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Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
[9] Elektro-L No. 1, 2, and 3: Active Russia's Roscosmos: 2011 Fengyun 2D to 4A: Active China Meteorological Administration: 2006 Translated from Chinese, the word Fengyun means "wind cloud." Series 3 satellites are Sun-synchronous and series 2 and 4 satellites are geosynchronous. Formosat-5: Active Taiwan’s National Space Organization (NSPO ...
AMC-11 , previously GE-11, is an American geostationary communications satellite which is operated by SES.It is currently positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 131° West, from where it is used to relay cable television across North America for onward distribution. [1]
The final satellite of the Block IIA series was decommissioned on 09 October 2019. [4] The operational constellation now includes Block IIR, IIRM, IIF and III variants. Because the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles are more powerful than the Delta II , which was used to orbit earlier Block II GPS satellites, they can place the satellites ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 2025. Objects intentionally placed into orbit This article is about human-made satellites. For moons, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). Two CubeSats orbiting around Earth after being deployed from the ISS Kibō module's Small Satellite Orbital Deployer A ...
NSS-9 is a communications satellite owned by SES World Skies. It is an all C-band satellite intended as a replacement for NSS-5 , and has three beams with 44 active C-band transponders. NSS-9 was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation and launched February 12, 2009 aboard Ariane 5 flight V-187.
USA-1, also known as Navstar 9, GPS I-9 and GPS SVN-9, was an American navigation satellite launched in 1984 as part of the Global Positioning System development programme. It was the ninth of eleven Block I GPS satellites to be launched, [ 2 ] and the first satellite to receive a USA designation .
The Helios 2 system, which consists of the Helios 2A and Helios 2B, is a French-developed military Earth observation satellite program. [1] Financed at 90% by France, the development also involved minor participation from Belgium, Spain, Italy and Greece. [2] Helios 2A was launched on 18 December 2004 by an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. [3]