CAP BILLY MITCHELL AEROSPACE
MILESTONE TEST
apogee - Correct Answers -highest point of orbit
COMSAT - Correct Answers -communications satellite
perigee - Correct Answers -lowest point of orbit
GNSS - Correct Answers -Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS - Correct Answers -Global Positioning System
kepler - Correct Answers -discovered satellites of jupiter
year that sputnik was launched - Correct Answers -1957
How many artificial satellites - Correct Answers -over 24,00
What was first coms satellite and what year - Correct Answers -Score, 1958
1st commercial satellite and year? - Correct Answers -1962, Telstar 1
ITSO - Correct Answers -International Telecommunications Satellite Organization,
world's largest commercial satellite communications provider; now called INTELSAT
TDRSS - Correct Answers -covereage for low earth-orbiting satellites, relays data
1st nav satellite for polaris missile submarines? - Correct Answers -Transit
1st probe to photograph Moon before apollo? - Correct Answers -Rangers
What program took flybys of Mercury, Venus, and Mars? - Correct Answers -Mariner
Mission for Jupiter and Saturn - Correct Answers -Pioneer, Voyager 1 + 2
Mission for Mars - Correct Answers -Viking
Gave 1st theory of motion of celestial bodies, which was geocentric - Correct Answers -
Ptolemy
, Gave heliocentric theory - Correct Answers -Copernicus
Kepler's 1st law - Correct Answers -Orbit of a planet is an ellipse with sun at the focus
x-37 - Correct Answers -Advances in tech flight demonstrator - military space plane
Join project with Soviet union - Correct Answers -Apollo-Soyuz, 1975
Achieved 1st walk in space & 2 man capsule - Correct Answers -Gemini, 2nd program
1st manned spaceflight - Correct Answers -Mercury, 1st program
Project putting laboratory in space - Correct Answers -Skylab, 1973
1st man in space - Correct Answers -Yuri Gagarin
1st woman in space - Correct Answers -Valentina Tereshkova, 1963
1st to walk in space - Correct Answers -Alexei Leonov, 1965
Soviet Union's 1st space station - Correct Answers -Salyut 1
US 1st satellite - Correct Answers -Explorer 1, 1958
Space Shuttle - Correct Answers -enterprise used for testing
1st US spacewalk - Correct Answers -Ed White
Mission that put Sally Ride in space - Correct Answers -Challenger
Mission used for Hubble - Correct Answers -Discovery
ISS - Correct Answers -1998, purpose to complete long-term exploration
Largest satellite in space - Correct Answers -ISS
A spacewalk is an example of - Correct Answers -Extravehicular Activity (EVA)
1st use of manned maneuvering unit (MMU) - Correct Answers -1984
Cybercrime - Correct Answers -crime involving a computer and a network
Cyberwarfare - Correct Answers -use of technology to attack a nation via network
communications
MILESTONE TEST
apogee - Correct Answers -highest point of orbit
COMSAT - Correct Answers -communications satellite
perigee - Correct Answers -lowest point of orbit
GNSS - Correct Answers -Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS - Correct Answers -Global Positioning System
kepler - Correct Answers -discovered satellites of jupiter
year that sputnik was launched - Correct Answers -1957
How many artificial satellites - Correct Answers -over 24,00
What was first coms satellite and what year - Correct Answers -Score, 1958
1st commercial satellite and year? - Correct Answers -1962, Telstar 1
ITSO - Correct Answers -International Telecommunications Satellite Organization,
world's largest commercial satellite communications provider; now called INTELSAT
TDRSS - Correct Answers -covereage for low earth-orbiting satellites, relays data
1st nav satellite for polaris missile submarines? - Correct Answers -Transit
1st probe to photograph Moon before apollo? - Correct Answers -Rangers
What program took flybys of Mercury, Venus, and Mars? - Correct Answers -Mariner
Mission for Jupiter and Saturn - Correct Answers -Pioneer, Voyager 1 + 2
Mission for Mars - Correct Answers -Viking
Gave 1st theory of motion of celestial bodies, which was geocentric - Correct Answers -
Ptolemy
, Gave heliocentric theory - Correct Answers -Copernicus
Kepler's 1st law - Correct Answers -Orbit of a planet is an ellipse with sun at the focus
x-37 - Correct Answers -Advances in tech flight demonstrator - military space plane
Join project with Soviet union - Correct Answers -Apollo-Soyuz, 1975
Achieved 1st walk in space & 2 man capsule - Correct Answers -Gemini, 2nd program
1st manned spaceflight - Correct Answers -Mercury, 1st program
Project putting laboratory in space - Correct Answers -Skylab, 1973
1st man in space - Correct Answers -Yuri Gagarin
1st woman in space - Correct Answers -Valentina Tereshkova, 1963
1st to walk in space - Correct Answers -Alexei Leonov, 1965
Soviet Union's 1st space station - Correct Answers -Salyut 1
US 1st satellite - Correct Answers -Explorer 1, 1958
Space Shuttle - Correct Answers -enterprise used for testing
1st US spacewalk - Correct Answers -Ed White
Mission that put Sally Ride in space - Correct Answers -Challenger
Mission used for Hubble - Correct Answers -Discovery
ISS - Correct Answers -1998, purpose to complete long-term exploration
Largest satellite in space - Correct Answers -ISS
A spacewalk is an example of - Correct Answers -Extravehicular Activity (EVA)
1st use of manned maneuvering unit (MMU) - Correct Answers -1984
Cybercrime - Correct Answers -crime involving a computer and a network
Cyberwarfare - Correct Answers -use of technology to attack a nation via network
communications
