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Space charge effect
The space charge effect is the mutual electrostatic repulsion among a beam's charged particles, producing self-fields that defocus the beam; it dominates low-energy, high-intensity accelerators and limits beam intensity.
Space Coast
The Space Coast is the central Atlantic coast of Florida around Brevard County, home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Space cold-atom clock aboard the Chinese space station
The space cold-atom clock (空间冷原子钟, SCAC) is a rubidium clock developed by the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the first cold-atom clock to operate in orbit.
Space colonization
Space colonization: establishing self-sustaining human settlements beyond Earth, distinct from stations or short missions. Covers Moon, Mars and orbital habitats, radiation and life-support barriers, Artemis timelines, and space law.
Space Cop
Space Cop is a 2016 American direct-to-video sci-fi buddy-cop comedy by Red Letter Media's Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa, shot in Milwaukee for $80,000 and self-distributed.
Space Cowboys
Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as aging engineers sent to repair a satellite.
Space Dandy (スペース☆ダンディ)
Space Dandy (スペース☆ダンディ) is a 2014 BONES science-fiction comedy anime, two seasons, 26 episodes, created by Shinichiro Watanabe, following alien hunter Dandy, robot QT, and Meow aboard the Aloha Oe.
Space debris
Space debris, also known as space junk, is any non-functional artificial object in Earth orbit, created by over 6,000 launches since the space age began.
Space Development Agency
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is a U.S. Space Force organization, established in 2019, that develops the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a planned constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit.
Space diplomacy
Space diplomacy is how states and non-state actors conduct international relations involving outer space, from treaty-making and arms control to sharing satellite data for disasters.
Space disposal
Space disposal is a proposed method of launching radioactive waste beyond the biosphere, studied by NASA in the 1970s but abandoned over cost and launch risk.
Space diving
Space diving is the act of jumping from a vehicle or balloon at very high altitude and landing by parachute, most famously from stratospheric balloons.
Space Dynamics Laboratory
Space Dynamics Laboratory is a nonprofit University Affiliated Research Center owned by Utah State University in North Logan, Utah, building sensors and small satellites for defense and NASA programs.
Space Electronic (Florence)
Space Electronic, also known as Space Club, is a discotheque in Florence opened in 1969 by the radical-architecture group Gruppo 9999, hosting rock acts and experimental theater through the 1970s.
Space elevator
A space elevator, also called an orbital tower, is a proposed transportation system in which a tether anchored to Earth's equator extends past geostationary orbit so climbers can reach orbit without rockets.
Space exploration
Space exploration, also called outer space or extraterrestrial exploration, investigates space beyond Earth's atmosphere using crewed and robotic spacecraft, beginning with the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 launch in 1957.
Space Exploration Vehicle
The Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV), formerly the Lunar Electric Rover, is a NASA concept for a pressurized rover letting astronauts live and work on the Moon or Mars.
Space food
Space food is food specially developed, processed, and packaged for astronauts during spaceflight, where it must stay safe and nutritious without refrigeration, conventional cooking, or gravity to control crumbs and liquids.
Space force
United States Space Force (USSF), also called Space Force, the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces, established December 2019 from Air Force Space Command; members are Guardians, about 15,400 personnel, led by the Chief of Space Operations.
Space Force (TV series)
Space Force is a Netflix workplace comedy created by Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, announced January 2019, starring Carell as General Mark R. Naird and John Malkovich as Dr. Adrian Mallory. Two seasons (2020, 2022), canceled April 2022; Rotten Tomatoes 39% season 1, 80% season 2.
Space frame
A space frame, also known as an octet truss, is a three-dimensional structural system of triangulated members that spans large column-free roofs for stadiums, hangars, and exhibition halls.
Space Gen: Chandrayaan
Space Gen: Chandrayaan is a 2026 TVF Hindi web series on JioHotstar, created by Arunabh Kumar and directed by Anant Singh, dramatizing ISRO's journey from the Chandrayaan-2 failure to the Chandrayaan-3 south pole landing, starring Nakuul Mehta and Shriya Saran.
Space Ghost
Space Ghost is a Hanna-Barbera superhero created by Alex Toth, debuting on CBS in 1966, best known for his power bands and for being recast in 1994 as the host of Cartoon Network's surreal talk show Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.
Space Ghost (TV series)
Space Ghost (TV series), also called Space Ghost and Dino Boy, a 1966-1968 Hanna-Barbera CBS Saturday-morning superhero cartoon created by Alex Toth, starring an interplanetary hero with teen sidekicks Jan, Jace, and Blip, later the basis of Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994–2008) is Cartoon Network's first original series, an animated parody talk show hosted by the 1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero Space Ghost, voiced by George Lowe, built from recycled Hanna-Barbera footage and precursor to Adult Swim.
Space group
A space group, also called a Fedorov group, is the group of all symmetry operations of a three-dimensional crystal, combining translations with rotations, mirrors, screws, and glides.
Space hopper
Space hopper (also Hoppity Hop, Hop Ball): inflatable handled ball toy invented by Aquilino Cosani as the Pon-Pon, renamed Space Hopper by Wembley and launched in the UK by Mettoy, a 1970s craze.
Space Hulk
Space Hulk is a two-player Games Workshop board game from 1989 set in Warhammer 40,000, in which Space Marine Terminators fight Genestealers aboard a derelict ship; it won the 1989 Origins Award and has had four editions.
Space Hulk (1993 video game)
Space Hulk (1993) is Electronic Arts' real-time adaptation of the 1989 Games Workshop board game, set in Warhammer 40,000, where players command five Space Marine Terminators against Genestealers using a freeze-time mechanic; released on DOS and Amiga, followed by Vengeance of the Blood Angels.
Space Hulk: Deathwing
Space Hulk: Deathwing is a 2016 first-person shooter by Streum On Studio and Focus Home Interactive, adapting the Space Hulk board game in the Warhammer 40,000 universe; Dark Angels Terminators fight Genestealers on the hulk Olethros, with an Enhanced Edition in 2018.