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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint space mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall. The term refers…
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Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-Atom Spectrometers (TWINS) are a pair of NASA instruments aboard two United States National Reconnaissance Office satellites in Molniya orbits. TWINS was designed to provide stereo images…
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UniBRITE-1 is, along with TUGSAT-1, one of the first two Austrian satellites to be launched. Along with TUGSAT, it operates as part of the BRIght-star Target Explorer constellation of satellites.…
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Vega (Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata - European Advanced Generation Carrier) is an expendable launch system developed for Arianespace jointly by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space…
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Vega is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). Development began in 1998 and the first…
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Venus Express (VEX) is the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency. Launched in November 2005, it arrived at Venus in April 2006 and has been continuously sending…
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The Venus Spectral Rocket (VeSpR) is a two-stage system, combining a Terrier missile - originally built as a surface-to-air missile and later re-purposed to support science missions - and a…
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The VERTA (Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment) programme aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the Vega launch system. It comprises three main elements: Procurement of five VERTA demonstration flights; Customer…
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the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) is a federated search system for solar physics images. It is a collaborative distributed solar data archive and analysis system with access through the Web.…
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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual…
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The Voyager program is a U.S program that launched two unmanned space missions, scientific probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a…
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Warp drive is a hypothetical faster-than-light propulsion system in the setting of many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek. However, how crazy the idea could be, a few months…