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The Satellite Catalog Number (SATCAT), also known as NORAD Catalog Number, NORAD ID, USSPACECOM object number, is a sequential nine-digit number assigned by the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), and previously the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), in the order of launch or discovery to all artificial objects in the orbits of Earth and those that left Earth's orbit. [1]
The headquarters are located in Ottawa, Ontario. [1] Ciel was founded to develop Canadian spectrum opportunities and meet the demand for domestic competitive satellite services . In 2006, Ciel requested Thales Alenia Space to manufacture the Ciel-2 satellite, which was launched on an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on ...
MDA Space (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates) was founded in 1969 by John S. MacDonald and Vern Dettwiler in the basement of MacDonald's Vancouver home. [2] The company became a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) from the United States on 17 November 1995.
WISEA — AllWISE Source Catalog; WISEP — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Preliminary Release Source Catalog; WNC / Winn — Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars; WNO — Washington Observations (double stars) (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.) Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue; Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars
exactEarth provides satellite AIS data services to commercial markets as well as government customers in India, Canada, United States, Australia and across Europe. [1] [2] Founded in 2009, exactEarth is based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The company was publicly traded until 2021 when Spire Global acquired the company.
COM DEV International was founded in 1974 and specialized in microwave technology for the aviation and aerospace industry.The company would go on to become a leader in space satellite componentry and hardware, specializing in telecommunication systems; [3] a global designer and builder of telecommunication components and systems for space satellites; as well as one of Canada's largest sources ...
Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite; S. Sapphire (satellite) SCISAT-1 ... Category: Satellites of Canada. 11 languages ...
The increase in the number of objects tracked meant that Satellite Catalog Numbers may no longer fit in the five-digit field available in traditional TLEs. A secondary cause for the increase in Satellite Catalog Numbers was the commercialization of space and break-up events and collisions that have created debris objects. [17]