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- noun Plural form of
observatory .
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Temporal variations in the active layer and near-surface permafrost temperatures at the long-term observatories in Northern Alaska.
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"observatories" linked by cable and satellite to onshore laboratories.
Free Internet Press 2010
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These notional missions include observatories designed to operate in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), at Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), and at Earth-Sun Lagrangian points L1 and L2.
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A permanent human outpost of the Moon, development of lunar resources, deployment of large space observatories, and ambitious missions to the outer planets: all of these have been pushed out into the future by 20 years or more.
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Quick inconvenient question ... observatories at LEO, GEO, and Lagrange points to do what?
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What of observatories at more distant locations, such as the EML-2 or SEL-2 points?
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They launched interplanetary probes and major orbital observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope.
Shuttle's Last Flight Leaves Russia With Space Monopoly Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Launching the shuttle to fix the HST put the entire program at risk while NOT furthering this stated primary objective, i.e., finishing the ISS so we can move on (and afford) Constellation ... all in the context of there being other assets available (computer-enhanced ground observatories now, JWST later) to provide much the same data when the HST finally died.
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NHS-funded public health observatories in London, the north-west and the north-east – which are not scheduled to close – are nevertheless also at risk, says the Commons health select committee.
David Cameron's pledge to protect NHS clouded by emerging reality of cuts 2011
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To do new things that those observatories don't do.
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