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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 (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 (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) 2 was the public designation for a combination surveillance and solar X-rays and ultraviolet scientific satellite, the second...
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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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    SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 4 was a solar X-rays, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States...
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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. Three...
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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 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 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 (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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    1961-06-29 04:22 Thor 315 Ablestar 008 CCAFS LC-17B Transit 4A, Injun 1, GRAB-3 (Solrad 3) Navigation, Ionospheric, ELINT Success 1961-11-15 22:26 Thor 305 Ablestar...
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    Injun (satellite) (redirect from Injun 3)
    Gunter's Space Page. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2021. "Injun 3". Gunter's Space Page. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2021. "IE B...
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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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    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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  • LC-75   Vandenberg LE-7   Vandenberg LE-8   Arguello LC-1-1 (Vandenberg SLC-3)   Vandenberg PALC-1-1   Vandenberg SLC-1W   Vandenberg SLC-1E   Vandenberg...
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  • spacecraft failure Solrad 3 (GRAB-3) US Navy/NRL Low Earth Radiation ELINT In orbit Partial spacecraft failure Injun-1 and Solrad 3 failed to separate...
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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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    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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  • special example of the grawlix, a symbol resembling the planet Saturn. Solrads: radiating lines drawn from something luminous like a lightbulb or the...
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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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    signals intelligence (ELINT) surveillance package, GGSE-2, GGSE-3, Surcal 2B, SECOR 3, SOLRAD 7B, and Dodedcapole 1) on 9 March 1965 from Vandenberg Air Force...
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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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    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 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: Empty 33,798 kg/ea; Full 226,233 kg/ea...
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    among the largest since records began. It saturated the Solrad 9 X-ray sensor at approximately X5.3 but was estimated to be in the vicinity of X20, the threshold...
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    Rocket And Its Cargo Explode On Launch Pad In Florida". NPR. Retrieved April 3, 2023. Klotz, Irene (2013-08-02). "SpaceX Appetite for U.S. Launch Sites Grows"...
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  • satellite launched simultaneously with four other satellites (including SOLRAD 7A and POPPY 3) on 11 January 1964 by the U.S. military from Vandenberg Air Force...
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    Reconnaissance In orbit Successful 5 March 18:28 Scout-B Wallops LA-3 Explorer 37 (Solrad 9) NASA Low Earth Research 16 November 1990 Successful 6 March 11:02...
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