The International Astrophysical Observatory `GRANAT` (usually known as Granat; Гранат), was a Soviet (later Russian) space observatory developed in collaboration with France, Denmark and Bulgaria. It was launched on 1 December 1989 aboard a Proton rocket and placed in a highly eccentric four-day orbit, of which three were devoted to observ.....
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(from the article `encyclopaedia`) ...model. More important was the famous Entsiklopedichesky slovar (`Encyclopaedic Dictionary`; 1895), which became known as `Granat` after the Granat ...
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An orbiting Russian X-ray and gamma-ray observatory for studying the sky in the energy range 2 keV-100 MeV; `Granat” is Russian for `garnet.” After an initial period of pointed observations, Granat went into survey mode in September 1994 and continued operating until November 1998. The mission was c...
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Granat is a cultivated variety of potato.
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