Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS) or Tsubame was a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (VLEO, below 200 km)...
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Starlink (redirect from SpaceX satellite development facility)
started launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of early March 2024, it consists of over 6,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) that...
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launched its Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, or SLATS (“Tsubame”), in 2017, whose orbit slowly decreased from an initial altitude of 630 km (391 mi)...
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different satellites commonly referred to as Tsubame: TSUBAME (satellite), a small gamma-ray observatory Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, an experimental...
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of Taiwan, a member of the Free Standards Group Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, a Japanese satellite Slat, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated...
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SpaceX Starship (redirect from Starship satellite delivery spacecraft)
tests started with the construction of the first prototype in 2018, Starhopper, which performed several static fires and two successful low-altitude flights...
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Eleven test flights were of single-stage Starship spacecraft flying low-altitude tests (2019–2021), while three were orbital trajectory flights of the entire...
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Izet-Unsalan, Kunsel; Unsalan, Deniz (2011). "A low cost alternative for satellites- tethered ultra-high altitude balloons". Proceedings of 5th International...
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earlier low-altitude test flights at the SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas in preparation for the high-altitude high-velocity testing of landing test phase...
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in altitude, and successfully impact. On 4 February 2015, the LRASM conducted its third successful flight test, conducted to evaluate low-altitude performance...
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Project HARP (redirect from High Altitude Research Project)
series using wooden slugs, Martlet 2C's, and a Low Altitude High-Velocity cone. Several models of test projectiles were fired or designed during Project...
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Nuclear electromagnetic pulse (redirect from High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse)
visual horizon. The altitude indicated above is greater than that of the International Space Station and many low Earth orbit satellites. Large weapons could...
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SpaceX reusable launch system development program (redirect from Falcon 9 second-stage mini-BFR test vehicle)
flight test of a booster-controlled descent from high altitude, coupled with the technological advancements made on the Grasshopper low-altitude landing...
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static fire test, and in a tethered test reached 1 meter altitude. On July 25, 2019 a Starhopper test flight reached about 20 m (66 ft) altitude, followed...
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Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 (redirect from 2016 North Korea satellite launch)
a reconnaissance satellite launched by North Korea on 7 February 2016. The launch happened after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on 6 January and...
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superpressure balloon (SPB) system. At 40 km altitude above sea level, the football-stadium-sized balloon carries SuperBIT (at 3500 lbs) to a suborbital environment...
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original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024. "China launches test satellite using Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket". Xinhua. 11 January 2024. Archived...
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high-altitude flight test of six minutes. SpaceX continued to build new upper stages, completed several first stages, and performed ground tests while...
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SpaceX (section Development and test facilities)
Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. All SpaceX rocket engines are tested on rocket test stands, and low-altitude VTVL flight testing of the Falcon...
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SpaceX Starshield (redirect from Starshield (satellite constellation))
Starshield is a SpaceX program consisting of purpose-built low-Earth orbit satellites designed to provide new "disruptive" military space capabilities...
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ISRO (section General satellite programmes)
space sciences included the study of cosmic radiation, high-altitude and airborne testing, deep underground experimentation at the Kolar mines—one of...
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SpaceX facilities (redirect from SpaceX high-altitude test facility)
tested on rocket test stands, and low-altitude VTVL flight testing of the Falcon 9 Grasshopper v1.0 test vehicle are done at McGregor. High-altitude,...
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Hypersonic flight (section Low density flow)
68 n m {\displaystyle \lambda =68\,\mathrm {nm} } . Low density air is much thinner. At an altitude of 104 km (342,000 ft) the mean free path is λ = 1...
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Falcon 9 prototypes (section Flight testing)
first low-altitude flight test on 17 April 2014; it was lost during a three-engine test at the McGregor test site on 22 August 2014, which ended the low-velocity...
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(absolute ceiling) Rate of climb: 1,450 ft/min (7.4 m/s) "Planet Satellite: British super-plane or magnesium flop?". Hush-Kit. 16 October 2015. Retrieved...
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tested during an in-orbit verification using the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X and the American Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFire) satellite....
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rather than via a ground station. The satellites are designed to provide jam-resistant communications with a low probability of interception. They incorporate...
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sustainable, low-cost, ultra-light rocket". Argentina Reports. Retrieved 13 October 2022. "Argentine company wants to launch satellites from Uruguay"...
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incident, Orbcomm said they gathered useful test data from the mission and planned to send more satellites via SpaceX, which happened in July 2014, and...
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objects into Low Earth orbit, at which point attached rockets could be fired or the objects could be "collected" by maneuverable orbiting satellites.[citation...
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