Cartosat-2A is an Earth observation satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit and the third of the Cartosat series of satellites. The satellite is the thirteenth satellite in the Indian Remote Sensing […]
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Amos-3
AMOS-3 also known as AMOS-60 is an Israeli communications satellite operated by Spacecom. The satellite is powered by twin solar panels and is based on the Israeli AMOS bus. It […]
C/NOFS
C/NOFS or Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System is a satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate to investigate and forecast scintillations in the Earth’s ionosphere.
Picard (satellite)
PICARD is a satellite dedicated to the simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance the diameter and solar shape and to the Sun’s interior probing by the […]
European Retrievable Carrier
The European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) was an unmanned 4.5 tonne satellite with 15 experiments. It was an ESA mission and the acronym was derived from Archimedes’ bathtub revelation; Eureka!.It was […]
CBERS-1
China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite 1 (CBERS-1) also known as Ziyuan I-01 or Ziyuan 1A is a remote sensing satellite which was operated as part of the China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite […]
ATS-3
Applications Technology Satellite 3 or ATS-3 was a long-lived American experimental geostationary weather and communications satellite operated by NASA from 1967 to 2001.[citation needed]It was at one time reputed to […]
Approach and Landing Tests
The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise conducted in 1977 to test the vehicle’s flight characteristics both on […]
Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite
The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite or GOSAT also known as Ibuki (いぶき Ibuki meaning breath or Vitality in Japanese) is an Earth observation satellite and the world’s first satellite dedicated […]
Jules Verne ATV
The Jules Verne ATV or Automated Transfer Vehicle 001 (ATV-001) was an unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). The ATV was named after the 19th-century […]