of 2022, when the spacecraft...
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    construction of towers with retractable and foldable platforms for vehicle assembly, instrumentation and monitoring. After 2007, the US Air Force leased the complex...
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    (29 August 1989). Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (PDF). NASA. pp. 1, 11, 134. Retrieved 12 August 2019. White, H. D.; Lokerson, D. C. (1971). "The...
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    The NRO declared the launch a success. 2007 also saw ULA's first two interplanetary spacecraft launches using the Delta II; the Phoenix probe was launched...
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    travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the BIS, British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using...
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    biocontainment precautions Hazard – Situation or object that can cause damage Interplanetary contamination – Biological contamination of a planetary body by a space...
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