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Guild Wars 2 is a free-to-play, [2] massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSoft.Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the core game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, a disbanded guild dedicated to fighting Elder Dragons, colossal Lovecraftian-esque entities that have seized control of Tyria in the time since the original Guild Wars (2005 ...
Guild Wars 2: Standalone game 2013 Rytlock's Critter Rampage: Free browser game 2013 Guild Wars: Sea of Sorrows: Novel by Ree Soesbee: 2015 Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns: Expansion pack 2017 Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire: Expansion pack 2022 Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons: Expansion pack 2023 Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure: Expansion pack 2024
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
STS-99 was a Space Shuttle mission using Endeavour, that launched on 11 February 2000 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The primary objective of the mission was the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) project. This was also the last solo flight of Endeavour; all future flights for Endeavour became devoted to the International Space ...
Space shuttle Atlantis touches down at the KSC to conclude the STS-81 mission. Docking occurred at 22:55 EST, January 14, followed by hatch opening at 00:57 January 15. Linenger officially traded places at 04:45 with Blaha who spent 118 days on the station and 128 days total on-orbit.
The first seven-person Shuttle mission had been STS-41-G in October 1984. [4] STS-61-A was not the first Space Shuttle flight of an ESA astronaut or a West German citizen, as Ulf Merbold, who also served as the backup on this mission, had previously flown on the STS-9 mission in 1983, [5] but Wubbo Ockels became the first Dutch citizen in space.
One antenna was located in the Shuttle's payload bay, the other – a critical change from the SIR-C/X-SAR, allowing single-pass interferometry – on the end of a 60-meter (200-foot) mast that extended from the payload bay once the Shuttle was in space. [2] The technique employed is known as interferometric synthetic aperture radar.