Sentences with phrase «sized space explorers»

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The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

The report also found that its Explorer program that has supported small - and medium - sized missions such as NASA's Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ranked second in priority for large - cost space projects.

A new status bar for Explorer that shows the total size of the selected files and the free disk space.