• 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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    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 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 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 (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) 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) 4 was a solar X-rays, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States...
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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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  • 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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    Solrad 9, also known Explorer 37 and Explorer SE-B, was one of the SOLRAD (Solar Radiation) program that began in 1960 to provide continuous coverage...
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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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    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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    referred to in its scientific capacity as SOLRAD ("SOLar RADiation").: 142, 149 : 300  The first GRAB satellite, SOLRAD 1, was launched 22 June 1960, on the...
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    26, 1962, when a Scout X-2 launched SOLRAD 4B for the Naval Research Laboratory. It was the only probe in the SOLRAD series to launch from California; however...
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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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    Electronic reconnaissance Signals intelligence, intercepts stray radio waves. SOLRAD is the earliest known. Optical imaging surveillance Earth imaging satellites...
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    1960-06-22 05:54 Thor 281 Ablestar 003 CCAFS LC-17B Transit 2A, GRAB-1 (Solrad 1) Navigation, ELINT Success 1960-08-18 19:58 Thor 262 Ablestar 004 CCAFS...
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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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    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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    Retrieved 6 December 2020. McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Report. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 6 December...
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  • August flare was 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...
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  • Alfred Hitchcock. June 22 – The United States Naval Research Laboratory SOLRAD 1 Galactic Radiation and Background program satellite is successfully launched...
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  • Aurora (P67-1), Orbiscal (P68-1), Lincoln Calibration Sphere 4, S3-2, Solrad 11A/B, SPX plume generator package, Freja, Meteor and Equator-S, Star C...
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    public domain. "IE C (Injun 5, Explorer 40)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 6 February 2022. "Injun 1". Gunter's Space Page. 11 December 2017. Retrieved...
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    Over 90 space missions have been launched since. Starting with Explorer 6, it has been operated by NASA, with regular collaboration with a variety of...
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    Hypersonic Research Program". NASA. Retrieved October 4, 2015. 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7 on Oct. 3, 1967, Jacopo Prisco (July 28, 2020). "X-15: The fastest manned...
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    ground before the operational launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base's SLC-6 would be activated. The only MOL launch made before the program's cancellation...
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    Earth orbit, during the successful Zond 5 mission to the Moon and the Zond 6 lunar mission which crashed upon return, and the year that humans first left...
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    satellites, for military communications and early warning, though one flight (ATS-6) was performed by NASA. The Titan IIIC was launched exclusively from Cape...
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