Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five crew members monitored scientific experiments and photographed environmental damage on the Earth on the day after they roared into orbit and launched a key NASA communications satellite...
CAPE CANAVERAL--Five astronauts blasted-off yesterday morning in the space shuttle Discovery, ready to deliver a $100 million satellite to orbit on the delayed start of an ambitious 1989 launch schedule aimed at putting America "back in the business of space...
...hours after liftoff, Springer and Bagian were to deploy the 24-ton Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. It will then be carried by its own rocket to a 22,300-mile-high orbit to join two older satellites and complete an orbiting network essential for communicating with future space shuttles and with science and military satellites...
Discovery is to remain in orbit for five days, one hour, seven minutes, landing Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base in California...
...their new type of space reactor, called Topaz, is especially safe. Topaz can produce up to 10,000 watts of power, about ten times as much as previous models. That enables Topaz-powered satellites to fly at such high altitudes, say Soviet scientists, that they will remain safely in orbit for up to 350 years, long enough to lose most of their radioactivity...