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CU Spaceflight – Projects

, Cambridge University Spaceflight has three projects which it is pursuing; all three are critical to the long-term goal of successfully launching a rocket into space and retrieving it. Nova Nova is CU Spaceflight’s first project and has the objective of launching high altitude balloons on test flights to near space. The lifting gas used [...]

2007 in spaceflight – Introduction

2007 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including a Chinese ASAT test, the launches of the US Phoenix and Dawn missions to study Mars and Asteroid belt respectively, Japan’s Kaguya Lunar orbiter, and the first Chinese Lunar probe, Chang’e 1. The internationally accepted definition of a spaceflight is any flight which crosses the Kármán line, [...]

Spaceflight osteopenia – Introduction

Spaceflight osteopenia refers to the characteristic bone loss that occurs during spaceflight. Astronauts lose an average of more than 1% bone mass per month spent in space. There is concern that during long duration flights, excessive bone loss and the associated increase in serum calcium ion levels will interfere with execution of mission tasks and [...]

Spaceflight – Introduction

Spaceflight or space flight is the use of space technology to achieve the flight of spacecraft into and through outer space. Spaceflight is used in space exploration, and also in commercial activities like space tourism and satellite telecommunications. Additional non-commercial uses of spaceflight include space observatories, reconnaissance satellites and other earth observation satellites. A spaceflight [...]

History of spaceflight – Background

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Adapted from the Wikipedia article History of spaceflight, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Timeline of spaceflight – Introduction

Spaceflight

timeline of known spaceflights, both manned and unmanned, sorted chronologically by launch date. Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. The list, and lists for subsequent years, may contain launches which have [...]

Space Shuttle Atlantis – Introduction

Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle ”Atlantis” (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States (the other two surviving Space Shuttles are the ”Discovery” and the ”Endeavour”). The ”Atlantis” was the fourth operational (and the next-to-the-last) Space Shuttle to [...]

2008 in spaceflight – Introduction

Spaceflight

The internationally accepted definition of a spaceflight is any flight which crosses the Kármán line, 100 kilometres above sea level. The first recorded spaceflight launch of the year occurred on 11 January, when a Black Brant was launched on a suborbital trajectory from White Sands, with the LIDOS ultraviolet astronomy payload. This was followed by [...]

Orbital spaceflight – Introduction

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orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit. To do this around the Earth, it must be on a free trajectory which has an altitude at perigee (altitude at closest approach) above (this is, by [...]

Laika – Introduction

Laika (, literally meaning “Barker”) was a Soviet space dog (c. 1954–November 3, 1957) who became the first animal to orbit the Earth and the first orbital death. The technology to deorbit had not yet been developed, so there was no expectation for survival. Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living things [...]

Shin’en (spacecraft) – Introduction

Spacecraft

Shin’en, known before launch as UNITEC-1 or UNISEC Technology Experiment Carrier 1, is a Japanese student spacecraft which is intended to make a flyby of Venus in order to study the effects of interplanetary spaceflight on spacecraft computers. In doing so, it is intended to become the first student-built spacecraft to operate beyond Geocentric orbit. [...]

Space Shuttle Enterprise – Introduction

Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle ”Enterprise” (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight. Originally, ”Enterprise” had been intended [...]









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