SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 2 was the public designation for a combination surveillance and solar X-rays and ultraviolet scientific satellite, the second...
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SOLRAD (short for "SOLar RADiation," sometimes presented as "SOLRAD") was an American series of satellites sponsored by the US Navy in a program to continuously...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 1 is the public designation for SOLRAD/GRAB 1, a combination science and surveillance satellite launched into orbit on 22 June...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 3 was a solar X-ray satellite, the third in the SOLRAD program. Developed by the United States Navy's Naval Research Laboratory...
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Solrad 10, also known Explorer 44, NRL-PL 165 and Explorer SE-C, was one of the SOLRAD series designed to provide continuous coverage of wavelength and...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 4B was a solar X-ray, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States...
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the SOLRAD and the GRAB (Galactic Radiation and Background) programs. The satellite was to be orbited along with ionospheric study satellite LOFTI-2, the...
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found application in subsequent surveillance programs. GRAB 2's SOLRAD experiment (SOLRAD 3) also contributed substantially to solar X-ray astronomy....
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SOLRAD 7B was the eighth solar X-Ray monitoring satellite in the SOLRAD series and the fifth to successfully orbit the Earth. It was launched via Thor...
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SOLRAD 7A was the seventh solar X-ray monitoring satellite in the SOLRAD series, and the fourth to successfully orbit the Earth. It was boosted into orbit...
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SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 6 (also called SOLRAD 6A) was the sixth solar X-ray monitoring satellite in the United States Navy's SOLRAD series, the third...
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The SOLRAD 8,Explorer 30 or SE-A satellite was one of the NASA SOLRAD (Solar Radiation) program that began in 1960 to provide continuous coverage of solar...
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Canaveral, and Thor-Ablestar 2 rockets were launched from LC-75-1 at Vandenberg Space Force Base (now designated SLC-2). Nineteen Thor-Ablestar were...
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humor without logic, though Peter Gallagher claimed in an interview with SOLRAD that "I'm not just doing stuff that doesn't make any sense at all". Starting...
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Thor DM-21 Ablestar Thor 283 Ablestar 006 CCAFS LC-17B Transit 3A GRAB-2 (Solrad-2) Navigation ELINT LEO Failure Premature Thor cutoff. RSO. Debris fell...
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retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.1e+02 solRad" VizeR page for S Orionis, retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad" Humphreys, Roberta M.; VY Canis Majoris:...
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Intended: Low Earth Navigation Technology 30 November Launch failure Solrad 2 (GRAB-2) US Navy/NRL Intended: Low Earth Radiation research ELINT Destroyed...
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SLC-3W Vandenberg SLC-10W Tanegashima SLC-N Johnston LE-1 Johnston LE-2 10 20 30 40 50 1960 '61 '62 '63 '64 '65 '66 '67 '68 '69 Success Partial...
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Electronic reconnaissance Signals intelligence, intercepts stray radio waves. SOLRAD is the earliest known. Optical imaging surveillance Earth imaging satellites...
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2020). "Soaking In 'The People's Jacuzzi': Notes On Joe Sacco's Satire". Solrad: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics. Comics by Sacco 2006 report on...
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Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016). Retrieved 22 August 2022. "The Solrad 11A/B Satellites". NASA's HEASARC: Observatories. Retrieved 5 June 2024...
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successful tests of a satellite navigation system. June 22 – The U.S. Navy SOLRAD 1 Galactic Radiation and Background program satellite is successfully launched...
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launched on 26 April, carried the Solrad 4B satellite. It failed to reach orbit. Following this launch, the Scout X-2 was replaced by the upgraded Scout...
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Launch history Status Inactive Launches 69 First launch 26 April 1962 Scout X-2 / Solrad 4B Last launch 9 May 1994 Scout G-1 / MSTI-2...
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Stage 0: 25.91 m Stage 1: 22.28 m Stage 2: 7.9 m Stage 3: 4.57 m Diameter: Stage 0: 3.05 m Stage 1: 3.05 m Stage 2: 3.05 m Stage 3: 3.05 m Mass: Stage 0:...
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Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature, was glowingly reviewed in Solrad, and in Compulsive Reader, which describes the editors as "deserving copious...
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History of X-ray astronomy (section The USA V-2 period)
program (SOLRAD) was conceived in the late 1950s to study the Sun's effects on Earth, particularly during periods of heightened solar activity. Solrad 1 was...
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allowing crew to be loaded onto Crew Dragon 2 capsules along with late payload changes on Cargo Dragon 2 capsules. Because SLC-40 lacked an access arm...
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Injun (satellite) (redirect from Injun 2)
the NASA. In spite of various hardware difficulties and the loss of Injun 2 due to an upper stage failure, the program was generally successful. In particular...
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Results". Master Catalog Search. NASA NSSDC. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2010. Wade, Mark. "T-7". astronautix.com. Retrieved...
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