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    NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were...
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    telescope programs, including the Great Observatory Technology Maturation Program, Habitable Worlds Observatory, and New Great Observatories. Airborne...
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  • hole; a follow-up to HTXS and BHFP spaceflight portal Great Observatories program "Great Observatories". Beyond Einstein. NASA. Archived from the original...
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    scientific career in 2005. Great Observatories program is the flagship NASA telescope program. The Great Observatories program pushes forward our understanding...
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    The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS, is an astronomical survey combining deep observations from three of NASA's Great Observatories: the...
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    by John Charles Duncan in 1920 on a plate made with the Mount Wilson Observatory 60-inch telescope. They are so named because the gas and dust are in...
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    2025[update]. Chandra is one of the Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991–2000), and the Spitzer Space...
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  • ZFOURGE (category Great Observatories program)
    FourStar imager on the 6.5m Magellan Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. It uses medium-band filters in the near-IR that allow for samplings...
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    the CGRO was part of NASA's Great Observatories series, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope...
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    branch observatories located at Qinghai (in Delingha), Ganyu, Xuyi, Honghe (in Jiamusi), and Qingdao. The Minor Planet Center credits the observatory, simply...
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    Hubble Space Telescope (category Great Observatories program)
    NASA's Great Observatories program; other parts of the spectrum are covered by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the...
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    objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble...
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    Board from 1977 until 1980, and there helped propose NASA's Great Observatories program. Smith was an enthusiastic proponent of educating the public...
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    optical observatories, radio observatories can be placed in valleys for further EMI shielding. Some of the world's major radio observatories include the...
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  • Hubble (film) (category Documentary films about the space program of the United States)
    Legacy Field (2019) Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Anniversary images List of deep fields Related Great Observatories program Space Telescope Science...
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    The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which successfully landed the first humans...
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    James Webb Space Telescope, the four Great Observatories, and associated programs. The Launch Services Program oversees launch operations for its uncrewed...
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    The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2 both launched in 1975, and landed on Mars in 1976. The...
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    Spitzer Space Telescope (category Great Observatories program)
    observations had been made by both space-based and ground-based observatories. Ground-based observatories have the drawback that at infrared wavelengths or frequencies...
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  • history to pursue programs in aeronautics research, robotic spaceflight, technology development, and human space exploration programs. NASA's budget for...
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    The Constellation program (abbreviated CxP) was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009...
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    NASA Compendium of Satellite Communications Programs CSC 1975 pp169–224 Orbiting Astronomical Observatories University of Chicago "GAMBIT 3 KH-8 Reconnaissance...
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    Legacy Field (2019) Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Anniversary images List of deep fields Related Great Observatories program Space Telescope Science...
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    best known for pioneering the "faster, better, cheaper" approach to space programs. The only person to hold the post twice is James C. Fletcher, who returned...
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    launched in a short time interval compared to larger observatories like NASA's Great Observatories. Excluding the launches, the MIDEX class has a current...
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    Earthrise (category Apollo program)
    ones were taken robotically and in black-and-white by the Lunar Orbiter program robotic probes, taking in 1966 the first ever image of Earth above the...
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  • Observatory which is the second of four among NASA's Great Observatories program Chandra X-ray Observatory is the third of NASA's Great Observatories...
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    space observatories List of heliophysics missions List of solar telescopes Lists of telescopes Lists of spacecraft Great Observatories program "Gamma...
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  • Current Living With a Star Lunar Precursor Robotic Program Earth Observing System Great Observatories program Explorers Voyager Discovery New Frontiers Solar...
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    processing. They just did a great job. The record will probably never be broken again in the history of the Space Shuttle Program, so congratulations to them...
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