Vela was the name of a group of satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United States to detect nuclear detonations and monitor...

Islands Crozet Islands The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near...

and outer-space detonations, and advocated satellites as a potential platform for such detections. The Vela Project started as a small budget research...

Look up Vela or vela in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vela or Velas may refer to: Vela (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky (the Sails)...

of twelve Vela satellites were launched during the course of the Cold War. The Vela satellites became publicly famous because of the Vela Incident which...

Vela 3A (also known Vela 5, Vela Hotel 5 and OPS 6577) was a U.S. reconnaissance satellite to detect explosions and nuclear tests on land and in space;...

Vela 3B (also known Vela 6, Vela Hotel 6 and OPS 6564) was a U.S. reconnaissance satellite to detect explosions and nuclear tests on land and in space;...

neutron physics. Targets for the Production of Neutrons. Vela Satellite Measurements. Vela satellite measurements of particles in the solar wind and the distant...

whether a double flash in the South Atlantic that was detected by a Vela satellite was a nuclear weapons test; however, the result was inconclusive. On...

produced by a nuclear explosion. The first satellites which incorporated bhangmeters were the Advanced Vela satellites. Since 1980, bhangmeters have been included...