of Space Systems). The Compass team shares many similarities with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Team X group and the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center...
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Compass 1100, 360 degree model, Vintage Laptop Museum, 5 April 2017 Video about GRiD Compass Video about the SPOC program that was used on the NASA Shuttle...
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whether development of this instrument is ongoing. "Inertial Stellar Compass". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Retrieved 2024-11-25. Brady, T.; Buckley...
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Space Shuttle (redirect from NASA Shuttles)
1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was the...
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The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. Its primary campus is located inside Edwards...
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Gyrocompass (redirect from Gyroscopic compass)
A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used...
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Discovery Program (redirect from NASA Discovery)
(PDF) Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven R. Oleson, David Grantier, and the COMPASS team. NASA John Glenn Research Center. 65th International Astronautical Congress...
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means of establishing the heading in most small aircraft is the magnetic compass, which, however, suffers from several types of errors, including that created...
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Poncelet–Steiner theorem (redirect from Rusty compass)
concerning compass and straightedge constructions having additional restrictions imposed on the traditional rules. This result, related to the rusty compass equivalence...
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launches Cartosat 2E and 30 small sats". NASA Spaceflight. Retrieved 4 February 2021. FH Aachen site compass 2 Archived 2014-11-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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instrument includes both the Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) and Advanced Stellar Compass (ASC) instruments. There two sets of MAG instrument suites, and they are...
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Sunset (section Names of compass points)
produce unusual results.[citation needed] In some languages, points of the compass bear names etymologically derived from words for sunrise and sunset. The...
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Feng shui (section Compass branch)
markings on a liuren/shi and the first magnetic compasses are virtually identical. The magnetic compass was used for feng shui since its invention. Traditional...
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interested in this project.[citation needed] USAF Compass Dwell and Compass Cope The USAF Compass Dwell UAV program saw the flight of the LTV XQM-93...
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Experiment on board the Earth Observing 1 satellite and the Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC) experiment aboard TacSat-2. The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment...
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opposite magnetic poles attract and the north end of a magnet, like a compass needle, points toward Earth's South magnetic field.) While the North and...
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(PDF) Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven R. Oleson, David Grantier, and the COMPASS team. NASA John Glenn Research Center. 65th International Astronautical Congress...
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Sunita Williams (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA)
Expedition 15 and Expedition 32, and commander of Expedition 33. A member of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, she became the first woman to fly on a flight test...
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magnetic field points vertically downward (in other words, if a magnetic compass needle is allowed to rotate in three dimensions, it will point straight...
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New Millennium Program (category NASA programs)
New Millennium Program (NMP) was a NASA project with focus on engineering validation of new technologies for space applications. Funding for the program...
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are not to be confused with "steering stars" of a sidereal compass rose of a sidereal compass. Media related to Zenith (topography) at Wikimedia Commons...
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Magnetometer (redirect from Flux-gate compass)
strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a particular location. A compass is one such device, one that measures the direction of an ambient magnetic...
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Andrew J. Feustel (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA)
American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July...
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from one place to another by means of navigation equipment (such as a compass or GNSS receivers), maps and visual navigation marks across urban or rural...
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United Space Alliance, LLC for NASA Johnson Space Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-30. "GRiD Compass 1101 computer". Retrieved 9 January...
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Peggy Whitson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA)
biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space. She retired from NASA in 2018, after serving as Chief Astronaut. Over all her missions, Whitson...
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formed out of a lodestone. Passing a small compass over the terrella, Gilbert demonstrated that a horizontal compass would point towards the magnetic pole...
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Juno (spacecraft) (category NASA space probes)
Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the spacecraft was...
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Space Race. The operation played a crucial role in the establishment of NASA and the success of the Apollo missions to the Moon. Operation Paperclip was...
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José M. Hernández (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA)
"Astronaut Jose Hernandez Leaves NASA". NASA. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2011. "NASA Astronaut Jose Hernandez". US...
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