• Project Orbiter was a proposed United States spacecraft, an early competitor to Project Vanguard. It was jointly run by the United States Army and United...
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    The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that...
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    Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24...
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    The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...
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    The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian...
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    The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...
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    Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO...
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    lander missions. Europa Orbiter received pre-project funding in 1998, and resulted from NASA's Fire and Ice project. Europa Orbiter was a design for a mission...
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    launched separately: an orbiter and a multiprobe. The orbiter was launched on May 20, 1978 on an Atlas-Centaur rocket. The orbiter's mass was 517 kg (1,140 lb)...
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  • The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO or ExoMars Orbiter) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Roscosmos agency...
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    their vehicle as an orbital launcher. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, Project Orbiter was revived, with two...
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    collision has become more severe. An orbiter is a spacecraft that is designed to perform an orbital insertion, entering orbit around an astronomical body from...
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  • Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States...
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    thrust to enter orbit around Venus. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter carried 17 experiments with a total mass of 45 kilograms (99 lb): The Orbiter Cloud Photopolarimeter...
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    investigations. Each orbiter, based on the earlier Mariner 9 spacecraft, was an octagon approximately 2.5 m (8.2 ft) across. The fully fueled orbiter-lander pair...
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    The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the...
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    The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar...
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    Buran (spacecraft) (category Buran-class orbiters)
    the weight of the orbiter, while another 11% of weight was added by payload systems and removable parts. The wings of the orbiter contained elevators...
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    of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights (STS-5) beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles...
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    Explorer 1 (category Satellites formerly orbiting Earth)
    joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year. The...
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    downsizing of the project and eventual cancellation, were: 1991 — Orbiter 2K uncrewed first flight, duration 1–2 days. 1992 — Orbiter 2K uncrewed second...
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    project independently. With Mars transfer window arriving in the 2013, ISRO repurposed the unused Chandrayaan-2 orbiter hardware for the Mars Orbiter...
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    Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad...
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    Surveyor – NASA orbiter mission to Mars (1996–2006) Mars Orbiter Mission – Indian orbiter mission to Mars (2013–2022) Mars Student Imaging Project – American...
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    Mars orbiter. The mission is the first successful Asian interplanetary mission. Ten days after ISRO's launch, NASA launched their seventh Mars orbiter MAVEN...
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  • has one condition if she and Alex are to return to Orbiter 9. Some years later, a girl exits Orbiter 9 in the forest and is greeted by a satisfied but...
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    Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed...
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  • United States Army's Project Orbiter in 1954. The project was canceled in 1955 when the decision was made to proceed with Project Vanguard. Following the...
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    the orbiter on top of the fuel tank; MAKS-T, with upgraded payload capability and a configuration that involved the fuel tank above the orbiter; and...
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    Margate, Kent. The Orbiter is made by Tivoli Manufacturing, a British company, and by their U.S. representatives, Amtech. The Orbiter has a number of articulated...
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