List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 137

Odin is a Swedish satellite working in two disciplines; astrophysics and aeronomy and it was named after god Odin. Within the field of astrophysics Odin is used in the study […]

CloudSat is a NASA Earth observation satellite which was launched on a Delta II rocket on 28 April 2006.

CALIPSO is a joint NASA (USA) and CNES (France) environmental satellite built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28 2006. […]

STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS and the […]

Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) was a German satellite launched July 15 2000 from Plesetsk Russia and was used for atmospheric and ionospheric research as well as other geoscientific applications such […]

FalconSAT-2 was a satellite built by students of the United States Air Force Academy as part of the FalconSAT programme. It was intended to have been placed into low Earth […]

Venera 2MV-2 No.1 also known as Sputnik 21 in the West was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1962 as part of the Venera programme and was intended to […]

Astérix the first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a Diamant A rocket from Hammaguir Algeria. With Astérix France became the sixth country to have an artificial […]

Intelsat 708 was a telecommunications satellite built by the American company Space Systems/Loral intended to be launched into a geostationary orbit and operated by Intelsat. It was destroyed during a […]

SPACEWAY-3 is a communications satellite which as of August 2007 is undergoing on-orbit testing after its successful launch. The third satellite in the SPACEWAY series it includes a Ka-band communications […]