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  • Arkyd-3 Reflight

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  • Planetary Resources, Inc.Planetary Resources, Inc., formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics, is an American company that was formed on 1 January 2009, and reorganized and renamed in 2012. Their stated goal is to "expand Earth's natural resource base" by developing and deploying the technologies for asteroid mining. Although the long-term goal of ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • CFESat

  • CFESat, the Cibola Flight Experiment Satellite, examines radio spectra for ionospheric and lightning studies, using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). As well as science observation, the mission aims to show use of reconfigurable FPGAs to work in the radiation environment of low Earth orbit. The satellite payload ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Chandra X-ray Observatory

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  • Chandra X-ray ObservatoryThe Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space observatory launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Chandra is sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution o ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Chinasat

  • Chinasat is the brand name of communications satellites operated by the China Direct Broadcast Satellite Company. The Chinasat name has been used for a number of different satellite families of different generations, beginning with the indigenously developed Dong Fang Hong 2 family. The series was previously operated b ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Chinasat-9

  • Chinasat 9, also known as Zhongxing 9 (中星九號) or ZX-9, is a Chinese communications satellite. It was launched from pad 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on 9 June 2008, at 12:15 GMT, by a Long March 3B carrier rocket. It is based on the Spacebus 4000C2 satellite bus, and was constructed in Fra ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • CHIPSat

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  • CHIPSatCHIPSat (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite) is a now-decommissioned, but still-orbiting, microsatellite. It was launched on January 12, 2003 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II with the larger ICESat, and had an intended mission duration of one year. CHIPSat was the first of NASA's Univ ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • CloudSat

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  • CloudSatCloudSat is a NASA Earth observation satellite, which was launched on a Delta II rocket on April 28, 2006. It uses radar to measure the altitude and properties of clouds, adding to information on the relationship between clouds and climate in order to help resolve questions about global warming. CloudSat flies in form ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Coriolis (satellite)

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  • CoriolisThe Coriolis satellite is a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Earth and space observation satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on 2003-01-06 at 14:19 GMT. WINDSAT is a joint Integrated Program Office/Department of Defense demonstration project, intended to measu ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • COROT

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  • CoRoTCoRoT (French: COnvection ROtation et Transits planétaires; English: COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space observatory mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners. The mission's two objectives are to search for ex ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Dong Fang Hong 2

  • Dong Fang Hong 2 (also romanised as Dongfanghong 2) was the primary television satellite used by China during the later part of the 20th century. It was developed at the Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and had a design life 4.5 years. The first operational satellite in this group was launched into a geosynch ... Read »Wikipedia
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