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    The Transit system, also known as NAVSAT or NNSS (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally...
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  • Look up transit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transit may refer to: Transit (1980 film), a 1980 Israeli film Transit (1986 film), a Canadian short...
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    a small percentage of people with melanoma. Intralesional IL-2 for in-transit metastases has a high complete response rate ranging from 40 to 100%. Similarly...
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    launch of the Doppler satellite Transit-1B and the balloon satellites Echo 1, Echo 2, and PAGEOS. The first dedicated geodetic satellite was ANNA-1B, a collaborative...
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    has related news: NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program...
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    The Transit Research and Attitude Control (TRAAC) satellite was launched by the U. S. Navy from Cape Canaveral along with Transit 4B on November 15, 1961...
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  • development of the guidance, navigation, and control of the U.S. Navy's Transit satellite system at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories. TRIAD represented...
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    A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including...
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    passing over Cuba. The launch of a Transit satellite on 22 February 1961 was successful, but its companion Lofti satellite failed to separate from the second...
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  • Soviet satellite navigation system including ten Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. It transmitted the same two carrier frequencies as the U.S. TRANSIT satellite...
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  • zombie satellites is Transit 5B-5. It was launched in 1965 as part of the Transit system, one of the first satellite navigation systems. Transit 5B-5 is...
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    conceived as purely civilian. In 1960, the US Navy put into service its Transit satellite-based navigation system to aid in naval navigation. The US Navy in...
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    latitude. Data collection satellite DORIS (satellite) Transit (satellite), which also used Doppler navigation, but with satellite transmitters and ground-based...
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    also made for a satellite to occult bright X-ray sources, called an X-ray Occulting Steerable Satellite or XOSS. Astronomical transit (also for occultations...
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    using known satellite orbits to determine an unknown position on the Earth's surface began to be explored. This led to the TRANSIT satellite navigation...
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    correlated to the transit of a Starlink satellite train, launched a week earlier. SpaceX representatives and Musk have claimed that the satellites will have minimal...
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  • In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is the passage of a celestial body directly between a larger body and the observer. As viewed from a...
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    techniques were also used in the U.S. Navy's historical Transit satellite navigation system, with satellite transmitters and ground-based receivers, and are...
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    providing a fix. The first satellite navigation system was Transit, a system deployed by the US military in the 1960s. Transit's operation was based on the...
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    rockets placed two Transit satellites in orbit with a single launch. The last of these, on 1988-08-25, launched Transit-O 31 and Transit O-25 on a Scout...
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    for installment on submarines. A predecessor to the GPS satellite navigation system, the Transit system (later called NAVSAT), was developed because the...
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    The SEA Underground, formerly called the Satellite Transit System (STS), is an automated people mover (APM) system operating in the Seattle–Tacoma International...
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    astronomical transit A solar transit (also called a solar outage, sometimes solar fade, sun outage, or sun fade) also occurs to communications satellites, which...
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    system, as they were in the process of introducing the TRANSIT satellite navigation system. TRANSIT was designed to allow measurements of location at any...
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    transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel...
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    departures) and Gates 20–39 (Satellite 2 arrivals and departures). Satellite 3 (Gates 40–59) is not served by the Transit System; instead a pedestrian...
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    Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT) or heavy rail, commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally...
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    videos of the transit as seen by the TRACE satellite Archive of observations in Bangalore Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus The Transit of Venus:...
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    Taipei and its surrounding satellite towns, with over eight million trips made daily. The idea of constructing a rapid transit system on the island was...
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    Starlink satellites can flare repeatedly in an isolated area of the sky, typically directly above the sun (below the horizon) as they transit the highest...
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