Facts Flashcards
Pioneer 10 launch
NASA 1972
Pioneer 10 lost signals and distance
Jan 2003 lost signals august 2009 1000x farther from sun than earth
Can pass aldebaran is 2 million years
Pioneer 11 launch
1973
Pioneer 11 communication lost
1995
Voyager one and two launch
1977
Winter solstice
December 21-22
Summer solstice
June 20-22
Verbal equinox
March 20-21
Autumnal equinox
September 22-23
Stonehenge age
4500 years old
Equinox origin
Latin
Equi equal
Nox night
Sputnik 1and 2 launch
Soviet Union 1957
Sputnik one first sattelite ever launched
Month latter Sputnik two launched
Explorer 1
American launched in 1958
Alouette 1
Made Canada third nation to send a sattelite to space
Anik series
Anik one launched in 1972
Anik f3
Launched in 2007
Mass 5900 kg
Envistat
Environmental sattelite ESA
Launched in 2002
GOCE
Gravity field and steady state ocean circulation explorer
Launched in 2009
Apollo 1
1967 three member crew died due to fire
Canada France Hawaii telescope discovery
2007 discovered black hole 13 million lay away
MOST
Micro variability and oscillation of stars
Launched in 2003
Hubble space telescope
Launched in April 24 1990
James Webb telescope
Will replace Hubble in 2013 located 1.5 million km above earth
Acrecibo observatory
In Puerto Rico largest radio telescope there is
Earthruse
1968 picture took by William anders
Apollo 8
3astronaut mission
International space station
Assembled in space since 1998
Orbits 400 km above earth
Canada arm 2
First used in 1990s
One of three built