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1947 SF novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Rocket Ship Galileo, a juvenile science-fiction novel by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, features three teenagers who participate
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for scholarly purposes. Destination Moon (story from the 1947 book Rocket Ship Galileo, screenplay, technical advisor), 1950, IMDb (Retro Hugo Award, 1951)
Robert A. Heinlein bibliography
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Mail delivery by rockets or missiles
crewed, rocket-powered aircraft was used to carry U.S. Mail. A surplus mail rocket is used to reach the Moon in Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
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Young-adult novels by Robert A. Heinlein
space. The first, Rocket Ship Galileo, begins in a backyard shortly after World War II, with three boys testing a primitive rocket motor. The last, Have
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Trek Galileo (unit), a unit of measurement Galileo (vibration training) Camp Galileo, California Galileo thermometer Galileo, a rocket in Rocket Ship Galileo
Galileo_(disambiguation)
American journalist
a science writer to whom Heinlein partly dedicated his 1947 book Rocket Ship Galileo. Oscar, Unknown Worlds (February 1941) Deadline, Astounding Science
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1950 film by Irving Pichel
Fiction. Certain story elements from Heinlein's 1947 juvenile novel Rocket Ship Galileo were adapted for use in the film, and in September, 1950, he published
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American illustrator
Probability A 1970 - Tunnel in the Sky 1970 - Barrier World 1970 - Rocket Ship Galileo 1971 - Red Planet 1971 - Have Space Suit Will Travel US Passport
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1996 novel by Allen Steele
Sidewise Award for Alternate History in the Best Long Story category. Rocket Ship Galileo The Silent Sea (TV series) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Space warfare
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2012 science-fiction comedy film
jointly set up with Tero, is going under." Colonization of the Moon Rocket Ship Galileo, Robert A. Heinlein's 1947 novel in which Nazis establish a secret
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1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020) Scribner's juveniles Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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Wife of scifi author Robert A. Heinlein (1916–2003)
Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020) Scribner's juveniles Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950)
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American author and engineer (1907–1988)
World as Myth stories. Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the Moon was considered
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1964 SF novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020) Scribner's juveniles Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950)
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Conspiracy theories alleging connections between UFOs and Nazi Germany
actually designed or ever built. In 1947, Robert A. Heinlein published Rocket Ship Galileo, a science fiction novel featuring a Nazi Moon base. In 1955, Angoisse
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2005 American film
utter barrenness and desolation." The movie was loosely based on Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein, who also helped write the script. In the book
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
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Literature written for adolescents and young adults
Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner's young-adult line, beginning with Rocket Ship Galileo in 1947. Scribner's published eleven more between 1947 and 1958,
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European global navigation satellite system
Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European
Galileo (satellite navigation system)
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Canadian science fiction author (born 1948)
afterword to Variable Star, he recounts the story of how reading Rocket Ship Galileo, and soon after, Heinlein's other Heinlein juvenile novels, helped
Spider_Robinson
1942 science fantasy novella by Robert A. Heinlein
Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020) Scribner's juveniles Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
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1953 film by Richard Talmadge
struggle for control of the rocket, Colonel Briteis accidentally hits the boosters, which saves their lives but leaves the ship critically low on fuel. She
Project_Moonbase
American pejorative political epithet
Robert A. Heinlein in the 1947 short story "Space Jockey" as the name of a rocket spacecraft used for the third step of a journey from the Earth to the Moon
Moonbat
Fictional methods, e.g. antigravity, hyperdrive
the concept of rocketry. George Mann mentions Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) and Arthur C. Clarke's Prelude to Space (1951) as early, influential
Space travel in science fiction
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1950 science fiction novella by Robert A. Heinlein
Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's 1947 novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who
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Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020) Scribner's juveniles Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950)
Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization
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Short story by Robert A. Heinlein
