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Venera 7's parachute failed shortly before landing very close to the surface. It impacted at 17 metres per second (56 ft/s) and toppled over, but survived. This caused antenna misalignment making the radio signal very weak, but it was detected (with temperature telemetry) for 23 more minutes before its batteries expired.
Venera 1 (Russian: Венера-1 meaning Venus 1), also known as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 8 was the first spacecraft to perform an interplanetary flight and the first to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet Union 's Venera programme. [1] Launched in February 1961, it flew past Venus on 19 May of the same year ...
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations
The Soviet space program[2] (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized: Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [3][4][5] Contrary to its American, European, and Chinese competitors, which had their programs ...
This is a list of FCC-licensed community radio stations in the United States.The listing is limited to stations with Wikipedia articles, which applies to nearly all community licensees that are "full-power" stations but not to low-power FM community operations (LPFM or LP, for short), some exceptions aside.
Venera 13 (Russian: Венера-13 'Venus 13') was part of the Soviet Venera program meant to explore Venus. Venera 13 and 14 were identical spacecraft built to take advantage of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity. The probes were launched five days apart, with Venera 13 launching on 30 October 1981 at 06:04 UTC and Venera 14 launching on 4 ...
The following is a list of radio stations owned by Cumulus Media. As of 2022, Cumulus owned and operated 404 stations in 85 markets. [ 1 ] Cumulus Media stations are also available on online streaming services iHeartRadio and TuneIn . [ 2 ]
KVTA. / 34.23694°N 119.20250°W / 34.23694; -119.20250. KVTA (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Ventura, California, and serves Ventura County and southern Santa Barbara County. The station is owned by Gold Coast Broadcasting and airs a talk radio format . KVTA broadcasts with 5,000 watts from its transmitter near the ...