Eutelsat 25C (formerly known as Eutelsat W5 Eutelsat 3F1 and Eutelsat W1 Eutelsat 70A) is a telecommunications satellite owned by Eutelsat Consortium. Eutelsat W5 provides coverage to Western Europe Central […]
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Edoardo Amaldi ATV
The Edoardo Amaldi ATV or Automated Transfer Vehicle 003 (ATV-003) was a European unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft named after the 20th-century Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi. The spacecraft was launched by […]
Radio Aurora Explorer
Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) is the first National Science Foundation sponsored CubeSat mission. The RAX mission is a joint effort between SRI International in Menlo Park California and the University […]
Mir EO-6
Mir EO-6 was the sixth long duration expedition to the space station Mir. The two crew members were Anatoli Soloviyov (Commander) and Aleksandr Balandin (Flight Engineer).
Chasqui I
Chasqui I was a late-2000s one-kilogram satellite project. The concept satellite was intended to be equipped with two cameras a visible and an infrared which could take photos of the […]
Chang’e 3
Chang’e 3 (pronunciation: /tʃæŋˈər/; simplified Chinese: 嫦娥三号; traditional Chinese: 嫦娥三號; pinyin: Cháng’é sān hào) is a lunar exploration mission operated by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) incorporating a robotic […]
Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit
The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX a space transportation company in Hawthorne California. After using it for ground tests to […]
Mir EO-5
Mir EO-5 was the 5th long duration expedition to the space station Mir which lasted from September 1989 to February 1990. The two person crew was launched and landed in […]
Compass-G1
Compass-G1 also known as Beidou-2 G1 is a Chinese navigation satellite which will become part of the Compass navigation system. It was launched in January 2010 and became the third […]
SAC-D
SAC-D (Spanish: Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-D meaning Satellite for Scientific Applications-D) also known as Aquarius after its primary instrument is an Argentine Earth science satellite built by INVAP and launched […]