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Lessons Learned from the Clementine Mission (1997) / Chapter Skim
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... CCDs have now replaced photographic emulsions for sensing visible light in most space science applications. CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales: The French National Space Agency.
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... Magellan The first Shuttle-launched interplanetary spacecraft. Following its launch from Atlantis in 1989, Magellan mapped almost all of Venus's surface using synthetic aperture radar and conducted measurements of the planet's gravitational field.
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... A graduate-student project at Stanford University designed to space-qualify a micromachined infrared sensor developed at JPL. SBIR Space-based Infrared: A series of small satellites designed to provide early warning of the launch of tactical and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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