foreword in Expanded Universe, which mentions that it was written after Rocket Ship Galileo. In the story, America has been invaded and occupied after the "20
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also used as military bases in several works. Heinlein's 1947 novel Rocket Ship Galileo—upon which the aforementioned Destination Moon was loosely based—depicts
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of the Elephant's Poohs, Friends Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) – Rocket Ship Galileo, Have Space Suit—Will Travel Racey Helps (1913–1970) – Barnaby Littlemouse
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edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, is published. 1947 Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein, the first of his juvenile novels, is published
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1948 SF novel by Robert A. Heinlein
a wealthy spaceship builder. They are transported to the orbiting school ship PRS James Randolph for training. Burke eventually either resigns or is asked
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Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020) Scribner's juveniles Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950)
List of Robert A. Heinlein characters
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American juvenile science fiction book line
for Boys and Girls. After the publication of Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo in 1947 revived the juvenile science fiction market, The Winston
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American space program to study Jupiter (1989–2003)
Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after
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testing of additively manufactured copper combustion chambers for liquid rocket engine applications (PDF). 53rd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
Materials science in science fiction
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Arthur C. Clarke. Tor Books. pp. 82–88. Heinlein, Robert A. (1947). Rocket Ship Galileo. Charles Scribner's Sons. Heinlein, Robert A. (April 26, 1947). "Space
List of fictional astronauts (early period)
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Floating landing platform operated by SpaceX
space-offshore.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024. "SpaceX Rocket Makes Spectacular Landing on Drone Ship". National Geographic. 8 April 2016. Archived from the
Autonomous spaceport drone ship
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Take My Life L. P. Hartley – Eustace and Hilda Robert A. Heinlein – Rocket Ship Galileo James Hilton – Nothing So Strange Anne Hocking – Prussian Blue Dorothy
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Fictional short range spacecraft class
for Galileo Galilei, was first featured in "The Galileo Seven". Its registration number is NCC-1701/7 and carries a crew of seven. When Galileo and her
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Sold the Moon", below). Rocket Ship Galileo (1947). A physicist and several prodigy teenagers convert a sub-orbital rocket ship to reach the Moon where
List of appearances of the Moon in fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin Rocannon's World (1976) 73330 SF Robert A. Heinlein Rocket Ship Galileo 73390 SF Avram Davidson The Kar-Chee Reign / Rogue Dragon 73425 WE
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Aerospace company in Bremen, Germany
company was awarded a contract for the construction of 14 satellites for the Galileo navigation system. The contract was worth EUR 566 million. A year later
OHB_SE
Russian-European launch vehicle programme
within the rocket were studied and certified to be adequately sealed against insects and rodents. Soyuz rockets arrive at the CSG by ship, where components
Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre
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Ursula K. Le Guin Rocannon's World - 73330 SF Robert A. Heinlein Rocket Ship Galileo - 73425 WE L. L. Foreman Rogue's Legacy 1968 73438 SF Kenneth Bulmer
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Satellite constellation
complementing and enhancing the services of higher orbit systems like Galileo or EGNOS. The first two satellites were launched in March 2026. Celeste
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Technology museum in Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Korolyov led the Sputnik project and was chief engineer for the Soviet Union's rocket and space program from the late 1950s until his death in 1966. He was born
Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics
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Jeff Foust (November 7, 2023). "EU finalizing contract with SpaceX for Galileo launches". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on March 1, 2024. Retrieved
List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (2024)
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A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The manufacture
List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters
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Rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants
solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered
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Temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft
When the Space Shuttle orbiter launched interplanetary probes such as Galileo, it used a parking orbit to deliver the probe to the right injection spot
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Use of satellite signals for navigation or geo-spatial positioning
China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) and the European Union's Galileo. Furthermore, there are two regional navigation satellite systems (RNSS)
