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The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

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526 Category Index<br />

Earth observation satellites and<br />

programs (Continued)<br />

Orbview<br />

Pageos (Passive GEOS)<br />

PICASSO-CENA. See CALIPSO<br />

POES (Polar Operational Environmental<br />

Satellite)<br />

QuickScat (Quick Scatterometer)<br />

QuikTOMS (Quick Total Ozone Mapping<br />

Spectrometer)<br />

RADARSAT<br />

remote sensing<br />

RORSAT (Radar Ocean Surveillance<br />

Satellite)<br />

Seasat<br />

Seastar/SeaWiFS<br />

Seawinds<br />

SECOR (Sequential Collation <strong>of</strong> Range)<br />

SPOT (Satellite Proba<strong>to</strong>ire d’Observation<br />

de la Terre)<br />

SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission)<br />

Stella<br />

Terra<br />

TERRIERS (Tomographic Experiment<br />

using Radiative Recombinative<br />

Ionospheric EUV and Radio<br />

Sources)<br />

THEMIS (Time His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> Events and<br />

Macroscale Interaction during<br />

Subs<strong>to</strong>rms)<br />

TIMED (<strong>The</strong>rmosphere Ionosphere<br />

Mesosphere Energetic Dynamics<br />

satellite)<br />

TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)<br />

TOPEX-Poseidon<br />

Triana<br />

TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring<br />

Mission)<br />

VCL (Vegetation Canopy Lidar)<br />

Facilities and research<br />

establishments<br />

Aberdeen Proving Ground<br />

Air Force Flight Test Center<br />

Ames Research Center<br />

Army Ballistic Missile Agency<br />

(ABMA)<br />

Ballistic Research Labora<strong>to</strong>ry. See<br />

Aberdeen Proving Ground<br />

Dryden Flight Research Center<br />

(DFRC)<br />

Edwards Air Force Base<br />

Flight Research Center<br />

Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center<br />

Glenn Research Center (GRC)<br />

Goddard Institute for Space Studies<br />

Goddard Space Flight Center<br />

(GSFC)<br />

Johnson Space Center (JSC)<br />

JPL (Jet Propulsion Labora<strong>to</strong>ry)<br />

Kaliningrad<br />

Kennedy Space Center (KSC)<br />

Langley Research Center<br />

Lewis Research Center. See Glenn<br />

Research Center<br />

Marshall Space Flight Center<br />

(MSFC)<br />

Mississippi Test Facility. See Stennis<br />

Space Center (SSC)<br />

M<strong>of</strong>fett Federal Airfield<br />

Muroc Army Air Field. See Edwards Air<br />

Force Base<br />

Patrick Air Force Base<br />

Plum Brook Research Station<br />

Spadeadam Rocket Establishment<br />

Stennis Space Center (SSC)<br />

Wright Air Development Division<br />

His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> rocketry, spaceflight, and<br />

aviation<br />

“A” series <strong>of</strong> German rockets<br />

A.T. (Aerial Target)<br />

aeolipile<br />

Albertus Magnus (1193–1280)<br />

Archytas (c. 428–c. 350 B.C.)<br />

Bacon, Roger (c. 1214–c. 1292)<br />

Chinese fire-rockets<br />

firsts in spaceflight<br />

Fontana, Giovanni da (c. 1395–1455)<br />

Froissart, Jean (c. 1337–c. 1410)<br />

guided missiles, postwar development<br />

Hero <strong>of</strong> Alexandria (1st century A.D.)<br />

International Geophysical Year (IGY)<br />

International Quiet Sun Years (IQSY)<br />

Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630)<br />

Kettering Bug<br />

Kummersdorf<br />

MOUSE (Minimum Orbital Unmanned<br />

Satellite <strong>of</strong> the Earth)<br />

Mura<strong>to</strong>ri (14th century)<br />

New<strong>to</strong>n, Isaac (1643–1727)<br />

OKB-1<br />

OKB-52<br />

OKB-586<br />

Orbiter, Project<br />

Paperclip, Operation<br />

Peenemünde<br />

rocketry, his<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

Space Race<br />

Stewart Committee<br />

Tipu Sultan (c. 1750–1799)<br />

X planes<br />

Instrumentation<br />

accelerometer<br />

altimeter<br />

avionics<br />

CCD (charge-coupled device)<br />

dust detec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

infrared radiometer<br />

lidar (light detection and ranging)<br />

magne<strong>to</strong>meter<br />

majority rule circuit<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>meter<br />

piggyback experiment<br />

plasma detec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

plasma wave detec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

polarimeter<br />

radar<br />

radiometer<br />

sensor<br />

spectrometer<br />

synthetic aperture radar (SAR)<br />

Inter-satellite communications<br />

Constellation-X<br />

ION-F (Ionospheric Observation<br />

Nanosatellite Formation)<br />

Nanosat Constellation Trailblazer (NCT)<br />

OICETS (Optical Inter-orbit Communications<br />

Engineering Test Satellite)<br />

Space Technology 3. See Starlight<br />

Space Technology 5. See Nanosat Constellation<br />

Trailblazer<br />

Starlight<br />

Three-Corner Constellation<br />

Interstellar and precursor<br />

interstellar missions<br />

Daedalus, Project<br />

intergalactic travel<br />

interstellar precursor mission<br />

interstellar probe<br />

Interstellar Probe<br />

Longshot, Project<br />

Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe<br />

(TAU)<br />

Launch and prelaunch technology<br />

and terminology<br />

BECO (booster engine cut<strong>of</strong>f)<br />

blockhouse<br />

burn pond<br />

command destruct<br />

complex<br />

countdown<br />

crawler-transporter<br />

crawlerway<br />

crew safety system (CSS)<br />

deluge collection pond<br />

explosive bolt<br />

first motion<br />

flame bucket<br />

fly-away disconnects<br />

gantry<br />

go, no-go<br />

hold<br />

holding pond<br />

ice frost<br />

launch<br />

launch control center

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