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    composed of four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. As a replacement for the original Cluster spacecraft which were lost in a launch...
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  • Ariane 5 rocket, vehicle no. 501, on 4 June 1996. It carried the Cluster spacecraft, a constellation of four European Space Agency research satellites...
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  • up cluster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cluster(s) may refer to: Cluster (spacecraft), constellation of four European Space Agency spacecraft Cluster...
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    within the central console of a vehicle or cockpit of an aircraft or spacecraft. Usually located directly ahead of the driver (or pilot), it displays...
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    Voyagers Hear the Jovian bow shock (from the University of Iowa) Cluster spacecraft makes a shocking discovery (Planetary Bow Shock) Portals:  Astronomy...
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    found to be brief and very dynamic. The European Space Agency's four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these...
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    occurred through the distinctive arrangement of the four identical Cluster spacecraft, which fly in a controlled configuration through near-Earth space...
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  • of program control on numerical exceptions. For example, the 1996 Cluster spacecraft launch ended in a catastrophic explosion due in part to the Ada exception...
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    against near-Earth objects (NEOs). It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting...
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    Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC...
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    commitment to the STSP cornerstone by descoping SOHO and limiting Cluster to three spacecraft, and reaching a collaboration agreement with NASA in October...
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  • later confirmed by observations from the Cluster spacecraft. Schwartz is the UK Project Scientist for the UK Cluster Science Centre, co-investigator for the...
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    Unlike other aggregations of spacecraft, such as constellations and clusters, the modules of a fractionated spacecraft are largely heterogeneous and...
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    observe the process directly and in-situ. Cluster II is a four-spacecraft mission, with the four spacecraft arranged in a tetrahedron to separate the...
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    Messier 7 (redirect from Open Cluster M7)
    and sometimes known as the Ptolemy Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Scorpius. The cluster is easily detectable with the naked...
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    Earth, a calibration image of the Wishing Well cluster marked the most distant image ever taken by a spacecraft (breaking the 27-year record set by Voyager...
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  • Cluster II may refer to: Cluster II (spacecraft), a European Space Agency mission Cluster II (album), an album by German electronic music group Cluster...
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    Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft data from Messier 4 revealed an excess mass of roughly 800 solar masses in the center of this cluster, which appears to not...
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  • fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term "spacecraft" is...
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    ACE can continue to function. Spaceflight portal Cluster (spacecraft) Heliophysics Helios (spacecraft) Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), launched...
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    cluster, including M15, but cannot definitively rule out one with a mass of 500–1000 M☉. Finally, in 2023, an analysis of HST and the Gaia spacecraft...
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    dark matter and galaxies and measure how these properties change as the spacecraft looks further back in time. Highly precise images are required to provide...
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    Agency (ESA), launched in 2013 and expected to operate until 2025. The spacecraft is designed for astrometry: measuring the positions, distances and motions...
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  • The concept of self-replicating spacecraft, as envisioned by mathematician John von Neumann, has been described by futurists and has been discussed across...
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    the ESA's Horizon 2000 programme, after SOHO / Cluster and XMM-Newton. On 6 August 2014, the spacecraft reached the comet and performed a series of manoeuvers...
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    Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made. The probe was named after...
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    Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by American space company SpaceX, primarily for flights to the...
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    space agencies List of planetariums Lists of space scientists Lists of spacecraft Portals:  Astronomy  Stars  Spaceflight  Outer space  Solar System This...
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    Way at low frequencies, and dust at high frequencies.[needs update] The spacecraft carries two instruments: the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and the High...
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    in the 2005–2010 timeframe. TAU was a proposed nuclear electric rocket spacecraft that used a 1 MW fission reactor and an ion drive (with a burn time of...
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