List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 141

STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It delivered and assembled […]

Foton-M No.2 was an unmanned Foton-M spacecraft which carried a mainly[citation needed] European payload for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was placed into orbit by a Russian Soyuz-U rocket […]

ICESat (Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite) part of NASA’s Earth Observing System was a satellite mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance cloud and aerosol heights as well as […]

Seasat was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth’s oceans and had on board the first spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The mission was designed to […]

Aryabhata was India’s first satellite named after the great Indian astronomer of the same name.

STS-118 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by the orbiter Endeavour. STS-118 successfully lifted off on 8 August 2007 from launch pad 39A at […]

PAS-22 previously known as AsiaSat 3 and then HGS-1 was a geosynchronous communications satellite which was salvaged from an unusable geosynchronous transfer orbit by means of the Moon’s gravity.

This is a chronological list of principal expeditions to Mir a Soviet/Russian space station in low Earth orbit from 1986–2001. All principal Mir crews (those that were resident long-term on […]

Cartosat-1 or IRS-P5 is a stereoscopic Earth observation satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit and the first one of the Cartosat series of satellites. The satellite was built launched and maintained […]

Spaceway F1 is part of DirecTV’s constellation of direct broadcast satellites. The satellite was launched via a Zenit 3SL rocket from Sea Launch’s Odyssey equatorial platform on April 26 2005. […]