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Unbounded universe Hawking designed a quantum model of an unbounded universe, ...	Universal time In summer in London to obtain the legal time, 1h must be ...
Uranus Uranus has a magnitude of the order of 6, is twice as far ...	UTC Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the current reference ...
Van Allen belts They were detected in 1958 by the American probe Explorer 1, ...	VASIMR Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket - Principle ...
Vega Vega may refer to the star or the Vega launcher. Vega is an ...	Venera The Soviet Venera probes launched from Baikonur, belong to ...
Venus The second planet from the Sun, Venus travels in a nearly ...	Venus Entry Probe The Venus Entry Probe (VEP), is a probe to Venus. Its ...
Venus Express The Venus Express probe, successfully launched on 9 November ...	Vesta The asteroid Vesta was discovered on 29 March 1807 by the ...
Viking The Viking project consisted of two space probes, Viking 1 ...	Viking 1 Viking 1 was successfully launched on 20 August 1975 by a ...
Viking 2 The second Viking mission probe took off for Mars on 9 ...	Vinci engine Vinci is a cryogenic engine (hydrogen/oxygen) re-ignitable ...
VIRTIS VIRTIS is an imaging spectrometer in the visible and ...	VLBI Very long base interferometry. A method in radio-astronomy ...
VLT VLT (Very Large Telescope) - VLTI (Very Large Telescope ...	Voyager 2 Voyager 2 was launched on 20 August 1977 followed by Voyager ...