- Industry: Aerospace
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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
Located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the U.S. government installation that manages and operates America's astronaut launch facilities. Serving as the base for the country's three space shuttles, the NASA field center also conducts unmanned civilian launches from adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. KSC has been the launch site for every U.S. human space flight since December 1968.
Industry:Aerospace
Developer of standards for spacecraft uplink and downlink, including packets.
Industry:Aerospace
The amount of matter in a unit volume of a substance; usually the mass per unit of volume.
Industry:Astronomy
The distance in degrees along the horizon, westward from the south point of the horizon, to the place where a vertical circle through the star or other object intersects the horizon.
Industry:Astronomy
The straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a rotating body and is the line about which that body rotates.
Industry:Astronomy
A measure for distances within the solar system, equal to the mean ditance of the earth from the sun, which is about 93,000,000 miles.
Industry:Astronomy
The great circle of the celestial sphere all points of which are 90 degrees from the poles. It is the plane of the earth's equator projected onto the celestial sphere.
Industry:Astronomy
The speed that any object must acquire in order to escape from a planet's gravitation.
Industry:Astronomy
