List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 142

Akatsuki (あかつき 暁 literally dawn) formerly known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C is a Japanese unmanned spacecraft which was intended to explore Venus. It was launched aboard […]

DIRECTV-5 is a communications satellite launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan in May 2002 to provide mainly Spanish language satellite television programs to DirecTV customers from the 119 degrees West longitudinal […]

BelKA (an acronym from Belarusian: Беларускі Касмічны Апарат Belarusian Cosmic Apparatus) was intended to be the first satellite of independent Belarus.It was a remote sensing satellite that utilizes the Victoria […]

Apstar VI is a communications satellite built by Alcatel Space a subsidiary of Alcatel and was boosted into orbit on April 12 2005 by Long March 3B launcher from Xichang […]

Eutelsat 28A (formerly Eurobird 1) is a Eutelsat operated Eurobird satellite used primarily for digital television. It is located at 28.5° east in the Clarke Belt just within the range […]

Telstar 301 is an American communications satellite launched in July 1983 and operated by AT&T. It was one of three Telstar 3 satellites followed by Telstar 302 in 1984 and […]

Intelsat 9 (IS-9) (formerly PAS-9) is an Intelsat Atlantic Ocean region satellite which delivers communications services throughout the Americas the Caribbean and Western Europe.

STS-117 (ISS assembly flight 13A) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on 8 June 2007. Atlantis lifted […]

STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Liftoff was originally scheduled for 7 December 2006 but that attempt was canceled […]

AsiaStar is an American communications satellite which is operated by 1worldspace. It was constructed by Alcatel Space and Matra Marconi Space based on the Eurostar E2000+ bus design. Launch occurred […]