Background Between Sputnik’s launching in October 1957 and the lunar landing in July 1969 America sponsored five human spaceflight projects. NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were well publicized and to varying degrees Presidents ...
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Correlation Techniques for Deep Space ‘Uncorrelated Targets’, March 13, 1979
Background According to this document: The surveillance fences of SPACETRACK detect and track a large number of space objects that do not correlate with known objects in the satellite catalog. This note describes the techniques developed at ...
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Status Reports and Memos
Background The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit organization, is the manager of the International Space Station United States National Laboratory, a US government-funded laboratory with principal research ...
Research Needs: Prime-Power for High Energy Space Systems, June 1982
Background According to the document: “By the year 2000, an increasingly large portion of our national defense will depend on space-based systems. As part of a broader set of new research initiatives in support of space systems, the Air ...
Into the Unknown Together. The DOD, NASA, and Early Spaceflight, September 2005
Background Between the 4 October 1957 launching by the Soviet Union of the first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik I, and the successful American landing and return from the moon in July 1969, the United States sponsored five ...
