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| International Space Station |
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility being assembled in space. Its on-orbit assembly began in 1998. The space station is in a low Earth orbit and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye: it has an altitude of about 350 km ...
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| Skylab |
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Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit, and the second space station ever visited by a human crew. The 100 ton space station was in Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979, and it was visited by crews three times in 1973...
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| Mir |
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Mir (, which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia) was a Soviet (and later Russia) orbital station. Mir was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space...
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| Cosmos 954 |
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Cosmos 954 was a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite (RORSAT) with an onboard nuclear reactor. The satellite's reactor core failed to separate and boost into a nuclear-safe orbit, and instead remained onboard in an orbit that decayed until...
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| Salyut 1 |
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Salyut 1 (DOS-1) (; English translation: Salute 1) was the first space station of any kind, and the first Soviet space station. It was launched on April 19, 1971. Its first crew launched in Soyuz 10 but was unable to board it due to a failure in the...
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| Salyut 2 |
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Salyut 2 (OPS-1)(Russian: Салют-2; English translation: Salute 2) was launched April 4, 1973. It was not really a part of the same program as the other Salyut space station, instead being the highly classified prototype military space station Almaz....
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| Salyut 3 |
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Salyut 3 (OPS-2) (Russian: Салют-3; English translation: Salute 3) was launched on June 25, 1974. It was another Almaz military space station, this one launched successfully, included in the Salyut program to disguise its true purpose.
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| Salyut 4 |
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Salyut 4 (DOS 4) (; English translation: Salute 4) was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. It was essentially a copy of the DOS...
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| Salyut 5 |
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Salyut 5 (OPS-3) (Russian: Салют-5; English translation: Salute V/5) was launched on June 22, 1976 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Proton 8K82K rocket. It was the third and last Almaz military space station, included in the Salyut program to...
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| Salyut 6 |
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Salyut 6 (; lit. Salute 6) was a Soviet orbital station. Launched on September 29, 1977, the station was the first of the 'second-generation' type of space station, possessing several revolutionary advances over the earlier Soviet space stations,...
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| Salyut 7 |
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Space Mission |
Salyut 7 (Russian: Салют-7; English translation: Salute 7) was the final space station launched into Low Earth orbit as part of the Soviet Union's Salyut Program. Launched on April 19, 1982, on a Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the USSR,...
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| Hubble Space Telescope |
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Telescope |
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST; also known colloquially as "the Hubble" or just "Hubble") is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in April 1990. It is named for the American astronomer, Edwin Hubble. Although not the...
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| ASTRO |
ASTRO is one of two satellites that make up the Orbital Express demonstration program, the other satellite being NextSat. The purpose of the program is to demonstrate in orbit servicing of sattelites by other sattelites. ASTRO is the servicing...
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Satellite to be serviced by ASTRO as part of the Orbital Express program.
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| Eurobird 1 | TV Network |
Eurobird 1 is a Eutelsat operated satellite, used primarily for digital television. It is located at 28.5 degrees east in the Clarke Belt, just within the range of most satellite dishes pointed at SES Astra's Astra 2A, 2B and 2D at 28.2°. It was...
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| APPLE |
The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment (APPLE), was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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| Salyut |
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The Salyut program (; lit. Salute or Fireworks) was the first space station program undertaken by the Soviet Union, which consisted of a series of nine single-module space stations launched over a period of eleven years from 1971 to 1982. Intended...
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The Almaz ( - "Diamond") program was a series of military space station (or "Orbital Piloted Station" - OPS) launched by the Soviet Union under cover of the civilian Salyut DOS-17K (Orbital space station) program after 1971.
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| Cosmos 557 |
The Salyut space station that Almaz had substituted for, designated DOS 3, was launched on May 11, 1973, three days before the launch of Skylab. Due to errors in the flight control system while out of the range of ground control, the station fired...
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| Genesis-1 |
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Genesis I is an experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace and launched in 2006. It was the first module to be sent into orbit by the company, and is testing various systems, materials and techniques...
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| Genesis II |
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Genesis II is the second experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace, and was launched in 2007. As the second module sent into orbit by the company, this spacecraft builds on the data and experience...
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| Landsat 7 |
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Landsat 7, launched on April 15, 1999, is the latest satellite of the Landsat program. Landsat 7's primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite photos, providing up-to-date and cloud free images. Although the Landsat Program is managed...
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| Landsat 4 |
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Earth observing satellite |
Landsat 4 is the fourth satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on July 16, 1982, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite photos. Although the Landsat Program is managed by NASA, data from Landsat 4 was collected...
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| Landsat 6 |
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Landsat 6, equipped with upgraded versions of the instruments on its predecessor, was designed to continue the Landsat program. It was launched on October 5, 1993 using a Titan II launch vehicle, but failed to reach orbit. As a consequence, Landsat...
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| Landsat 3 |
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Earth observing satellite |
Landsat 3 is the third satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on March 5, 1978, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite photos. Unlike later Landsats, Landsat 3 was managed solely by NASA. Landsat 3 is no longer...
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