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Langmuir probe

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A Langmuir probe is a device used to determine the electron temperature, electron density, and electric potential of a plasma. [1]

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Ball-pen probe

A ball-pen probe is a modified Langmuir probe used to measure the plasma potential in magnetized plasmas.

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Bulgaria 1300

Interkosmos 22, more commonly known as Bulgaria 1300 (Интеркосмос 22-България 1300), was Bulgaria's first artificial satellite.

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C/NOFS

C/NOFS, or Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System was an American satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate to investigate and forecast scintillations in the Earth's ionosphere.

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Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 (lang; lit: Moon-vehicle) is India's second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1.

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COMPASS tokamak

Tokamak COMPASS (COMPact ASSembly) is the main experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic since 2006.

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Cosmic dust

Cosmic dust, also called extraterrestrial dust or space dust, is dust which exists in outer space, as well as all over planet Earth.

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Demeter (satellite)

DEMETER (Detection of Electro-Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions) is a French micro-satellite operated by CNES devoted to the investigation of the ionospheric disturbances due to seismic and volcanic activity.

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Dual segmented Langmuir probe

Dual Segmented Langmuir Probe (DSLP) is an instrument developed primarily by Czech researchers and engineers to study the magnetospheric background plasma flown on board the spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) Proba 2.

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Dusty plasma

A dusty plasma is a plasma containing millimeter (10−3) to nanometer (10−9) sized particles suspended in it.

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Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment

The Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment (DICE) is a scientific mission consisting of two Miniaturized Satellites DICE-1 and DICE-2 flying in formation.

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Dynamics Explorer

Dynamics Explorer was a NASA mission, launched on August 3, 1981 and terminated on February 28, 1991.

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Electron temperature

Temperature is a statistical quantity.

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Europa (moon)

Europa or as Ευρώπη (Jupiter II) is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet.

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Expedition 18

Expedition 18 was the 18th permanent crew of the International Space Station (ISS).

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Explorer 27

Explorer 27 (or BE-C or Beacon Explorer-C or Beacon-C) was a satellite, launched in 1965, designed to conduct scientific research in the ionosphere.

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Explorer 28

Explorer 28 (or IMP-C) was a satellite launched in May 1965 to study Space physics.

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Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry

Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry (FA-MS), is an analytical chemistry technique for the sensitive detection of trace gases.

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Fusion power

Fusion power is a form of power generation in which energy is generated by using fusion reactions to produce heat for electricity generation.

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Index of physics articles (L)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Inertial electrostatic confinement

Inertial electrostatic confinement is a branch of fusion research that uses an electric field to elevate a plasma to fusion conditions.

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Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist and physicist.

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Langmuir

Langmuir may refer to.

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Large Plasma Device

The Large Plasma Device is an experimental physics device at UCLA.

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Levitated dipole

A levitated dipole is a type of nuclear fusion reactor design using a superconducting torus which is magnetically levitated inside the reactor chamber.

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List of CubeSats

The following is a list of CubeSats, nanosatellites used primarily by universities for research missions, typically in low Earth orbits.

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List of International Space Station spacewalks

International Space Station spacewalks are major events in the building and maintaining of the orbital laboratory.

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List of inventions named after people

This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after).

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List of plasma physicists

*Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov.

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List of plasma physics articles

This is a list of plasma physics topics.

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List of things named after Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), American chemist and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science, is the eponym of the topics listed below.

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Mariner 3

Mariner 3 (together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA's Mariner-Mars 1964 project that were intended to conduct close-up (flyby) scientific observations of the planet Mars and transmit information on interplanetary space and the space surrounding Mars, televised images of the Martian surface and radio occultation data of spacecraft signals as affected by the Martian atmosphere back to Earth.

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Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak

The Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) experiment was a nuclear fusion experiment in operation at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Oxfordshire, England, from December 1999 to September 2013.

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Nano-PSI

Nano-PSI is a plasma device at the Differ – Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research research institute in Eindhoven.

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Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska

The Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA), formerly known as the Kodiak Launch Complex, is a dual-use commercial and military spaceport for sub-orbital and orbital launch vehicles.

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon, on Perseus) is one of the four fundamental states of matter, and was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.

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Plasma diagnostics

Plasma diagnostics are a pool of methods, instruments, and experimental techniques used to measure properties of a plasma, such as plasma components' density, distribution function over energy (temperature), their spatial profiles and dynamics, which enable to derive plasma parameters.

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Polywell

The polywell is a type of nuclear fusion reactor that uses an electric field to heat ions to fusion conditions.

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Resonator mode

In the resonator mode, the plasma density does not exceed the critical density.

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Scientific phenomena named after people

This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena).

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SSIES

SSIES, or the Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation thermal plasma analysis package is a suite of instruments built by the William B. Hanson center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and flown on a number of the DMSP satellites.

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SST-1 (tokamak)

SST-1 (steady state superconducting tokamak) is a plasma confinement experimental device in the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), an autonomous research institute under Department of Atomic Energy, India.

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Tancredo-1

Tancredo-1 is a Brazilian picosatellite, it is a TubeSat which was developed by the students from the school Tancredo Almeida Neves, in Ubatuba (SP), with support for the picosat platform made by Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), adapting and integration to launch provided by TuPOD from Italian company and by Agência Espacial Brasileira (AEB).

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Temperature measurement

Temperature measurement, also known as thermometry, describes the process of measuring a current local temperature for immediate or later evaluation.

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Test probe

A test probe is a physical device used to connect electronic test equipment to a device under test (DUT).

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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology.

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TIROS-7

TIROS-7 (also called TIROS-G or A-52) was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite.

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William Gould Dow

William Gould Dow (September 30, 1895 – October 17, 1999) was an American scientist, educator and inventor.

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Yury Lonchakov

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (Юрий Валентинович Лончаков; born 4 March 1965) is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions.

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2008 in spaceflight

The year 2008 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including the first flyby of Mercury by a spacecraft since 1975, the discovery of water ice on Mars by the Phoenix spacecraft, which landed in May, the first Chinese spacewalk in September, and the launch of the first Indian Lunar probe in October.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir_probe

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