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Space flight
Of or relating to the act of voyaging outside the Earth's atmosphere and into outer space, and the science involved in achieving it.
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SpaceX CRS-1
Aerospace; Space flight
The official name of the first space station cargo mission launched on a privately built robotic spacecraft. The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by the commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX, is the ...
quasi-stellar source (QSS)
Astronomy; Space flight
A stellar-appearing object of very large redshift that is a strong source of radio waves; presumed to be extragalactic and highly luminous.
event horizon
Aerospace; Space flight
The distance from a black hole within which nothing can escape. In addition, nothing can prevent a particle from hitting the singularity in a very short amount of proper time once it has entered the ...
deconvolution
Aerospace; Space flight
An image processing technique that removes features in an image that are caused by the telescope itself rather than from actual light coming from the sky. For example, the optical analog would be to ...
synergetic air-breathing rocket engine (SABRE)
Aerospace; Space flight
A futuristic British space plane engine that burns hydrogen and oxygen to generate thrust. Abbreviated as SABRE, the rocket engine sinulates a jet for a space plane flight through the thick lower ...
Chang'e-3 mission
Aerospace; Space flight
The Chang'e-3 mission is China's first attempt to land a space probe on a celestial body and the first time a soft-landing on the lunar surface has been carried out since America's Apollo missions of ...
Naro-1
Aerospace; Space flight
The Naro-1 is the first south korean orbital launch vehicle, which made its maiden flight on 25 August 2009. Built by KARI, the national space agency of South Korea, and Korean Air, with the first ...
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