Viking was Sweden's first satellite. It was launched on an Ariane 1 rocket as a piggyback payload together with the French satellite SPOT 1, on February...
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up Viking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians. Viking or Vikings may also refer to: Viking (comics) Vikings #1...
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Viking was a series of twelve sounding rockets designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
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The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-crew, twin-engine turbofan-powered jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Lockheed...
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Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program...
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The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began...
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officer ordered the rocket destroyed. The satellite was destroyed along with its support, the launched with the Viking Dynamic Simulator. SPHINX stood for Space...
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the satellite was lost. During its 7+1⁄2 months in space, Astrid-2 delivered a large amount of information to researchers. Odin (satellite) Viking (satellite)...
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The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking...
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the Snow Festival, that had started in 1986 to celebrate the Swedish Viking satellite. Since 1998, a special tourist area exists in the mine and since 1999...
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came with the two Viking program landers. When the planet Mars was passing near or behind the Sun, as seen from the Earth, a Viking lander would transmit...
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communications satellite launch". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 30 March 2018. Brügge, Norbert. "India's VIKAS engines and its relationship to the European Viking engines"...
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Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany Spaceflight portal Viking (satellite) "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Trajectory Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa...
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vulnerabilities that led to Viking abandonment of Greenland. Sea-level change thus represents an integral, missing element of the Viking story." According to...
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Akebono (satellite) Suprathermal ion Mass Spectrometer Freja (satellite) Cold Gas Analyser and Auroral Imager Interbol Ultraviolet Auroral Imager Viking (satellite)...
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Project Vanguard (redirect from Vanguard satellite)
built the Viking rockets), developing and installing the satellite tracking system, and designing, constructing, and testing the satellites. The tracking...
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The satellites of Mars include : Non functional but (probably) orbiting: Viking 1 & 2 orbiter Mariner 9 Mars Global Surveyor Mars 2, 3, 5 Phobos 2 Tianwen...
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reservoir, satellite of Halfdan field Kraka oil field - chalk reservoir, satellite of Dan oil field Lulita gas field - sandstone reservoir, satellite of Harald...
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the RTV-N-12a Viking sounding rocket. The RAND Corporation, Air Force and CIA had long pursued the idea of a reconnaissance satellite. Such a program...
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Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta Model 845 AQM-127 SLAT...
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players, while five youth teams were either formed or joined the Vikings' satellite programme this year. The North Durham Knights, Darlington Steam, Cramlington...
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A Viking ring fortress, Trelleborg-type fortress, or trelleborg (pl. trelleborgs), is a type of circular fort of a special design, built in Scandinavia...
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key milestone of Sweden's space activities was its first satellite, named Viking. Work on Viking commenced in January 1978 and benefitted greatly from substantial...
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installations Viking A and Viking B. These also received gas from satellite fields. Gas was transmitted from Viking A to the onshore Viking gas terminal...
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The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation...
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Acidalium quadrangle. Cydonia was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters. Eighteen images of the Cydonia region were taken by the...
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applications e.g. for the broadband electrostatic noise observed by the Viking satellite. A connection between the Schamel equation and the nonlinear Schrödinger...
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Claimed moons of Earth (redirect from Earth's natural satellites)
the existence of other moons of Earth—that is, of one or more natural satellites with relatively stable orbits of Earth, other than the Moon—have existed...
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Phobos (moon) (redirect from Phobos (satellite))
systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877...
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WorldView-3 (category Commercial imaging satellites of the United States)
Satellite images from WorldView-3 were used in 2015 by an international team of archaeologists to discover what they then believed to be a Viking settlement...
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