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Unified S-band, a Common card
The Unified S-band system is a tracking and communication system developed for the Apollo program by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Unified S-band quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Unified S-band card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The USB ground network was managed by the ______ Space Flight Center.
Answer
Goddard. The USB ground network was managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center. From the Unified S-band article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Unified S-band. Unified S-band 68 · Dan Christian 64 · Emil Racoviță 60 · Miloš Crnjanski 56 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It operated in the S band portion of the microwave spectrum, unifying voice communications, television, telemetry, command, tracking and ranging into a single system to save size and weight and simplify operations.
- The USB ground network was managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Commercial contractors included Collins Radio, Blaw-Knox, Motorola and Energy Systems.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Unified S-band article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Unified S-band
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Unified S-band (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA Johnson Space Center Restored by Bammesk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
