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    Helios-A and Helios-B (after launch renamed Helios 1 and Helios 2) are a pair of probes that were launched into heliocentric orbit to study solar processes...
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  • Look up Helios, helio, or helio- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. Helios or Helio may also...
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    Voyager and Viking planetary probes and the joint West Germany-U.S. Helios spacecraft. All seven launches were conducted from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
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  • masses from one nanogram to tens of micrograms. The Pioneer 10 and Helios spacecraft observations in the 1970s revealed zodiacal light to be scattered...
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  • Helios 2 may refer to: Helios (spacecraft), the 1976 German-American Helios 2 space probe Helios 2 (satellite), the 2004 European Helios 2 military satellites...
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  • (missile) MILAN Roland (missile) Helios (spacecraft) Symphonie EURECA Shuttle pallet satellite Spacelab Saenger (spacecraft) MBTA Commuter Rail BTC-3 and...
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    The Helios 1 and 2 spacecraft each carried two dust instruments to characterize the Zodiacal dust cloud inside the Earth’s orbit down to spacecraft positions...
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    the earliest spacecraft to measure ionospheric and magnetospheric VLF waves, non-operational but still orbiting Earth. Helios (spacecraft) MESSENGER (MErcury...
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    Greek helios comes the rare adjective heliac (/ˈhiːliæk/). In English, the Greek and Latin words occur in poetry as personifications of the Sun, Helios (/ˈhiːliəs/)...
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    A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications,...
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  • open up far away orbits with Helios kick stage". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-02-22. Berger, Eric (2024-01-17). "Meet Helios, a new class of space tug with...
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    Hélios 1A and Hélios 1B were French military photo-reconnaissance satellites in which Italy and Spain also participated. Hélios 1A was launched from the...
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    Heliocentric orbit (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    the radial-velocity method. The helio- prefix is derived from the Greek word "ἥλιος", meaning "Sun", and also Helios, the personification of the Sun in...
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  • to be launched in 2028. It will consist of nine satellites ("one hub spacecraft and eight co-orbiting small satellites"), that will measure solar wind...
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    can continue to function. Spaceflight portal Cluster (spacecraft) Heliophysics Helios (spacecraft) Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), launched in...
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    Helios is a design for a spacecraft propulsion system such that small (0.1 kiloton) nuclear bombs would be detonated in a chamber roughly 30 feet (9.1 m)...
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  • making it the first sub-orbital spaceflight. Helios-A and Helios-B (after launch renamed Helios 1 and Helios 2) are a pair of probes that were launched...
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  • The Helios 2 system, which consists of the Helios 2A and Helios 2B, is a French-developed military Earth observation satellite program. Financed at 90%...
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    Parker Solar Probe (category Spacecraft launched by Delta IV rockets)
    kilometres (26.55 million miles) from the Sun's surface, was set by the Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976. At its perihelion on 27 September 2023, the PSP's...
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    List of uncrewed NASA missions (category Uncrewed spacecraft)
    crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. Helios I and Helios II, also known as Helios-A and Helios-B, were a pair of space probes launched into heliocentric...
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  • Astrium (category Spacecraft manufacturers)
    (Afristar, Asiastar, Worldstar 3) Yahsat 1A & 1B CSO (forthcoming) Essaim Helios 1B Helios 2A Manpack Master Scot Skynet 4/NATO IV Skynet 5 SATCOM BW2 Spirale...
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    the Orion method. AIMStar Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion Helios (propulsion system) NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application)...
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  • inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft and spacecraft. Piccard and Jeannette Ridlon met at the University of Chicago where he...
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    Selene (category Women of Helios)
    in the male deity and Selene's brother Helios. It seems however that unlike the Dawn (Eos) and the Sun (Helios), the Moon had very little importance in...
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    Galileo and Ulysses Dust Detectors (category Spacecraft instruments)
    Physics (MPIK), Heidelberg (Germany) on the HEOS 2 satellite and the Helios spacecraft a new dust instrument was developed by a Team of Scientists and Engineers...
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    The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Wind satellite is a NASA science spacecraft designed to study radio waves and plasma that occur in the solar wind and...
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    Āditya IPA: [aːd̪it̪jɐ] 'Sun', L1 'Lagrange Point 1') is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by the Indian...
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    composition, as well as the location and abundance of lunar water. The spacecraft was launched from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre...
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  • STEREO spacecraft in deep space. The concept was first demonstrated in the 1980s via detailed post-processing of photometer data from the two HELIOS spacecraft...
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    Cosmic Dust Analyzer (category Spacecraft instruments)
    probes and the more complex dust analyzers on the Helios spacecraft, the Giotto and VeGa spacecraft to Halley's Comet. The new dust analyzer system was...
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