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The 1966-72 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory missions demonstrated the important role space-based observations could play in astronomy, and 1968 saw the development by NASA of firm plans for a space-based reflecting telescope with a mirror 3 m in diameter, known provisionally as the Large Orbiting Telescope or Large Space Telescope ( LST ), with a launch slated for 1979.
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Also quite modern is Rudolf Meyer's Hebräische Grammatik ( 1966-72 ), but it is not quite as thorough as Joüon-Muraoka.
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Born in Edmonton, Alberta on July 27, 1940, Andre was educated at the University of Alberta ( Chemical ’ 62, PhD Chemical ’ 66 ) and pursued part of his postgraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology before becoming a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Calgary from 1966-72.
He was principal of the City of Leicester College of Education 1961-66, and Professor of Education in Nairobi 1966-72.
He became Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Home Office 1960-62, Second Secretary, HM Treasury 1963-66 and Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office 1966-72.
In 1966, Fred Hoyle established the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge, and Narlikar served as the founder staff member of the institute during 1966-72.
Orbiting and Astronomical
Shortly after NASA was formed, the Orbiting Solar Observatory was launched, and was followed by the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory ( OAO ) that carried out ultraviolet observations of stars between 1968 and 1972.
* OAO-3 Copernicus, an Orbiting Astronomical Observatory ( X-ray and UV ) launched on 21 August 1972
He had a consultancy with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 1974 to 1983, contributing documentation on the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory project, among others.
The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory ( OAO ) satellites were a series of four American space observatories launched by NASA between 1966 and 1972, which provided the first high-quality observations of many objects in ultraviolet light.
The other member of the core pair, σ Scorpii B, is a main sequence star with a classification of B1 V. Orbiting this binary at a separation half an arcsecond, or at least 120 Astronomical Units ( AU ), four times the Sun – Neptune distance, is the magnitude + 5. 2 σ Scorpii C, which has an orbital period of over a hundred years.
One particular success was the second Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, which had a number of 20cm UV telescopes on board.
Orbiting it with a separation of 4. 6 arcseconds, or at least 125 Astronomical Units, is Epsilon Sculptoris B, a yellow G-type main sequence dwarf with an apparent magnitude of + 8. 6.
Orbiting and Observatory
The spacecraft of the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series were among the first spacecraft with the mission of discovering the space environment.
Installed on the Salyut 4 were OST-1 ( Orbiting Solar Telescope ) 25 cm solar telescope, designed at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, and two X-ray telescopes.
The first detection of a CME as such was made on December 14, 1971, by R. Tousey ( 1973 ) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the Seventh Orbiting Solar Observatory ( OSO-7 ).
Ball Aerospace began building pointing controls for military rockets in 1956, and later won a contract to build one of NASA ’ s first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory.
Three of the last four launches have ended in failure, including the February 24, 2009 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission and the March 4, 2011 launch of the Glory mission.
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* Heaven's Gate — Orbiting the star Alpha Lyrae or Vega, a toxic planet that is difficult to keep terraformed, but rich in mineral resources ; it serves as a temporary ( and highly unpleasant, but nevertheless important ) home for Martin Silenus after he is forced to leave Old Earth.
Orbiting and observations
Orbiting instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope produced rapid advances in astronomical knowledge, acting as the workhorse for visible-light observations of faint objects.
Orbiting and could
He was in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program at the time, and could have become among the first African-American astronauts had he survived to take NASA's offer for all under-35 MOL candidates to join their space program when MOL was scrapped in 1969.
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Almaz had been promoted by Vladimir Chelomei at the OKB-52 design bureau as a response to the US Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) project – MOL had been widely published in the early 1960s in the US press, which provided plenty of material for Chelomei to lobby for a Soviet response to this perceived US threat.
Gorf is an arcade game released in 1981 by Midway Mfg., whose name was advertised as an acronym for " Galactic Orbiting Robot Force ".
Manned Orbiting Laboratory | MOL mockup launch by a Titan IIIC on Nov. 3, 1966 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 | LC-41 Cape Canaveral
Project SCORE ( Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment ) was the world ’ s first communications satellite.
* National Geographic: Hole in Space Found by Orbiting Telescope by Andrew Fazekas ( Published May 12, 2010 )
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory ( OGO ) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere.
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