Space stations in the past ( up to 200 years before the action of Shards of Honor ) were null-g or used centrifugal force to generate partial gravity, but now they use artificial gravity.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

In the 27th century humans have colonised nearly 900 worlds, have living, sentient starships as well as the conventional kind, and are also living in Asteroid communities and in large, living Space stations.

Space stations typically carry enough lifeboats only for personnel down to, and including, the rank of Gil.

Space stations and human spacecraft in orbit are also satellites.

Additionally, various episodes show Starfleet operating a series of starbases throughout Federation territory, either built as planet-side facilities or as orbital docking stations ( notably the titular installation in the Deep Space Nine series ).

Space stations exist and colonies have been established on the planet Venus.

two space stations are in orbit ; the International Space Station, and China's Tiangong 1, ( which successfully launched on September 29, 2011, after failing in its prior August launch attempt ) Previous stations include the Almaz and Salyut series, Skylab and most recently Mir.

Space stations are used to study the effects of long-term space flight on the human body as well as to provide platforms for greater number and length of scientific studies than available on other space vehicles.

Space stations have been used for both military and civilian purposes.

Space stations were also later envisaged by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth.

There are also planned stations in Melbourne and Ft. Pierce, connecting the Space Coast and Treasure Coast regions with the rest of the country.

Ultimately, experience gained from the Salyut stations went on to pave the way for multimodular space stations such as Mir and the International Space Station, with each of those stations possessing a Salyut-derived core module at its heart.

Category: Space stations

In 1953, Oberth returned to Feucht, Germany, to publish his book Menschen im Weltraum ( Men in Space ), in which he described his ideas for space-based reflecting telescopes, space stations, electric-powered spaceships, and space suits.

Beginning with Space Invaders, video arcade games also started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations and many other retail establishments looking for extra income.

The use of Lunar Orbiters for tracking to evaluate the Manned Space Flight Network tracking stations and Apollo Orbit Determination Program was successful, with three Lunar Orbiters ( 2, 3, and 5 ) being tracked simultaneously from August to October 1967.

Category: Space stations

* Space stations and habitats in popular culture

Category: Space stations

* Space stations and habitats in fiction

Space probes have yielded little information.

Several new commercial Atari 7800 titles such as Beef Drop, B * nQ, Pac Man Collection, Combat 1990, Santa Simon, and Space War have been created and released.

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

Significant progress in Big Bang cosmology have been made since the late 1990s as a result of advances in telescope technology as well as the analysis of data from satellites such as COBE, the Hubble Space Telescope and WMAP.

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

Click and Clack have also been featured in editorial cartoons, including one where a befuddled NASA engineer calls them to ask how to fix the Space Shuttle.

Hubble Space Telescope and MOST have also found or confirmed a few planets.

General relativity also predicts the existence of gravitational waves, which have since been observed indirectly ; a direct measurement is the aim of projects such as LIGO and NASA / ESA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and various pulsar timing arrays.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

NASA's Deep Space One was a very successful test of a prototype ion drive, which fired for a total of 678 days and enabled the probe to run down Comet Borrelly, a feat which would have been impossible for a chemical rocket.

Space elevators have also sometimes been referred to as " beanstalks ", " space bridges ", " space lifts ", " space ladders " or " orbital towers ".

Most known debris discs around other stars are fairly young, but the two images on the right, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 2006, are old enough ( roughly 300 million years ) to have settled into stable configurations.

The protagonist Louis Wu thinks this indicates the Kzinti in Known Space have bred intelligence out of their females.

Replacement was cost-prohibitive because of the expensive requirement for flight certification ; the legacy hardware used completed the expensive integration and certification requirement for flight, but any new equipment would have had to go through that entire process – requiring extensive tests of the new components in their new configurations – before a single unit could be used in the Space Shuttle program.

Other licensed works that have been incorporated into the Marvel Universe include Godzilla, 2001: A Space Odyssey ( in the character of Machine Man ), ROM: Spaceknight, the Micronauts, and the Shogun Warriors.

Its companion Fomalhaut b was thought to be the first extrasolar planet ever detected by a visible light image, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, but infrared observations have since retracted this claim: it is instead a spherical cloud of dust.

The majority of the efforts have looked at embedding spatial database indices such as the Space Filling Curves ( SFCs ) including the Hilbert curves, Z-curves, k-d tree, MX-CIF Quad tree and R *- tree for managing, routing, and indexing of complex Grid resource query objects over DHT networks.

With infrared telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, the " host galaxies " surrounding the quasars have been identified in some cases.

Dorn is the only Star Trek actor to have worked concurrently on the Next Generation films and the Deep Space Nine series, both of which are set in the same time period.

The informant is subsequently executed by the Dominion, causing Captain Benjamin Sisko, the commander of Deep Space Nine, to caution that Starfleet might not grant Worf his own command after this incident, but adds that had he been forced to choose between his duty and his wife, he would have done the same thing.

First appearing in the original Star Trek series in the 1966 episode " Balance of Terror ", they have since made appearances in all the main later Star Trek series: The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise.