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The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA's field centers. [1] LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research but has also tested space hardware such as the Apollo Lunar Module. In addition, many of the earliest high ...
Beacon was an International Geophysical Year (IGY) satellite program developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Space Vehicle Group at Langley under aeronautical engineer William James O'Sullivan, Jr. O'Sullivan held the belief that measuring the air density at orbital altitudes would be of critical importance to a space agency and that a simple balloon satellite, several ...
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Satellite Country Date Organization Notes Explorer 8: United States: 3 November 1960: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ionospheric studies; decayed from orbit on 28 March 2012. Explorer 9: United States: 16 February 1961: Langley Research Center : Thermosphere and exosphere studies; decayed from orbit on 9 April 1964. Explorer S-56a: United States ...
USS Langley (CVL-27), a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, active in World War II, and transferred to France in 1951; Others: USS Langley, a Unix Space Server which provides proof of concept for global internet access via a nanosatellite constellation. The satellite was launched aboard the Atlas V mission designated as USA-261 on 20 ...
Discoverer 1 was the first of a series of satellites which were part of the CORONA reconnaissance satellite program. It was launched on a Thor-Agena A rocket on 28 February 1959 at 21:49:16 GMT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was a prototype of the KH-1 satellite, but did not contain either a camera or a film capsule. [4]
The 480th ISR Wing leads Air Force globally networked ISR operations. The wing operates and maintains the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), also known as the AN/GSQ-272 "Sentinel" weapon system, conducting imagery, cryptologic, and measurement and signatures intelligence activities.
The order for long lead items for WGS-7 was placed in August 2010. The final contract for this satellite was awarded in September 2011, together with long lead items for WGS-8 and an option for WGS-9. Built by Boeing Satellite Systems, WGS-7 is based on the BSS-702HP satellite bus. It had a mass at launch of 5,987 kg (13,199 lb), and was ...