Satellites Satellites The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) is derived from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) which began service in 1978 on TIROS-N and continued on the NOAA 6 through 14 satellites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit"
Launched 5 years after the U.S.S.R. (now the Russian Federation) sent its satellite Sputnik 1 into orbit in 1957 and 4 years after the America's Explorer 1 was launched in 1958, Alouette I was Canada's first satellite. Occasionally, Alouette I is misrepresented as the third satellite successfully put in orbit, rather than being from the third country ever to do so--but numerous Sputniks and Explorers preceded it. The name "Alouette" came from the French word for " skylark" and from the title of a popular French-Canadian folk song. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alouette 1"
Alouette 2 was launched at 4h48 UTC on November 29, 1965 by a Thor Agena Rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California. It was (like its predecessor Alouette 1, and Explorer 31) designed to explore the ionosphere. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alouette 2"
The site of the Andover Earth Station satellite ground station was selected by AT&T in December 1960. The main factors were the topography of the land and the radio interference signal level. Other factors included a location in the Northeast United States to give a short great circle path to Western Europe, it was located close enough to existing transcontinental radio relay television and telephone routes to facilitate interconnection. In addition, the site had to be large enough to accommodate an antenna structure and control building, and provide for expansion, if necessary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andover Earth Station"
Anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) are weapons designed to be used against artificial satellites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-satellite weapon"
AO-40 is the on-orbit name designation of an Amateur Radio satellite ( AMSAT) of the OSCAR series; formerly known as Phase 3D. ...more on Wikipedia about "AO-40"
AO-51 is the in-orbit name designation of an Amateur Radio satellite ( AMSAT) of the OSCAR series; formerly known as ECHO. It was launched on June 29, 2004 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on a Dnepr launch vehicle. It is in sun synchronous low Earth orbit. ...more on Wikipedia about "AO-51"
Arabsat is a satellite built by Aerospatiale. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabsat"
Astérix, the first French satellite and at the same time the first artificial satellite not launched by either USA or USSR, was launched on November 28, 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria. It was originally designated A-1, as the French Army's first satellite, but later renamed after the popular French cartoon character Astérix. Due to the relatively high altitude of its orbit, it is not expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere for several centuries to come. ...more on Wikipedia about "Astérix (satellite)"
This article should be restructured. See discussion for more details. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balloon satellite"
CASSIOPE is a hybrid satellite project of the Canadian Space Agency. Planned for launch in an elliptical polar orbit in 2007, it will carry a commercial communications system called Cascade and a scientific experiment package called ePOP (enhanced Polar Outflow Probe). This combination gives rise to the acronym CASSIOPE: CAScade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "CASSIOPE"
Cerise was a French millitary reconnaissance satellite. It was hit by a catalogued space junk from an Ariane rocket in 1996, making it the first verified case of a collision between two objects in space. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cerise (satellite)"
CHIPSat (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite) is a microsatellite. It was launched onboard a Delta II alongside the larger ICESat. CHIPSat is the first of NASA's University-Class Explorers (UNEX) mission. The primary science objective is to study the million-degree gas in the interstellar medium. CHIPSat will capture the first spectra of the faint, extreme ultraviolet glow that is expected to be emitted by the hot intersteller gas within about 300 light-years of the sun. ...more on Wikipedia about "CHIPSat" Enjoy shortopedia.
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:For the Cosmos 1 solar sail — not part of this series — see Cosmos 1. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cosmos (satellite)"
Cosmos 1 was a project by The Planetary Society to test a solar sail in space. As part of the project, an unmanned solar sail spacecraft was launched into space at 15:46:09 EDT (19:46:09 UTC) on June 21, 2005, from the submarine Borisoglebsk in the Barents Sea. However, a rocket failure prevented it from reaching its intended orbit. Once in orbit, the spacecraft was supposed to deploy a large sail, upon which photons from the Sun would push, thereby increasing the spacecraft's velocity (the contributions from the solar wind are similar, but of much smaller magnitude). ...more on Wikipedia about "Cosmos 1"
The Cosmos 482 probe, launched March 31, 1972 at 04:02:33 UTC, was an attempted Venus probe which failed to escape low Earth orbit. It was launched by an SL-6/A-2-e launcher 4 days after the Venera 8 atmospheric probe and may have been similar in design and mission plan. After achieving an Earth parking orbit, the spacecraft made an apparent attempt to launch into a Venus transfer trajectory. It separated into four pieces, two of which remained in low Earth orbit and decayed within 48 hours into south New Zealand (known as the Ashburton balls incident), and two pieces (presumably the payload and detached engine unit) went into a higher 210 x 9800 km orbit. It is thought that a malfunction resulted in an engine burn which did not achieve sufficient velocity for the Venus transfer and left the payload in this elliptical Earth orbit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cosmos 482"
Cosmos 954 was a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite ( RORSAT) with an onboard nuclear reactor. The satellite's reactor core failed to separate and boost into a nuclear-safe orbit, and instead remained onboard in an orbit that decayed until the satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere January 24, 1978. The satellite crashed near the Great Slave Lake (in the Northwest Territories, Canada), spreading its radioactive fuel over a 124,000 km² (48,000 mile²) area. Subsequent recovery efforts by a joint American-Canadian team swept the area by foot and air until the Autumn ice breakup in October made further searches impractical. They were ultimately able to recover 12 larger pieces of the satellite. These pieces displayed radioactivity of up to 1.1 sieverts per hour, yet they only comprised an estimated 1% of the fuel. For these recovery efforts, the Canadian Government billed the Soviet Union $15 million. Though the U.S.S.R. paid less than half of that amount, many were surprised that they even acknowledged that a satellite had crashed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cosmos 954"
A CubeSat is a type of space research picosatellite with dimensions of 10×10×10 centimetres (i.e., a volume of exactly one litre), weighing no more than one kilogram, and typically using commercial off-the-shelf electronics components. ...more on Wikipedia about "CubeSat"
David R. Criswell, Ph.D is currently the Director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston. ISSO is the operational agent for the Houston Partnership for Space Exploration. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Criswell" http://www.shortopedia.com never sleeps.
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) monitors meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics for the United States Department of Defense. ...more on Wikipedia about "Defense Meteorological Satellite Program"
The Digibox is a device marketed by British Sky Broadcasting in the UK to enable home users to receive digital satellite television broadcasts ( satellite receiver). An internet service is also available through the device, similar in some ways to the American MSN TV. The first Digiboxes shipped to consumers in mid- 1998, and the hardware reference design is unchanged since. The units are DVB-S compatible, and usually carry the DVB logo on the front. However, their use as a DVB-S receiver for anything other than Sky services is seriously limited by their reduced choice of symbol rates (22,000 and 27,500), and their inability to store more than about 20 non-EPG channels without losing them. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digibox (Sky Television)"
DirecWay, or "DIRECWAY" as it is spelled in official publications, is a U.S.-based provider of one-way and two-way satellite broadband Internet technology and service in U.S. and Europe. The service was originally called DirecPC and was only available as a one-way satellite Internet option (uploading was accomplished with a dial-up modem connection). The original DirecPC service, which is owned by Hughes Network Systems launched in October 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "DirecWay"
Dong Fang Hong I (东方红一号), also known as China 1, was the People's Republic of China's first successful space satellite, launched on April 24 1970 as part of the PRC's Dong Fang Hong space satellite program. It was notable in that, at 173kg, it was heavier than the first satellites of other countries. The satellite carried a radio transmitter. It broadcast the song of the same name, The East Is Red. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dong Fang Hong I"
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