Atlas Science

Space exploration

Multiple Choice

A person who is trained for traveling in space

• Astronaut 
• Sputnik
• Light-year
• Satellite

Multiple Choice

A vehicle designed to propel itself by ejecting exhaust gas from one end

• shuttle

• rocket

• satellite

• probe

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orbits a planet, sends waves to and from Earth

• satellite
• spaceprobe
• launch-pad 
• light-year 

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Has no people on it, used to gather information

• spaceprobe
• Space Shuttle
• spacecraft
• launch-pad

Class	Microsatellite (Microsat)
Mass	52.40 kg
Type	Earth Observation
Dimensions	55 cm x 35 cm x 55 cm
Orbit	Low Earth
Payloads	High Precision Telescope (HPT), Spaceborne Multispectral Imager with Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter (SMI w/ LCTF), Middle Field Camera (MFC), Wide Field Camera (WFC)
Launch	March 23, 2016 via Atlas V Rocket from Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, Florida)
Release	April 27, 2016 via International Space Station (ISS)
Mission	Disaster Response and Management - Assess damages caused by natural disasters by taking pre- and post-disaster images in the area. Environmental and Natural Resource Assessment - Multi-spectral Earth Observation for remote sensing applications - Derive geophysical parameters for land and ocean applications.
Images	Total around the world: 45, 572 Philippine land coverage: Approx.38% (17,271 images worth 114,087 km. sq).
Status	Decommissioned (April 6, 2020)

Class	Microsatellite (Microsat)
Mass	52.40 kg
Type	Earth Observation
Dimensions	55 cm x 35 cm x 55 cm
Orbit	Low Earth
Payloads	High Precision Telescope (HPT), Spaceborne Multispectral Imager with Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter (SMI w/ LCTF), Middle Field Camera (MFC), Wide Field Camera (WFC)
Launch	March 23, 2016 via Atlas V Rocket from Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, Florida)
Release	April 27, 2016 via International Space Station (ISS)
Mission	Disaster Response and Management - Assess damages caused by natural disasters by taking pre- and post-disaster images in the area. Environmental and Natural Resource Assessment - Multi-spectral Earth Observation for remote sensing applications - Derive geophysical parameters for land and ocean applications.
Images	Total around the world: 45, 572 Philippine land coverage: Approx.38% (17,271 images worth 114,087 km. sq).
Status	Decommissioned (April 6, 2020)

Multiple Choice

The first satellite launched into space by Russia 

• Space Suit
• Sputnik I

• ISS
• Astronaut

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what was the first creature in space

• a dog

• a human

• a hamster

• monkey

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The first people to walk on the moon. Landed in 1969

• spacecraft 
• ISS 
• Astronaut 
• Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin