The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989. Its mission objectives were to map the surface...
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progressive rock band "Magellan", a 1971 novelty song by Yoyoy Villame Magellan (spacecraft), a NASA uncrewed space mission to Venus Giant Magellan Telescope in...
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Magellan spacecraft data over a 500-day period is smaller than the rotation period measured during the 16-year period between the Magellan spacecraft...
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Project Magellan (a Cold War-era US Navy project to circumnavigate the world by submarine), and NASA's Magellan spacecraft. Even though Magellan did not...
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Martin Marietta (section Spacecraft)
(rocket family) Atlas I Atlas II Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta...
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Transactions. 4055 Magellan, an asteroid discovered in 1985 Magellanic spiral, a type of small galaxy Magellanic Catalogue of Stars Magellan (spacecraft), a probe...
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Flight spare (category Spacecraft components)
nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 2020-10-18. "The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide, Chapter 4: The Magellan Spacecraft". nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 2020-10-18. Orbit...
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STS-30 (category Spacecraft which reentered in 1989)
primary payload, the Magellan spacecraft with its attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), was successfully deployed later that day. Magellan was the first American...
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the first flight around Venus by the Magellan spacecraft. Another image was taken on July 23, 1991 as the Magellan revolved around Venus for the second...
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Aerobraking (category Spacecraft propulsion)
the extended Venusian mission of the Magellan spacecraft. It was used to circularize the orbit of the spacecraft in order to increase the precision of...
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Water on Venus (section Spacecraft discoveries)
missions, and from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter probe, Magellan spacecraft and many more Venus studying spacecraft proved that Venus was the complete opposite....
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stations, various upper stages, and discarded Space Shuttle external tanks. Spacecraft may change mass over time such as by use of propellant. During the Shuttle–Mir...
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component of that planet's ice caps. On Venus, observations from the Magellan spacecraft revealed the presence a metallic substance, which precipitates as...
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Mons. The study analyzed images taken between 1990 and 1992 by the Magellan spacecraft. These images, taken eight months apart, displayed changes to the...
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Hughes Aircraft Company (category Spacecraft manufacturers)
Maverick BGM-71 TOW Brazo HS-333 Anik (satellite) Jarvis (rocket) Magellan (spacecraft) Morelos Satellite System Paksat-1 satellite Pioneer program Pioneer...
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Mariner 9, as well as contributing to the missions of the Galileo and Magellan spacecraft. He was often interviewed on television as his enthusiasm for the...
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Russian mission to Venus Mariner 10 – First spacecraft to visit Mercury (1973–1975) Magellan (spacecraft) – NASA orbiter mission to Venus (1989–1994)...
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Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...
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STS-34 (category Spacecraft which reentered in 1989)
deploy a planetary spacecraft, the first being STS-30, which deployed the Magellan spacecraft. Galileo became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer Solar...
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Venus is presented, based on a reanalysis of old images from the Magellan spacecraft. On 24 March, a second study finds that Venus hosts far more volcanoes...
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until 2003. October 13 (UTC) – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere...
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earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died. 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. 1994 – Iran Aseman Airlines...
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New Horizons (redirect from New Horizons (spacecraft))
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study...
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List of uncrewed NASA missions (category Uncrewed spacecraft)
micrometer wavelengths. The Magellan spacecraft was a space probe sent to the planet Venus, the first uncrewed interplanetary spacecraft to be launched by NASA...
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link between Denmark and Germany is expected to be completed. The Giant Magellan Telescope, which is currently under construction, is scheduled for completion...
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impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the Magellan spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of 9.3 kilometres (5.8 mi) and an elevation...
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extraterrestrial environments, synthetic aperture radar aboard the Magellan spacecraft provided detailed topographic maps of Venus, while instruments aboard...
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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/guide4.html#4.11 The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide, Chapter 4 - The Magellan Spacecraft - Computing and Software "RCA...
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The slew of a spacecraft is its orientation in reference to a plane or fixed position such as Earth, the Sun, another celestial body or other point in...
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2685 Masursky (category Minor planets visited by spacecraft)
9, Viking, Pioneer Venus, Voyager, as well as on the Galileo and Magellan spacecraft. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center...
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