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The third report, Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980s, was released in 1982. [7] The committee was chaired by George B. Field. It recommended the launch of the "Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility", which was realized in 1999 as the Chandra X-ray Observatory. [9]
12 November 1980: Saturn flyby (closest approach 124,000 km), close encounter of Titan and encounters with a dozen other moons. USA (NASA) Voyager 1: 12 April 1981: First reusable crewed orbital spacecraft (Space Shuttle). USA (NASA) STS-1: 1 March 1982: First Venus soil samples. First sound recording of another world (Venus). USSR Venera 13: ...
The High Energy Astronomy Observatory Program was a NASA program of the late 1970s and early 1980s that included a series of three large low-Earth-orbiting spacecraft for X-ray and Gamma-Ray astronomy and Cosmic-Ray investigations.
1980 Development of ENQUIRE and MS-DOS begin. 1981 MS-DOS debuts. 1982 The first compact discs are sold, which would eventually replace the audiocassette in the 1990s. 1983 Computer "virus" terminology introduced by Fred Cohen. [2] Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software launched. [3] 1984 The Apple Macintosh is released. FidoNet begins. 1985
The year 1980 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space exploration. February 16 ...
The concept of a Great Observatory program was first proposed in the 1979 NRC report "A Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980s". [1] This report laid the essential groundwork for the Great Observatories and was chaired by Peter Meyer (through June 1977) and then by Harlan J. Smith (through publication).
The study of X-ray astronomy continued to be carried out using data from a host of satellites that were active from the 1980s to the early 2000s: the HEAO Program, EXOSAT, Ginga, RXTE, ROSAT, ASCA, as well as BeppoSAX, which detected the first afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Data from these satellites continues to aid our further ...
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