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CSTS (Crew Space Transportation System) or ACTS (Advanced Crew Transportation System) was a human spaceflight system proposal. It was originally a joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and…
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CubeSail is an educational satellite project at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC). Several PhD projects are centred on its development, and it will serve as a technology platform for at…
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A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that usually has a volume of exactly one liter (10 cm cube), has a mass of no more than…
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The Curiosity rover is a car-sized Mars rover currently exploring Gale Crater, near the equator of Mars. The rover is designed to examine whether Mars could have once supported life.…
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The Cygnus spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) developmental program. It is designed to transport…
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The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is designed to probe the origin of the accelerating universe and help uncover the nature of dark energy by measuring the 14-billion-year history of cosmic…
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Dawn is a robotic NASA spacecraft tasked with the exploration and study of Vesta and Ceres, the two largest members of the asteroid belt. Launched on September 27, 2007, the…
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Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet 9P/Tempel, by releasing an impactor into the…
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The Deep Space Atomic Clock project (DSAC), will fly and validate a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock that is orders of magnitude more stable than today's best navigation clocks. DSAC:…
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The Deep Space Network (DSN) is a world-wide network of large antennas and communication facilities that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions. It also performs radio and radar astronomy observations for the…
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Delfi-C3 is a CubeSat satellite constructed by students at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Delfi-C3 is the first nanosatellite student project from the Delft University of Technology…
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The Destiny laboratory is a module of the International Space Station (ISS). It is the primary operating facility for U.S. research payloads aboard the ISS. It was berthed to the…