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Parent topics
- Orbital mechanics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Telemetry [r]: Electromagnetic transmission of the observations taken by remote sensors [e]
Subtopics
- Rocket motor [r]: A means of generating thrust, for propulsion or for adjusting a position, based on the hot gases expelled by a mixture of chemicals that does not need an external oxygen source [e]
- Staging (rocket) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space launch vehicle [r]: A means of transportation through the atmosphere and into outer space; it may return, go into satellite orbit, or into an escape trajectory. Ballistic missiles are excluded [e]
- European Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [r]: Independent agency of the U.S. government responsible for the nation's public space program. [e]
- Mercury program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gemini program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saturn (space launch vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Apollo program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space Shuttle [r]: The spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. [e]
- Ares (space launch vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. [e]
- Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity [e]
- SS-1 SCUD [r]: A Soviet-designed short range and inaccurate ballistic missile, a near-copy of the Second World War V-2 missile, that was widely exported, copied, employed as a base for new development, and used in combat by Iraq [e]
- Submarine launched ballistic missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- V-2 [r]: World's first operational ballistic missile, developed by Nazi Germany: (Vergeltungswaffe 2). [e]
- Atlas (missile) [r]: The first operational intercontinental ballistic missile fielded by the United States, derivatives of which are still used as space launch vehicles [e]
- Anti-ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile that is capable of destroying a ballistic missile, usually by "hit-to-kill" physical collision during boost phase, midcourse, or terminal phase of the target's trajectory [e]
- Anti-cruise missile missile [r]: A somewhat loosely defined category of weapons for defending against the highly variable flight paths of cruise missiles; such weapons may have optimizations against cruise missile carrier aircraft, against cruise missiles with a high-altitude atmospheric midcourse, against a terrain-following low-altitude midcourse, or popups and zigzags in the final attack on a ship [e]
- Unguided rocket [r]: A form of artillery weapon that uses a rocket motor to propel a warhead at a target, using no guidance once launched [e]
- Multiple rocket launcher [r]: In modern use, a family of mobile artillery systems, firing unguided rockets intended for area-effect coverage, complementing howitzers for point targets. These systems, however, increasingly use guided rounds. [e]
- X-1 (aircraft) [r]: A rocket powered aircraft which, in 1947, was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled level flight. [e]
- Wernher von Braun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cosmonaut [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Astronaut [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Dornberger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yuri Gagarin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Goddard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ham (chimpanzee) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Heinlein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laika (dog) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Shepard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Vandenberg Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Baikonur Cosmodrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cape Canaveral [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centre Spatial Guyanais [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Goddard Space Flight Center [r]: Located in the Washington, DC suburb of Greenbelt, Maryland, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility primarily concerned with unmanned space science satellites; it is also the operations center for NASA's network, and the primary repository for stored telemetry [e]
- Kennedy Space Center [r]: On the Florida coast at Cape Canaveral, the primary launch site for U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and military satellites whose orbits benefit from an eastern starting point (i.e., principally those not in polar or Moliyna orbit; supported by Patrick Air Force Base [e]
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space flight [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Satellite orbits [r]: The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body. [e]
- Atmospheric reentry [r]: The movement of human-made or natural objects as they enter the atmosphere of a planet from outer space, in the case of Earth from an altitude above the 'edge of space.' [e]
- Ballistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ballistic missile defense [r]: A combination of sensors, command and control systems, and missile/warhead kill mechanisms that protect a region, or, in the case of the U.S., theaters of operations as well as the nation proper. [e]
- Missile Technology Control Regime [r]: Informal and voluntary association of countries which share the goals of non-proliferation of unmanned delivery systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction. [e]
- United States Strategic Command [r]: The U.S. unified headquarters for the missions of worldwide nuclear and conventional precision strike; command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of strategic operations; global network operations of the Global Information Grid, information operations, ballistic missile defense, and reduction of Weapons of Mass Destruction threats [e]
- North American Air Defense Command [r]: The joint Canada-U.S. military organization responsible for aerospace threat warning and defense for North America [e]
- Anti-tank weapon [r]: A guided or unguided weapon intended to penetrate armored fighting vehicles; may be a cannon-fired projectile, unguided rocket, gravity bomb, cluster submunition or land mine, or other means of disabling or destroying the target [e]
- Jet engine [r]: A reaction motor that generates thrust by expelling fluid at high speed; the fast-moving fluid must be produced by a process dependent on some resources in the external environment, as opposed to the self-contained rocket motor [e]
- Fireworks [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gunpowder [r]: Generically, a low explosive used as a propellant, especially smokeless powder; the older black powder was used as a warhead filler before the invention of high explosives; also used in pyrotechnics [e]
- Star Trek [r]: Popular American science fiction television series, created by Gene Roddenberry. The original series was short-lived but gained an enormous cult following and helped bring sci-fi further into the main stream. Star Trek spawned an entire fictional universe, films, other series and an extremely successful business enterprise. It launched the careers of many actors and paved the way for even more successful space fiction such as Star Wars. [e]
