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A graveyard orbit, also called a junk orbit or disposal orbit, is an orbit that lies away from common operational orbits. One significant graveyard orbit is a supersynchronous orbit well beyond geosynchronous orbit. Some satellites are moved into such orbits at the end of their operational life to reduce the probability of colliding with ...
Not to be confused with Graveyard orbit. The spacecraft cemetery, known more formally as the South Pacific Ocean (ic) Uninhabited Area, [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a region in the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand, [ 3 ] where spacecraft that have reached the end of their usefulness are routinely crashed. The area is roughly centered on " Point Nemo ...
31 August 1962 – President John F. Kennedy signs the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 providing the regulatory framework for private companies in the United States to own and operate their own satellites. 6 April 1965 – Intelsat Intelsat 1 known as "Early Bird" was the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in ...
Category. : Derelict satellites. This category is for derelict satellites that are currently in orbit. A derelict satellite is an artificial satellite that has been abandoned, neglected, or has become nonfunctional but remains in an orbit of any kind in space. The term is specific to manmade objects and includes satellites, spacecraft and spent ...
Collision avoidance (spacecraft) Spacecraft collision avoidance is the implementation and study of processes minimizing the chance of orbiting spacecraft inadvertently colliding with other orbiting objects. The most common subject of spacecraft collision avoidance research and development is for human-made satellites in geocentric orbits.
Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are items buried along with a body. They are usually personal possessions, supplies to smooth the deceased's journey into an afterlife, or offerings to gods. Grave goods may be classed by researchers as a type of votive deposit. Most grave goods recovered by archaeologists consist of inorganic ...
GOES-2. 15 June 1977, 10:51. Delta 2914. CCAFS LC-17B. 60° W. Retired. 1993 [ 2 ] Reactivated as comsat in 1995, [ 2 ] finally deactivated in May 2001.
Universal newsreel about the launch of Courier 1B. Courier 1B, is the world's first active repeater communications satellite, Courier 1B was successfully launched on October 4, 1960 at 17:45:00 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first Courier satellite in Project Courier, Courier 1A, was lost 2.5 minutes after lift-off on August 18, 1960.