List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 61

Mir EP-2 was a visiting expedition to the Mir space station conducted in June 1988 by cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev Viktor Savinykh and Aleksandr Aleksandrov. Launched aboard the Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft […]

USA-223 known before launch as NRO Launch 32 (NRO L-32) is an American reconnaissance satellite which was launched in 2010. It is operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office. […]

NanoSail-D2 is a small satellite built by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center to study the deployment of a solar sail in space. It is a three-unit […]

Mir EP-3 was a week-long manned spaceflight to the Soviet space station Mir during the long-duration expedition Mir EO-3. It was the sixth manned spaceflight to Mir and was launched […]

Mir EO-2 (also called Mir Principal Expedition 2) was the second long duration expedition to the Soviet space station Mir and it lasted from February to December 1987. The mission […]

Kosmos 396 (Russian: Космос 396 meaning Cosmos 396) was an test flight of the Zenit-4M military surveillance satellite. The Zenit satellite’s purpose was high resolution photographic reconnaissance. This particular test […]

Kosmos 656 (Russian: Космос 656 meaning Cosmos 656) was an unmanned test of the Soyuz 7K-T a variant of the Soyuz spacecraft. This Soyuz variant was intended for flights to […]

Soyuz 6 EP-1 was a 1978 Soviet manned space flight to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station during the expedition EO-1. It was the third manned flight to the station […]

Salyut 6 EO-1 was a Soviet long duration space expedition the first to dock successfully with the space station Salyut 6. The two person crew stayed were in space for […]

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is a joint mission between JAXA and NASA as well as other international space agencies to make frequent (every 2-3 hours) observations of Earth’s precipitation. It […]