Magellan probe - Magellan probe The Magellan spacecraft was named after the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan was the first planetary spacecraft to be launched by a space shuttle when it was carried aloft by the shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 1989, on a mission designated STS-30. Atlantis took Magellan into low Earth orbit, where it was released from the shuttle's cargo bay. A solid-fuel motor called the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) then fired, sending Magellan on a 15-month cruise looping around the Sun 1-1/2 times before it arrived at Venus on August 10, 1990. A solid-fuel motor on Magellan then fired, placing the spacecraft in orbit around Venus. Mission overview Magellan's initial orbit was highly elliptical, taking it as close as.
Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes - - Luna 1 flyby launched, it discovered solar wind 1959 - Moon - Pioneer 4 flyby 1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 2 lander launched, it was the first spacecraft to impact onto he surface of the moon 1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 3 flyby launched, it returned the first image of the Moon's hidden side 1960 - Mars - Failure - Mars 1960A probe 1960 - Mars - Failure - Mars 1960B probe 1961 - Venus - Failure - 1VA (proto-Venera) flyby 1961 - Venus - Failure - Venera 1 flyby 1962 - Venus - Success - Mariner 2 launched and became the first satellite to return data about Venus 1962 - Earth - Success - Telstar 1 is launched 1962 - Earth - Success - Alouette.
Magellan - Magellan Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer the Magellan probe, a NASA unmanned space mission to Venus This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Venus (planet) - the same face toward Earth when the two planets are at their closest approach (5.001 Venusian days between each inferior conjunction). This may be the result of tidal locking, with tidal forces affecting Venus's rotation whenever the planets get close enough together, or it may simply be a coincidence. Venus has two major continent-like highlands on its surface, rising over vast plains. The northern highland is named Ishtar Terra and has Venus's highest mountains, named the Maxwell Montes after James Clerk Maxwell, which surround the plateau Lakshmi Planum. Ishtar Terra is about the size of Australia. In the southern hemisphere is the larger Aphrodite Terra, about the size of South America. Between these highlands are a number of broad depressions, including Atalanta Planitia, Guinevere Planitia, and Lavinia Planitia. With only the.
1994 - that Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son, is the key player in efforts by the Iraqi government to hide the country's alleged illegal weapons. June 13 - NFL star OJ Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered outside Nicole's house in Brentwood, California June 15 - The currently second biggest grossing animated film of all-time, The Lion King, opens in theatres nationwide. June 17 - NFL star OJ Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which unfolds live on television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood, California, where he then surrendered to police. July - The planet Jupiter is pelted by 21 large fragments of a comet over the course of 6 days. July 7.
August 10 - - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. 1492 - Alexander VI is elected Pope. 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. 1792 - French Revolution: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody. 1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain. 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson. 1856 - In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people. 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in.
Timeline of planetary exploration - May 1965 - Lunar Impact (Attempted Soft Landing) Luna 6 - 8 June 1965 - Attempted Lunar Lander Zond 3 - 18 July 1965 - Lunar Flyby Luna 7 - 4 October 1965 - Lunar Impact (Attempted Soft Landing) Venera 2 - 12 November 1965 - Venus Flyby (Contact Lost) Venera 3 - 16 November 1965 - Venus Lander (Contact Lost) 1st Venus Impact Cosmos 96 - 23 November 1965 - Attempted Venus Lander? Venera 1965A - 23 November 1965 - Attempted Venus Flyby (Launch Failure) Luna 8 - 3 December 1965 - Lunar Impact (Attempted Soft Landing?) 1966 Luna 9 - 31 January 1966 - 1st Lunar Lander Cosmos 111 - 1 March 1966 - Attempted Lunar Orbiter? Luna 10 - 31 March 1966 - 1st Lunar Orbiter Luna 1966A.
October 12 - Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. 1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the United States Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition. 1968 - 1968 Summer Olympics open in Mexico City, Mexico. 1970 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas. 1972 - En route to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors brakes out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors are injured. 1976 - The People's Republic of China announces that.
November 28 - 5 See also Events 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan). 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning}" (later known as the Royal Society). 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, 18 year-old William Shakespeare and 26 year-old Anne Hathaway pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license (Shakespeare would later become one of the greatest playwrights in history). 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of.
Galileo probe - Galileo probe Galileo probe being deployed during the STS 34 flight (NASA) Galileo was an unmanned probe sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moonss. Named after the astronomer and Renaissance man Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis and arrived at Jupiter on December 7 1995. On September 21, 2003, after 14 years of flight time and 8 years of service in the Jovian system, Galileo's mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere at a speed of nearly 50 kilometres per second to avoid any chance of it contaminating local moons with bacteria from Earth. Of particular concern was the ice-crusted moon Europa, which, thanks to Galileo, scientists now suspect harbors a.
Ferdinand Magellan - Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães (circa 1470 - April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese sea explorer who sailed for Spain. He was the first to sail from Europe westwards to Asia, and he named the Pacific Ocean. He is also remembered as the first to circumnavigate the globe, although not in a single voyage: in an earlier voyage he sailed to Indonesia 1511, and in his last voyage he reached the same longitude from the opposite direction. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Born to the nobility 2 Dismissal from the Portuguese court 3 His project: to sail around the world 4 The voyage around the world 5 The ships in 1519 6 The first man to circumnavigate the globe 7 The crew in 1522.
AARP probe packet - AARP probe packet AARP probe packets are sent out on a nonextended AppleTalk network as part of the initialization sequence for a node to discover whether a randomly selected node ID is being used by any node. If not, the sending node uses the node ID. If so, it chooses a different ID and sends more AARP probe packets. See also: Apple Address Resolution Protocol (AARP) Packet (computing) This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission..
