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    The Svalbard Rocket Range or SvalRak as it is named, is a launch site for sounding rockets at Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway. The site has been in use...
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    second launch site—Svalbard Rocket Range—was established at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, enabling scientists to launch sounding rockets straight in the polar cusp...
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    reaching 114. Its facilities include Ny-Ålesund Airport, Hamnerabben, Svalbard Rocket Range, a port and Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum, as well as a number...
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    separation and the rocket fell into the ocean within the range safety area. The second attempt at becoming the smallest orbital launching rocket was made on...
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    VS-30 (category Sounding rockets of Brazil)
    Barreira do Inferno , Rio Grande do Norte, in Brazil, and Andøya and Svalbard Rocket Range in Norway. It has been launched both on its own, or in the VS-30...
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    Agriculture in Svalbard – the archipelago containing the world's northernmost permanently inhabited settlements – has a short history, and remains a minor...
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  • 2022). "44 SuperDove Satellites Successfully Launch On SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket". Planet Labs. Retrieved 21 January 2022. "FOREST-1 Mission Success: A Giant...
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    Kvitøya (category Islands of Svalbard)
    Kvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 682 square kilometres (263 sq mi). It is...
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    Grumant (category Former populated places in Svalbard)
    Grumant (Russian: Грумант) is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles...
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    Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andøya Rocket Range off the northwestern coast of Norway. The rocket carried scientific equipment to study...
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    two sounding rocket launch sites, one at Andøya and one at Svalbard. Has launched sounding rockets since 1962. Poker Flat Research Range is owned by the...
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    The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR) is a launch facility and rocket range for sounding rockets in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on a 5,132-acre (20...
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    archaeology of Svalbard is the study of human activity in the northerly Arctic Ocean archipelago's past. The geography, environment and climate of Svalbard have...
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    Pyramiden Museum (category Museums in Svalbard)
    Pyramiden Museum is a small museum located in Pyramiden, an abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The museum features exhibits...
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    Barentsburg Pomor Museum (category Museums in Svalbard)
    Barentsburg Pomor Museum is a small museum located in Barentsburg, a town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Founded during the 1920s...
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  • This is a list of museums in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Barentsburg Pomor Museum, located in Barentsburg Ny-Ålesund Town and...
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    Spitsbergen Airship Museum (category Museums in Svalbard)
    Spitsbergen in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Arctic Ocean archipelago Svalbard. It has been formally renamed as the North Pole Expedition Museum.[citation...
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    Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum (category Museums in Svalbard)
    island of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. While some sources claim that the more well known Svalbard Museum holds the position, the...
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    Finnair Flight 915 (category Transport in Svalbard)
    Svalbard, between 1 and 2 p.m. Finnish time, the assistant pilot in command Esko Kaukiainen and assistant first officer Markku Soininen saw a rocket approach...
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    Andøy (section Rocket Range)
    Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. Andøya Space, formerly Andøya Rocket Range, is a civilian rocket range located a few kilometres south of Andenes. As of 2022,...
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  • ASW rockets, 2 × RBU-1000 ASW rockets Powerplant: 2 × KN-3 reactors, 2 × oil fired boilers, 2 × steam turbines (140,000 shp) Speed: 32 knots Range: 1000...
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    in Svalbard: from Ny-Alesund to the North Pole". slideshare.net. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 2017-04-10. "Pyramiden: Culture House". spitsbergen-svalbard.com...
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    identified by the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority on the seabed near Svalbard in 2022. Data from Aircraft of the Third Reich : Volume One General characteristics...
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  • ("ess-ram") SR-ATGW – (i) Short-Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapon SRB – (i) Solid Rocket Booster SRBM – (i) Short-Range Ballistic Missile (cf. IRBM, ICBM)...
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    station, operated by Kongsberg a few kilometres west of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. From there, data is transmitted by Telenor through a fibre-optic network...
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    ICI-5 sounding rocket launched 07:43:04 UT Nov. 26th from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, into a beautiful red auroral arc". Andøya Space Center. 27 November 2019...
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    of KSAT's operations and provides backbone services for the high Arctic Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat) and the Antarctic Troll Satellite Station (TrollSat)...
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    CICERO, was launched into space from French Guiana, France aboard a Vega rocket. The satellite was built in Monaco by Orbital Solutions Monaco. Monaco has...
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    Retrieved 18 September 2008. "Andre Verdenskrig på Svalbard". svalbardmuseum.no (in Norwegian). Svalbard Museum. 24 July 2011. Archived from the original...
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