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2025 lunar landing mission
Kennedy Space Center on January 15, 2025, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket that also carried the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander. At 08:34 UTC on March 2
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Collision involving one or more satellites in orbit
collision with Europa and possible contamination by Earth microbes, the NASA Galileo spacecraft was intentionally deorbited into Jupiter's atmosphere on September
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European space launch vehicle
companies, led by the prime contractor ArianeGroup. As part of the Ariane rocket family, it is operated by Arianespace, replacing the Ariane 5. The project's
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British aerospace company
Amos, Jonathan (13 May 2016). "SSTL ships 'last' navigation payload for Galileo". BBC News. "SSTL celebrates Galileo navigation payload order". Surrey Satellite
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August 2014, Arianespace launched the first two Full Operational Capability Galileo satellites for the European satellite navigation system. A number of significant
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NASA space mission to Jupiter and Europa
investigate the subsurface ocean below Europa's ice crust, found by the Galileo spacecraft which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Cancelled Europa missions
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EU satellite telecoms constellation project
missions Eutelsat OneWeb, the current European satellite internet service Galileo (satellite navigation), the EU's satellite navigation constellation Satellite
IRIS²
Seventh launch of SpaceX Starship
liftoff, and the tallest rocket to lift off, succeeding the full Block 1 stack by about 2 meters (6 ft 7 in). However, during Ship 33's initial burn, its
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- Combat drone developed by NESCOM Selex ES Falco - Co-produced Selex Galileo built under license at PAC GIDS Shahpar - developed by GIDS. GIDS Shahpar-II
List of military equipment manufactured in Pakistan
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com/launch/2026/01/14/orbital-paradigms-capsule-transmitted-data-despite-pslv-rocket-failure/ "EOS-N1 & Others | PSLV-DL | Next Spaceflight". nextspaceflight
List of spaceflight launches in January–March 2026
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Family of European medium- and heavy-lift rocket launch vehicles
and marketing after its creation in 1980. Arianespace launches Ariane rockets from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana. As a result of
Ariane_(rocket_family)
Upcoming crewed mission of the Artemis program
will launch aboard the Orion spacecraft on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will test rendezvous and
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September 2024. "Falcon 9 Block 5 – Galileo FOC FM26 & FM32". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 17 September 2024. "Launches – Galileo L13 Mission". SpaceX. Retrieved
List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024
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2025 Russian resupply spaceflight to the ISS
Retrieved 9 September 2025. Clark, Stephen (12 September 2025). "Rocket Report: Russia's rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS". Ars Technica.
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European CubeSat satellite mission
reflectometry measuring sea state, sea ice, and ocean currents by receiving Galileo and GPS signals reflected from Earth surface. The secondary payload is
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December 2022. Waldron, Aaron. "Rocket-powered RC car set new world record". LiveRC.com. Retrieved 21 March 2017. "Fastest rocket-powered remote controlled
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Programs by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon
launched with the Proton-K rocket, and a crewed lunar landing using Soyuz 7K-LOK and LK spacecraft launched with the N1 rocket. Following the dual American
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2025 Russian crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station
by children from across the world. This project dubbed "The Art Rocket" and "Rocket of Dreams" was an artistic expression for these kids with cancer
Soyuz_MS-28
Pakistani land- & sea-launched cruise missile
Future software and hardware updates could include the European Union's GALILEO and China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. Pakistan has been converting
Babur_(cruise_missile)
Japanese manga series
combat ship Yǎolóng (咬龍). Both sides end up damaged. 6 "Rocket Boys" "Roketto Bōizu" (ロケットボーイズ) October 18, 2007 (2007-10-18) Malik builds model rockets in
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2026 crewed flyby of the Moon
planned as a single-launch flight of a Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket equipped with the Exploration Upper Stage, carrying a lunar Block 1 Orion
Artemis_II
SpaceNews. Retrieved 30 November 2023. "Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellites". Arianespace (Press release). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January
List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2025
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Glenn rocket on 16 January 2025. The second stage successfully placed its payload into orbit, while the first stage failed to land on the recovery ship offshore
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Estimate of total change in velocity of a space mission
propulsive maneuver needed during the mission. As input to the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, it determines how much propellant is required for a vehicle of
