- Meteor (satellite)
level is between LAGEOS and ETALON . References Reflist See also Soviet space program Space based ... more details
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- Marshall Space Flight Center
Infobox Government agency agency name George C. Marshall Space Flight Center nativename nativename a nativename r logo NASA logo.svg logo width 100px seal seal width picture Msfc aerial view.jpg picture width 220px picture caption Aerial view of the test area at MSFC formed July 1, 1960 preceding1 Redstone Arsenal date1 date1 name date2 date2 name preceding1 preceding2 parent agency NASA jurisdiction U.S. federal government headquarters Redstone Arsenal , Alabama latd 34 latm 39 lats 3 latNS N longd 86 longm 40 longs 22 longEW W employees budget chief1 name Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr. chief1 position director child2 agency website http www.nasa.gov centers marshall home index.html Marshall home page footnotes map map width 180px map caption The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC is the Federal government of the United States U.S. government s civilian rocket ry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest center of NASA , MSFC s first mission was developing the Saturn rocket family Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program Apollo moon program . Marshall is today the agency s lead center for Space Shuttle propulsion and its Space Shuttle external tank external tank payloads and related crew training International Space Station ISS design and assembly and computers, networks, and information management. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama , MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army United States General of the Army George Marshall . The center also contains the Huntsville Operations Support Center HOSC , a facility that supports Space Shuttle launch, payload and experiment activities at the Kennedy Space Center , ISS launch and experiment operations. The HOSC also monitors rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station when a Marshall Center payload is on board. History After the end of the war with Germany in May 1945, a program was initiated to bring to the United States a number of scientist and engineers who had ... more details
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- NASA Astronaut Group 16
OV 102 full no ref name csa sgmaclean ref name nasa sgmaclean deployed the LAGEOS II Satelite flight ... more details
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- Tropical year
than reflectorless measurements artificial satellites such as LAGEOS 1976 and the Global Positioning ... more details
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- Geopotential model
, 1981 Lerch, F.J., Klosko, S.M., Patel, G.B., A Refined Gravity Model from Lageos GEML2 , NASA Technical ... more details
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- List of laser articles
Geodynamics Satellites , LAGEOS Laser Ghost Laser glass sculpture Laser guidance Laser guidance seeker ... more details
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- List of space shuttle missions
20h Kennedy LAGEOS II, microgravity experiments 52 sort 1202 December 2 , 1992 STS 53 br image Sts ... more details
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- Pioneer anomaly
equations. The Lunar Laser Ranging experiment combined with data of LAGEOS satellites refutes that simple ... more details
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- 1976
Wran becomes Premiers of New South Wales Premier of New South Wales . May 4 The first LAGEOS Laser ... more details
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- List of human spaceflights, 1991?2000
Satellite II LAGEOS II . US Microgravity Payload 1 USMP 1 physics experiments. 158 style padding ... more details
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- General relativity
2004 ref Somewhat controversial tests have been performed using the LAGEOS satellites, confirming ... more details
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- 1992 in spaceflight
Infobox Year in spaceflight image caption first 21 January last 29 December total success failed partial catalogued maidens Atlas II Atlas IIA br OV 105 retired Commercial Titan III br Delta II 6920 br Delta II 6925 br H I orbital 10 totalcrew 59 firstlaunch RUS firstsat firsttrav BEL br ITA br SUI toclimit limit 2 br clear both Launches TLS M 1992 TLS H2 colspan 8 January TLS RL NoPL 1 date 11 January time 03 40 rocket flagicon CAN Black Brant rocket Black Brant IX site flagicon USA White Sands Missile Range White Sands LC 36 LSP flagicon USA NASA remarks Apogee convert 248 km payload TLS PL user NASA orbit Sub orbital spaceflight Suborbital function Astronomy outcome Successful d date 11 January TLS RL NoPL 1 date 17 January rocket flagicon USA Storm rocket Storm site flagicon USA White Sands SULF LSP flagicon USA United States Air Force US Air Force remarks Apogee convert 200 km payload TLS PL name flagicon USA BTTV 1 user US Air Force orbit Suborbital function Test flight outcome Successful d date 17 January TLS RL NoPL 1 date 21 January time 15 00 rocket flagicon RUS Soyuz U site flagicon RUS Plesetsk Cosmodrome Plesetsk Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 Site 43 3 LSP flagicon RUS Russian Space Forces VKS remarks First Russian post Soviet Union Soviet satellite launch payload TLS PL name flagicon RUS Kosmos 2175 Yantar satellite Yantar 4K2 user VKS orbit Low Earth orbit Low Earth function Reconnaissance outcome Successful d date 20 March TLS RL NoPL 2 date 22 January time 14 52 33 rocket flagicon USA OV 103 ref cite web url http www.nasa.gov mission pages shuttle shuttlemissions archives sts 42.html title NASA STS 42 accessdate 2008 05 26 author NASA date 2007 11 23 publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20080609200537 http www.nasa.gov mission pages shuttle shuttlemissions archives sts 42.html archivedate 9 June 2008 DASHBot deadurl no ref site flagicon USA Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Kennedy Space Center Launch ... more details
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