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Space Rocket History #42 - Satellite Killer - Polyot-1
The Space Age had barely begun when Soviet engineers started planning ways to destroy enemy satellites. Some Western analysts have speculated that a...
Space Rocket History #41 - The First Woman in Space, Vostok 5 & 6 with Bykovsky and Tereshkova - Part 3
During re-entry plasma enveloped Vostok-6. Tereshkova saw pieces of burning material fly past her window and she also smelled smoke entering the cabin…
Space Rocket History #40 - The First Woman in Space, Vostok 5 & 6 with Bykovsky and Tereshkova - Part 2
Vostok 5′s orbit turned out to be lower than the expected 181 by 235 km. The actual orbit was 175 by 222 km. Â Initial calculations indicated the...
Space Rocket History #39 - The First Woman in Space, Vostok 5 & 6 with Bykovsky and Tereshkova - Part 1
In June of 1963, the Soviet Union performed an encore of the Vostok 3 and 4 missions with two manned spaceships orbiting the Earth simultaneously. However,...
Space Rocket History #38 - Syncom 1,2,3, and TIROS 8
Geosynchronous satellites have the advantage of remaining permanently in the same area of the sky, as viewed from a particular location on Earth. Geostationary...
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