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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 321
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
An analysis is carried out which considers the relationship of orbit mechanics to the satellite navigation problem, in particular, meteorological satellites.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Thunderball (1965, 125 min.): Agent 007 travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who's threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust but not before he feeds Bond to his killer sharks. -- You only live twice (1967, 117 min.): Bond meets up with diabolical Ernst Stavro BLofeld, who has hijacked US and Soviet spaceships. 007 must undertake a pulse-pounding race to prevent nuclear war between the superpowers with the...
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"From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes a riveting thriller pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against the head of a private space agency who has the power to end the world as we know it. It's Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus--France's answer to Space X, owned by the eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard--has just sent a satellite payload...
10) Westwind
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In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on-board: a British man named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, Martin Hepton, an English ground control technician watches as they lose contact...
12) Satellites
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn what satellites do for us.
14) Satellites
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Pub. Date
c1984
Description
Discusses the operation and uses of various kinds of man-made satellites in orbit around the earth.
17) Satellites
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Pub. Date
c1985
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe the uses of artificial satellites and how they are launched and tracked in orbit.
20) Satellites
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
Traces the development of artificial satellites from the rise of rocketry, discussing the historical importance of Sputnik and describing what modern satellites are used for.