Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Langley Research Center, Ames Research Center, First Orbit
23 Oct 2017
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Why space matters: gps, vital for communications. [3] one implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges infeasible for many generations. Imaging for both cloud and surface: 3) navigation, no gps ect, 4) time coordination, global finances run on satellite coordinated time, electrical grid monitoring. Space business: conventional, navigation, imaging, communications, emerging, tourism, minerals & resources. Class roundup: we interact with space daily, space-based infrastructure is a central component of modern civilization, out understanding of key scientific questions is being aided through space exploration, space is geographic, and extremely political. Geography 2090a: space exploration 9/12/2017 2:32:00 pm. Not until we got on mars did people believe it. More than 300 v-s"s were launched at london throughout 1944: caused incredible damage to london, uk, operation paperclip, us was able to launch objects into space by 1946, 1947 the us launched fruit flies into space.
