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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 United States Department of Defense (DoD) has maintained a database of satellite states since the launch of the first Sputnik in 1957, known as the Space Object Catalog, or simply the Space Catalog. These satellite states are regularly updated with observations from the Space Surveillance Network, a globally distributed network of ...
The new owner decided to sell the property after his youngest son died of cancer. In January 2012, it was put up for sale for $2,950,000. [5] [6] In 2013, the Jamesburg Earth Station was leased by Lone Signal, an active SETI program, to send messages from the Earth to Gliese 526, a red dwarf star on the Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems. [7]
Samples of three GPS satellites' orbits over a five-year period (2013 to 2018) USA-242 · USA-239 · USA-151 · Earth As of 22 January 2025, 83 Global Positioning System navigation satellites have been built: 31 are launched and operational, 3 are in reserve or testing, 43 are retired, 2 were lost during launch, and 1 prototype was never launched. 3 Block III satellites have completed ...
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.
The Canadian government said on Wednesday it is investing C$85 million ($64.70 million) in an Ottawa-based satellite company as part of an effort to provide better broadband internet access to ...
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
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 ...