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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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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Orbcomm (satellite) (redirect from Orbcomm OG-2)
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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Maximum satisfiability problem (redirect from MAX-SAT)
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 (redirect from TACS)
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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Mission Extension Vehicle (redirect from MEV-2)
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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