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    mission was named after the Phoenix, a mythological bird that is repeatedly reborn from its own ashes. The Phoenix spacecraft contains several previously...
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  • Look up Phoenix, Phœnix, phoenix, phoenixes, or phœnix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phoenix most often refers to: Phoenix (mythology), a legendary...
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  • value "sticks", that is, remains constant, once it has been set. The Phoenix spacecraft contains another type of tell-tale, developed by the University of...
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  • first colonial voyage to Mars aboard the Ares, the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built and home to a crew who are to be the first hundred Martian...
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    territorial dispute between the two countries. May 25 – NASA's uncrewed Phoenix spacecraft becomes the first to land on the northern polar region of Mars. May...
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    continuous deployment in British military history. August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole. August 9 – The French...
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  • PAM-D with the Phoenix spacecraft. The stage is successively spun, fired, yo-yo de-spun and jettisoned....
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  • there was growing international interest in the development of reusable spacecraft; at the time, only the superpowers of the era, the Soviet Union and the...
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    List of uncrewed NASA missions (category Uncrewed spacecraft)
    Ranging) was a robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury, the first spacecraft to do so. The 485-kilogram (1,069 lb) spacecraft was launched aboard...
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    Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason-2) Orbiting Carbon Observatory Phoenix spacecraft Pioneer 3 and 4 Psyche: Journey to a Metal World Ranger program Shuttle...
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  • Matplotlib was used for data visualization during the 2008 landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars and for the creation of the first image of a black hole. Hunter...
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  • The Phoenix Lights (sometimes called the "Lights Over Phoenix") were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects observed in the skies over...
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  • Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, a scientific instrument aboard the Phoenix spacecraft Helium analyzer, an instrument to measure the concentration of helium...
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    lifted the remaining two spacecraft (Rumba and Tango) into similar orbits. Spacecraft 1, Rumba, is also known as the Phoenix spacecraft, since it is largely...
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    Neptune. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giant planets, and was the third of five spacecraft to achieve Solar escape velocity...
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    A lander is a spacecraft that descends towards, then comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth.[page needed] In contrast to...
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    part of the Voyager program and like its sister craft Voyager 2, the spacecraft's extended mission is to locate and study the regions and boundaries of...
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    Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo program...
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  • Yo-yo de-spin (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    attitude control system. As an example of yo-yo de-spin, on the Dawn spacecraft, roughly 3 kilograms (6.6 lb) of weights, and 12-metre (39 ft) cables...
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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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    missile itself was depicted as the launch vehicle for the film's Phoenix spacecraft, the first warp prototype. Warhead stage at top of missile in silo...
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    the planet. All target encounters will be flyby encounters. The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. It was launched on 16...
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  • spacecraft, which he has named Doppelganger, and attempts to dock with Phoenix. However, the electrical systems malfunction, crippling the spacecraft...
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    replied; the exchange was published in December 2011. The Phoenix mission landed a robotic spacecraft in the polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008, and it operated...
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  • A reusable spacecraft is a class of spacecraft that have been designed with repeated launch, orbit, deorbit and atmospheric reentry in mind. This contrasts...
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    Swiss Maxon motors. University of Neuchatel contributed to the Mars Phoenix (spacecraft). University of Bern developed an ultra stable light source for testing...
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  • Eaves as well as the first warp vessel, the Phoenix, and the Enterprise (NX-01). The Phoenix spacecraft was presented in the 1996 feature film Star Trek:...
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    the plane of the Solar System. To change the orbital inclination of a spacecraft to about 80° requires a large change in heliocentric velocity, the energy...
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    Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (category Spacecraft instruments)
    Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) is a scientific instrument aboard the Phoenix spacecraft, a Mars lander which landed and operated on the planet Mars in 2008...
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    the first flyby of Mercury by a spacecraft since 1975, the discovery of water ice on Mars by the Phoenix spacecraft, which landed in May, the first Chinese...
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