List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 51

Fengyun 2-07 or FY-2-07 (Chinese: 风云二号07 meaning Wind Cloud 2-07) also known as Fengyun-2F or FY-2F is a Chinese weather satellite operated by China’s National Satellite Meteorological Centre. Part of […]

Zond 3MV-1 No.2 (or No. 4A ) also known as Venera 1964A in the West was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1964 as part of the Zond programme. […]

VesselSat-2 is a Luxembourgian microsatellite built and owned by LuxSpace and operated by Orbcomm under lease. It carries a receiver for Automatic Identification System signals used to track ships at […]

Ziyuan 3 or ZY-3 (Chinese: 资源三号 meaning Resources 3) is a Chinese Earth observation satellite launched in January 2012. It is a high-resolution imaging satellite operated by the Ministry of […]

The Georges Lemaître ATV or Automated Transfer Vehicle 005 (ATV-005) is a European unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft named after the Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch […]

SRMSAT is a Nanosatellite built by students at Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University(SRM UniversityChennai) in India. The satellite is an Indian technology demonstration and Earth observation satellite which will be operated […]

RAX-2 (Radio Aurora Explorer 2) is a miniaturized satellite built as a collaboration between SRI International and students at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. It is the second […]

M-Cubed is a miniaturized satellite built by students at the University of Michigan in joint project run by MXL and JPL . It is an example of the popular CubeSat […]

Yahsat 1A is a communications satellite constructed by EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space for Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat). It was launched in April 2011 from Arianespace’s Guiana […]

USA-230 also known as SBIRS-GEO 1 is an American military satellite and part of the Space-Based Infrared System. It was launched on May 7 2011 from Cape Canaveral atop an […]