Information about 2000 In Spaceflight

Spaceflight is the use of space technology to fly a spacecraft into and through outer space.

Spaceflight is used in space exploration, and also in commercial activities like space tourism and satellite telecommunications.
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20th century - 21st century
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2000 by topic:
News by month
Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun
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rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine.

The history of rockets goes back to at least the 13th century^[1].
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ORBit is a CORBA compliant Object Request Broker (ORB). The current version is called ORBit2 and is compliant with CORBA version 2.4. It is developed under the GPL license and is used as middleware for the GNOME project.
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January 21 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

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Atlas II

Launch of an Atlas II rocket. (NASA)
Fact sheet
Function Medium expendable Launch vehicle
Manufacturer Lockheed Martin
Country of origin USA
Size
Height 47.54 m (156 ft)
Diameter 3.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) was a launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Merritt Island, Florida. The complex was used for the Atlas rocket between 1962 and 2005.
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Location: Merritt Island, Florida, USA

Coordinates: _ ]
Area: 1325 acres^[]
Built/Founded: 1950+^[1]

Added to NRHP: April 16, 1984
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United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. Previously part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947.
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A geosynchronous orbit is an orbit around the Earth with an orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period. This synchronization means that for an observer at a fixed location on Earth, a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit returns to exactly the same place in the sky
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Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) is a global telecommunications company, based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and several other countries in the Americas. It is present also in Turkey.
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Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.
• Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.

Note: The date "Jan/25/1994" is "commemorated" as a font-character in the (MS Win98) "HM Phonetic" font (@1994) -- possibly its "birthday".
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Ariane 4 was an expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace.

The development program began in 1983 and the first successful launch was on 15 June 1988.
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Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais or CSG) is a French spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport due to its proximity to the equator, and the fact that launches in the
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Commune of
Kourou

Aerial view of Kourou

Location

Location of the commune (in red) within French Guiana
Coordinates

Administration
Country
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A French company, founded in 1980, Arianespace SA^[1] undertakes the production, operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part of the Ariane programme. It was the world's first commercial space transportation company.
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A geosynchronous orbit is an orbit around the Earth with an orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period. This synchronization means that for an observer at a fixed location on Earth, a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit returns to exactly the same place in the sky
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Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) is a global telecommunications company, based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and several other countries in the Americas. It is present also in Turkey.
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Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.
• Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.

Note: The date "Jan/25/1994" is "commemorated" as a font-character in the (MS Win98) "HM Phonetic" font (@1994) -- possibly its "birthday".
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This article contains information regarding a rocket which is either currently in the process of launching, or is scheduled to launch within the next 8 days.
Details may change as the countdown and ascent progress.
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The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) (Chinese: 西昌卫星发射中心; Pinyin: Xīchāng Weìxīng Fāshè Zhōngxīn
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Cosine All Sine Tangent), a trigonometry mnemonic used to memorise the positive trigonometric functions in each quadrant of a circle (starting with quadrant IV and continuing counter-clockwise)

CAST, Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial

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A geosynchronous orbit is an orbit around the Earth with an orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period. This synchronization means that for an observer at a fixed location on Earth, a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit returns to exactly the same place in the sky
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Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) is a global telecommunications company, based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and several other countries in the Americas. It is present also in Turkey.
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January 27 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
• 672 - St.

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Minotaur

Minotaur-1 rocket launching Mightysat-2.1 satellite
Fact sheet
Function Small orbital launch vehicle
Manufacturer Orbital Sciences
Country of origin USA
Size
Height 19.21 m (63.02 ft)
Diameter 1.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base (IATA: VBG, ICAO: KVBG, FAA LID: VBG) is a United States military installation with a spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the base population was 6,151.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation

Public (NYSE: ORB )
Founded 1982
Headquarters Dulles, Virginia

Key people David W. Thompson, CEO
J.R. Thompson, COO
Garrett E.
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The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Weber State University is a public university located in the city of Ogden in Weber County, Utah, USA.

History

Weber State University was founded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the Weber Stake Academy in 1889; like Weber County and the Weber River,
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