Chandrayaan-1 (Sanskrit: चन्द्रयान-१ lit: Moon vehicle About this sound pronunciation ) was India’s first unmanned lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008 and […]
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NOAA-4
NOAA-4 also known as ITOS-G was a weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was part of a series of satellites called ITOS or improved […]
Explorer 6
Explorer 6 or S-2 was an American satellite launched on August 7 1959. It was a small spheroidal satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies galactic cosmic rays […]
Advanced Composition Explorer
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is a NASA Explorer program Solar and space exploration mission to study matter comprising energetic particles from the solar wind the interplanetary medium and other sources. […]
Deep Space Climate Observatory
Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) (formerly known as Triana unofficially known as GoreSat) is a NOAA Earth observation and solar weather satellite scheduled to be launched by SpaceX in early […]
Jason-1
Jason-1 is a satellite oceanography mission to monitor global ocean circulation study the ties between the ocean and the atmosphere improve global climate forecasts and predictions and monitor events such […]
Courier 1B
Courier 1B was the world’s first active repeater satellite after launch on 4 October 1960. Courier was built by the Palo Alto California–based Western Development Labs (WDL) division of Philco […]
AO-51
AO-51 is the in-orbit name designation of a now defunct (following battery failure) LEO amateur radio satellite of the OSCAR series; formerly known as ECHO built by AMSAT. It was […]
Polyus (spacecraft)
The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс pole) also known as Polus Skif-DM GRAU index 17F19DM was a prototype orbital weapons platform designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.
Explorer 35
Explorer 35 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary studies at lunar distances of the interplanetary plasma magnetic field energetic particles and solar X rays. It was launched into an […]