List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 123

AMC-11 previously GE-11 is a Dutch previously American geostationary communications satellite which is operated by SES World Skies. It is currently positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 131 […]

Ares I-X was the first stage prototype and design concept demonstrator in the Ares I program a launch system for human spaceflight developed by the United States space agency NASA. […]

Resurs-DK No.1 often incorrectly translated as Resurs-DK1 is a commercial Earth observation satellite capable of transmitting high-resolution imagery (up to 0.9 m) to the ground stations as it passes overhead.

The Bhaskara-I and II Satellites were two satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation that formed India’s first low orbit Earth Observation Satellite. They collected data on telemetry oceanography […]

The Glory satellite was a planned NASA satellite mission that would have collected data on the chemical micro-physical and optical properties—and the spatial and temporal distributions—of sulfate and other aerosols […]

JAXA Engineering Test Satellite ETS-VIII (Kiku 8) is the eighth technology test satellite in a series which started with ETS-1 in 1975 by NASDA. It was launched with the H-2A […]

NigComSat-1 was a Nigerian communication satellite. The initial contract to build the satellite was signed in 2004. It became the first African geosynchronous communication satellite when it was launched at […]

Galaxy 17 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat to be located at 91° Westlongitude serving the North American market. Galaxy 17 was intended to replace SBS 6. It was […]

RazakSAT is a Malaysian satellite carrying a high-resolution camera. It was launched into low Earth orbit by a Falcon 1 rocket on July 14 2009. It was placed into a […]

NOAA-15 (designated NOAA-K before launch) is one of the NASA-provided TIROS series of weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. It was launched on 13 May 1998 and is currently operational […]