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Cosmos ( Turkish: Kosmos) is a 2010 Turkish-Bulgarian drama film, written and directed by Reha Erdem, starring Sermet Yeşil [ az; tr] as a thief and a miracle worker who is welcomed into a tiny, snowbound border village after resuscitating a half-drowned boy. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on April 16, 2010 ...
Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor ; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada , some of the debris landing in the ...
Kosmos 8, also known as Sputnik 18, was launched on 18 August 1962 at 05:02:00 GMT from Kapustin Yar . Orbital mass 337 kg. It was a Soviet DS (Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik) type military satellite built in Ukraine for launch by Kosmos launch vehicles. It was used for military and scientific research and component proving tests.
In astronomy, a free streaming particle, often a photon, is one that propagates through a medium without scattering. Use in defining surfaces [ edit ] Defining an exact surface for an object such as the Sun is made difficult by the diffuse nature of matter which constitutes the Sun at distances far from the stellar core.
Kosmos 2499 was a Russian satellite orbiting the Earth, before breaking up on January 4, 2023. Mission [ edit ] The satellite was launched on May 23, 2014, from Plesetsk , Russia on a Rokot / Briz-KM launch vehicle along with 3 Rodnik-S satellites. [1]
The cosmos ( Ancient Greek: κόσμος, romanized : Kósmos, / ˈkɒzmɒs /, US also /- moʊs, - məs /) [1] is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order. Usage of the word cosmos implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. [2]
List of Kosmos satellites (1751–2000) The designation Kosmos ( Russian: Космос meaning Cosmos) is a generic name given to a large number of Soviet, and subsequently Russian, satellites, the first of which was launched in 1962. Satellites given Kosmos designations include military spacecraft, failed probes to the Moon and the planets ...
Kosmos 2421 was launched on June 25, 2006, on a Tsyklon-2 from LC90 at Baykonur. [4] Other designations are 2006-026A and NORAD 29247. [4] It is a US-PU/Legenda type satellite, and was in a 65 degree, 93 minute circular orbit 410–430 km up. [4] The main body of the satellite finally re-entered and burned up on 19 August 2010.