Atom Probe - Atom Probe Atom probe is an analysis technique in materials science. One Dimensional Atom Probe A kind of microscopy combining time-of-flight spectroscopy and field ion microscopy (FIM). As in FIM, a sharp tip is made, placed in vacuum at cryogenic temperature ( < 50 K) . A Positive pulsed voltage is applied, causing individual atoms at the surface of the tip to ionize and be repelled from the tip electrostatically. A fast timing circuit is used to measure the time taken between the pulse and the impact of the ion on a detector, thus allowing the mass-to-charge ratio of the ion to be calculated, and thus the element ( or elements) of the ion. From the collection of many of these atoms, a chemical profile of the.
Cassini probe - Cassini probe The Cassini unmanned space probe is intended to study Saturn and its moonss. It was launched on October 15, 1997 and is estimated to enter Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004. The mission is a joined NASA/ESA project. Cassini's principal objectives are to: determine the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the rings determine the composition of the satellite surfaces and the geological history of each object determine the nature and origin of the dark material on Iapetus' leading hemisphere measure the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the magnetosphere study the dynamical behavior of Saturn's atmosphere at cloud level study the time variability of Titan's clouds and hazes characterize Titan's surface on a regional scale. The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997.
KC-135 Stratotanker - Combat Command operates the OC-135 Open Skies as an observation platform in compliance with the Open Skies Treaty. Over the next few years (as of 2003), the aircraft will undergo upgrades to expand its capabilities and improve its reliability. Among these are improved communications, navigation and surveillance equipment to meet future civil air traffic control needs. The Multi-Point Refueling System Program will add hose and drogue refueling pods near the wingtips, allowing it to service multiple aircraft, and to service probe-carrying aircraft without an adapter. Four turbofans, mounted under 35-degree swept wings, power the KC-135 to takeoffs at gross weights up to 322,500 pounds (146,285 kilograms). Nearly all internal fuel can be pumped through the tanker's flying boom, the KC-135's primary fuel transfer method. A special shuttlecock-shaped drogue, attached to and.
Venera - 4, 1961 : Failed to leave earth orbit Venera 1 - Flyby - launched February 12, 1961 : Communications lost enroute to Venus Venera 2 - Flyby - launched November 12, 1965 : Communications lost just before arival Venera 3 - Atmospheric Probe - launched November 16, 1965 : Communications lost just before atmospheric entry Venera 4 - Atmospheric Probe - launched June 12, 1967 : Arrived October 18, 1967 and was the first probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and return data Venera 5 - Atmospheric Probe - launched January 5, 1969 : Arrived May 16, 1969 and successfully returned atmoshperic data before being crushed by pressure within 26km of the surface Venera 6 - Atmospheric Probe - launched January 10, 1969 : Arrived May 17, 1969 and successfully returned.
Venera 1 - 1 Venera 1 was the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. The probe consisted of a cylindrical body topped by a dome, totaling 2 meters in height. Two solar panels extended radially from the cylinder. A large (over 2 meter diameter) high-gain net antenna was used to receive signals from the ground. This antenna was attached to the cylinder. A long antenna arm was used to transmit signals to Earth. The probe was equipped with scientific instruments including a magnetometer attached to the end of a 2 meter boom, ion traps, micrometeorite detectors, and cosmic radiation counters. The dome contained a pressurized sphere which carried a Soviet pennant and was designed to float on the putative Venus oceans after the intended Venus impact. Venera 1 had no on-board propulsion systems. Temperature.
Kecksburg UFO incident - of an acorn and as large as a VW Beetle, was said to be carried away, presumably by the military. Theories as to what the Kecksburg object (if there was one- reports vary) range from it being an alien craft to the nosecone of a Soviet probe, Kosmos 96 that was destined for Venus. There has been a recent push for NASA to release pertinent documents on the subject. Some 40 pages of these documents were released on November 1, 2003, but are unrevealing. Similarities have been drawn between Kecksburg and the Roswell UFO incident. See also http://ufocasebook.com/Kecksburg.html http://www.ufocasebook.com/Kecksberg-UFO.pdf.
Kim Philby - intelligence service itself (at that time known as the OGPU) on the strength of his work for the Comintern. After working as a journalist Philby was recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service (the so-called M.I.6) in 1940, later joining SOE and coming into contact with OSS agents. After the war Philby went first to Istanbul. He later became first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. He returned to Britain in 1950 and in 1951 managed to tip off Burgess and Maclean to an internal British intelligence probe, this warning allowed them time to escape to the Soviet Union. He was not uncovered until 1963 (with the defection of Anatoli Golytsin) but Philby also escaped to the Soviet Union before any arrest could be made. He died in 1988 and.
Vega program - consisted of: An arm carrying thin-film resistance thermometers and an "anemometer", or wind speed indicator. The anemometer consisted of a free-spinning plastic propeller whose spin was measured by LED-photodetector optointerrupters. A module containing a PIN diode photodetector to measure light levels and a vibrating quartz beam pressure sensor. A package at the bottom carrying the batteries and a "nephelometer" to measure cloud density through light reflection. The small low-power transmitter only allowed a data transmission rate of 2,048 bits per second, though the system performed data compression to squeeze more information through the narrow bandwidth. Nonetheless, the sampling rate for most of the instruments was only once every 75 seconds. The balloons were tracked by an international network of 20 radio telescopes back on Earth. The balloons were dropped onto the.
