List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 171

STS-41-D was the 12th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center Florida on August 30 1984 […]

STS-93 marked the 95th launch of the Space Shuttle the 26th launch of Columbia and the 21st night launch of a Space Shuttle. Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle […]

Landsat 7 launched on April 15 1999 is the seventh satellite of the Landsat program. Landsat 7’s primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite photos providing up-to-date […]

Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in a Sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth. It is the flagship of the Earth Observing System (EOS). The name Terra […]

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. The US$720 million spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin under the supervision […]

MESSENGER (an acronym of MErcury Surface Space ENvironment GEochemistry and Ranging) is a robotic NASA spacecraft orbiting the planet Mercury the first spacecraft ever to do so.

Mars 96 (sometimes called Mars 8) was a failed Mars mission launched in 1996 to investigate Mars by the Russian Space Forces and not directly related to the Soviet Mars […]

STS-41-G was the 13th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Challenger launched on October 5 1984 and conducted the second shuttle landing […]

STS-41-B was the tenth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on February 3 1984 and landed on February 11 after deploying […]

STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30 1983 and landed on September 5 conducting the […]