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NASA is working on a modelling study that considers the asteroid 101955 Bennu, which has a diameter of 246 meters and capable of a 1.15 gigaton impact, as a modelling target for the HAMMER concept. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is circling the Sun at 63,000 mph and 54 million miles from the Earth .
The following are a list of spacecraft with a mass greater than 8,000 kg (17,637 lb), or the top three to any other orbit including a planetary orbit, or the top three of a specific category of vehicle, or the heaviest vehicle from a specific nation.
Ceres-1 (Chinese: 谷神星一号; pinyin: Gushenxing-1), is a four-stage rocket manufactured and operated by Galactic Energy, the first three stages use solid-propellant rocket motors and the final stage uses a hydrazine propulsion system.
First asteroid known to have more than one moon (determined in 2005) 90 Antiope: 80×80: October 1, 1866: Double asteroid with two nearly equal components; its double nature was discovered using adaptive optics in 2000 92 Undina: 126: 1867 July 7: Created in one of the largest asteroid-on-asteroid collisions of the past 100 million years 216 ...
Largest comsat in the world at time of launch until the launch of TerreStar-1 in 2009 by Ariane 5 and then Telstar 19V on 21 July 2018 by Falcon 9. 15 4 April 2009 00:31 421 AV-016 Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 USA-204 (WGS-2) Military comsat GTO Success [82] 16 18 June 2009 21:32 401 AV-020 Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 LRO/LCROSS: Lunar exploration HEO to ...
The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage bomb with a Trutnev-Babaev [28] second- and third-stage design, [29] with a yield of 50 Mt. [4] This is equivalent to about 1,570 times the combined energy of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, [30] 10 times the combined energy of all the conventional explosives used in World War II, [31] one ...
Mission planning and launcher selection (2017–2021) In 2017, Exploration Mission-2 was a projected single-launch mission of a Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket with an Exploration Upper Stage , lunar Block 1 Orion spacecraft, and a payload insertion of 50.7 tonnes (55.9 short tons ; 112,000 lb ).
The Energia launcher was designed by the Soviet Union to launch up to 105 t (231,000 lb) to low Earth orbit. [8] Energia launched twice in 1987/88 before the program was cancelled by the Russian government , which succeeded the Soviet Union, but only the second flight payload reached orbit.