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  2. Explorers Program - Wikipedia

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    The Explorers program [1] is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched in 1958, Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft of the United States to achieve orbit.

  3. Category:Explorers Program - Wikipedia

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    Magyar; Македонски ... Pages in category "Explorers Program" The following 123 pages are in this category, out of 123 total. This list may not reflect ...

  4. Explorer 1 - Wikipedia

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    Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The mission followed the first two satellites, both launched by the Soviet Union during the previous year, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2.

  5. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - Wikipedia

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    Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. [6]

  6. Explorer 3 - Wikipedia

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    Explorer 3 was the third satellite in the Explorer small satellite series, which started with Explorer 1, America's first artificial satellite. [2]: 288 The Explorer program was a direct successor to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA)'s Project Orbiter, initiated in November 1954 to use a slightly modified Redstone missile [3] combined with solid-propellant rocket cluster upper stage to ...

  7. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer - Wikipedia

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    Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) was a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters .

  8. Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager - Wikipedia

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    Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI, originally High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager or HESSI or Explorer 81) was a NASA solar flare observatory. It was the sixth mission in the Small Explorer program (SMEX), selected in October 1997 [ 1 ] [ 7 ] and launched on 5 February 2002, at 20:58:12 UTC .

  9. Explorer program - Wikipedia

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    Explorers Program From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.