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    TacSat-2 is the first in a series of U.S. military experimental technology and communication satellites.TacSat-2 (also known as JWS-D1 ((Joint Warfighting...
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    public domain. "Tacsat-3". Aerospace.org. 30 April 2012. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2013. TacSat-3 Information -...
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    second satellite in the series, TacSat-2, launched before TacSat-1 and this led to the cancellation of TacSat-1's launch. TacSat-1 would have carried a variety...
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    All TacSats have been launched on Minotaur launch vehicles. These series of spacecraft should not be confused with the TACSAT program in 1969. TacSat-1...
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    Busek (section TacSat-2)
    (AFRL) TacSat-2 satellite. The Busek thruster was part of the Microsatellite Propulsion Integration (MPI) Experiment and was integrated on TacSat-2 under...
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    TacSat-4 is the third in a series of U.S. military experimental technology and communication satellites. The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)...
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    Complex 8 at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. Starting with the launch of TacSat-2 in December 2006, launches have also been conducted from Pad 0B at the...
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    spacecraft was 4.2 million kilometers from Earth. In 2011, NASA partnered with Busek to launch the first hall effect thruster aboard the Tacsat-2 satellite....
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    and repeated delays due to Falcon 1 launch failures delayed TacSat-1's launch. After TacSat-2 was launched on an Orbital Sciences Minotaur I on 16 December...
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    launch vehicle that delivered the Air Force TacSat-2 satellite to orbit. In the development of the GeneSat satellite class (at a fraction of what it normally...
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    plans for these launches are unlikely. ALV X-1, 2008 Minotaur I launch (TacSat-3), 2009 Minotaur I on pad (ORS-1), 2011 Gantry at Pad 0B on Sept. 4, 2013...
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    other in a polar orbit (VesselSat-2 and VesselSat-1). In 2007, the U.S. tested space-based AIS tracking with the TacSat-2 satellite. However, the received...
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    first American Hall thruster to fly in space was the Busek BHT-200 on TacSat-2 technology demonstration spacecraft. The first flight of an American Hall...
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    intended to equip the telescope with a CCD camera for Astrophotography. TacSat-2 observation system, an experimental satellite launched in 2006, included...
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  • Observing 1 satellite and the Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC) experiment aboard TacSat-2. The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) is a software experiment...
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    (June 18, 2019). "New Frontiers Program". NASA. Retrieved August 31, 2020. TacSat-1 eoPortal.org University Nanosatellite Program David, Leonard (November...
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    of TacSat-2, TacSat-3, and is current program manager for the development of TacSat-5. They also have contributed experimental sensors to TacSat-4 which...
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  • Field Emission Cathode TacSat-2, FalconSat-5, FalconSat-6, ST-7/LISA Pathfinder. Licensed technology for BPT-4000 aboard AEHF 1, AEHF 2, AEHF 3. Propulsion...
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    used for commercial satellite launches Modified Minotaur IV, Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2), was a suborbital flight to test the Launch Abort System (LAS) of NASA's...
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    Complex-2 (LC-2) (located at 37°50′00″N 75°29′18″W / 37.833266°N 75.4882304°W / 37.833266; -75.4882304 (Wallops Island Launch Complex-2)), a new...
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    H-IIA   Long March 2   Long March 3   Long March 4   Minotaur I   M-V   Molniya-M   Soyuz-U   Soyuz-FG   Soyuz-2   Dnepr   Tsyklon-2   Space Shuttle  ...
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  • (orientation) of the spacecraft. It has a mass of 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) and requires 3.5 W power. TacSat-2 "The Inertial Stellar Compass: A New Direction in...
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  • Electric Propulsion on Satellites". Archived from the original on December 2, 2015. Murthy, P. V. N.; Raghavaiah, Vaddi; Sowjanya, P.; Renuka, R.; Kumar...
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  • non-comprehensive non-exclusionary list of telescopes one yard to less than 2 metres in aperture. Lists of telescopes "Large Zenith Telescope". Atlas Obscura...
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  • avionics bus of this unlaunched satellite was later used on the TacSat-1 satellite. TacSat-1 was never launched, either. Orbcomm-1 or Orbcomm-OG1 satellites...
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  • The MAX-SAT problem is an instance of weighted MAX-SAT where all weights are 1. Randomly assigning each variable to be true with probability 1/2 gives an...
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    Total Access Communication System (TACS) and ETACS are variants of Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) which were announced as the choice for the first...
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  • buses". Space News. 13 August 2012. pp. 16–17. ATK A100 THEMIS; ATK A200 ORS-1, TacSat-3, and Earth Observing-1; ATK A500 DARPA Phoenix; ATK A700 ViviSat...
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    TACOMSAT (also known as TACSAT 1, OPS 0757, or Tactical Communications Satellite) was a communications satellite designed and built by Hughes Aircraft...
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  • Hassim worked for the AIDS Law Project. In 2007, she sat on a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) committee alongside the likes of Andrew Feinstein and...
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