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European Space Agency programme to develop a prototype reusable rocket first stage
to develop a prototype reusable rocket first stage and plans to conduct demonstration flights. The prototype rockets will also be called Themis. As of
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Partially reusable launch system and space plane
aboard the ships MV Freedom Star and MV Liberty Star. Once they were returned to Cape Canaveral, they were cleaned and disassembled. The rocket motor, igniter
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Motion of launched objects due to gravity
applications—from engineering and ballistics to sports science and natural phenomena. Galileo Galilei showed that the trajectory of a given projectile is parabolic,
Projectile_motion
Earth-centered orbit above low Earth orbit and below geostationary orbit
including GLONASS (with an altitude of 19,100 kilometres, 11,900 mi), Galileo (with an altitude of 23,222 kilometres, 14,429 mi) and BeiDou (with an
Medium_Earth_orbit
Payload monitoring the first flight of the Ariane 6 rocket
launched on the inaugural flight of the European rocket Ariane 6 in July 2024 in order to monitor the rocket's flight and operations with cameras and a magnetic
YPSat-1
Human spaceflight programme of the Soviet Union
(1964–1965) programmes. The programme consists of the Soyuz capsule and the Soyuz rocket and is now the responsibility of Roscosmos. After the retirement of the
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1972–2011 United States human spaceflight program
following STS-44. MV Freedom Star was a NASA recovery ship for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters Footnotes The program was suspended between 1986
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Vulcan Centaur and China's Gravity-1, and Long March 12 rockets. The European Ariane 6 rocket also conducted its inaugural flight, though it experienced
2024_in_spaceflight
Passage of an object through the gases of an atmosphere from outer space
ISBN 978-0444893567. Milos, Frank S. (1997). "Galileo Probe Heat Shield Ablation Experiment". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 34 (6): 705–713. Bibcode:1997JSpRo
Atmospheric_entry
2005 compilation album by various artists
"2HB" Roxy Music 4:09 6. "People" Alfie 4:10 7. "Flim" Aphex Twin 2:53 8. "Galileo" (Edit) Mice Parade 1:57 9. "Up the Down Escalator" The Chameleons UK 3:57
Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips
Late_Night_Tales:_The_Flaming_Lips
Measure of the quality of spacecraft
Scientific Assessment of Options for the Disposal of the Galileo Spacecraft (search with CTRL+F for "Galileo's general spaceworthiness"). The National Academies
Spaceworthiness
2024 Chinese resupply spaceflight
the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan, China, on a Long March 7 rocket. On 20 November 2023, CMSA announced that Tianzhou 7 had completed manufacturing
Tianzhou_7
Spaceport in northern Sweden
The base itself covers 20 square kilometers, while the impact area for rockets is 5,600 km2. Located 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, the geographic
Esrange
South Korean satellite launched in 2021
2026-07-06. "SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea". Space. 2026-07-06. Retrieved 2026-07-07. Wikimedia Commons
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Eighth launch of SpaceX Starship
Starship launch vehicle. The launch tower successfully caught Booster 15; Ship 34 was destroyed before completing its planned flight, as during its initial
Starship_flight_test_8
2025 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
Meanwhile, the components for the Soyuz-2.1a rocket were manufactured by RKTs Progress in Samara, Russia, and shipped by rail to Baikonur, where assembly was
Soyuz_MS-27
Crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planets
acceleration of ~1.7•10−3 g, with a ship initial mass of ~1700 metric tons, and payload fraction above 10%. Fusion rockets are considered to be a likely source
Interplanetary_spaceflight
Orbital recoverable launch vehicle of the European company ArianeGroup
methane-fueled rocket engine development project. ArianeGroup plans to use Prometheus first on the smaller, partially reusable Maia rocket, developed by
Ariane_Next
color 19m November 10, 1971 Biology program, unit 1: Ecology; video [335] Galileo's Laws of Falling Bodies Warren P. Everote (producer); Milan Herzog & O
List of Encyclopædia Britannica Films titles
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European satellite for maritime tracking
Messages From 70,000 Ships at Sea in a Single Day". SciTechDaily. 2021-04-03. Retrieved 2025-11-24. Kellner, Jonas (2021-04-27). "Rocket Factory Augsburg
ESAIL
each of whom published works proposing rockets as the means for spaceflight. The first successful large-scale rocket programs were initiated in Nazi Germany
History_of_spaceflight
European weather satellite
"Meteosat third generation Imager 2 to be launched by Arianespace on Ariane 62 rocket". Satellite Evolution. 2025-09-03. Retrieved 2026-01-19. "Second MTG-Imager
MTG-I2
European Space Agency artificial satellite
Space Agency on their own rocket, the Ariane 1. It was only intended to provide data on the launch characteristics of the new rocket and was only powered for
CAT-1
1972 American-Canadian animated TV series
The Declaration of Independence Johannes Gutenberg The History of Rockets Galileo Galilei Early Man Ponce de León The Erie Canal Charles Darwin (1) The
The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel
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NASA orbiter mission to Venus (1989–1994)
computing system on the spacecraft was partially modified equipment from the Galileo. There were two ATAC-16 computers forming one redundant system, located
Magellan_(spacecraft)
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