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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit.…
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The project is called FINDS Exo-Earths (which stands for Fiber-optic Improved Next generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths). The Planetary Society had teamed up with planet hunters Debra Fischer of Yale…
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The Firefly Cubesat mission is a nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It…
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Flock 1 is a fleet of 28 small satellites. Its deployment began on 11 Feb 2014 from the International Space Station. It was at that date the largest single constellation…
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The Focusing Optics x-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) is a sounding rocket payload to test hard x-ray (HXR) focusing optics and position-sensitive solid state detectors for solar observations. The mission is…
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The François Arago Centre is a project at the Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) laboratory and is supported by the IPGP within the Space Campus of Université Paris Denis-Diderot. The centre…
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Fregat is a type of rocket stage developed by NPO Lavochkin in the 1990s. The main part of the stage is six intersecting spheres placed on a single plane, four…
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Gaia is a space observatory to be launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in November 2013. The mission aims to compile a 3D space catalogue of approximately 1 billion…
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Galactic Suite is a concept of space hotel designed for outer space. The 'space resort' is designed to orbit the earth at a distance of 450 km, and at a…
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Galaxy (previously Guardian) was a prototype space habitat designed by the American firm Bigelow Aerospace. It was intended to be the third spacecraft launched by the company in their efforts…
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The Galileo spacecraft was an unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the astronomer and Renaissance pioneer Galileo Galilei, it was launched…
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The Galileo Mission Segment (GMS) will use a global network of nominally thirty Galileo Sensor Stations (GSS) to monitor the navigation signals of all satellites on a continuous basis. It…