Artificial satellites orbiting Earth

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• Dynamics Explorer

Dynamics Explorer was a NASA mission, launched on August 3, 1981 and terminated on February 28, 1991. It consisted of two unmanned satellites, DE-1 and DE-2, whose purpose was to investigate the interractions between plasmas in the magnetosphere and those in the ionosphere. The two satellites were launched together int ... Read »Wikipedia

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• Dong Fang Hong I

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Dong Fang Hong IDongfanghong I (simplified Chinese: 东方红一号; traditional Chinese: 東方紅一號; pinyin: Dōngfānghóng YÄ«hào; literally: "The East is Red 1"), also known as China 1, was the People's Republic of China's first space satellite, launched successfully on 24 April 1970 ( ... Read »Wikipedia

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• E-st@r

e-st@r (Educational Satellite @ Politecnico di Torino) is a miniaturized satellite built by the Politecnico di Torino. It is a 1-U CubeSat design weighing 1 kg. e-st@r was launched into Low Earth Orbit on the maiden flight of Arianespace's Vega rocket on the 13th Feb 2012. The launch was a multi-payload mission sha ... Read »Wikipedia

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• DLR-Tubsat

DLR-Tubsat (a.k.a. TUBSAT) was a German remote sensing microsatellite, developed in joint venture between Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and German Aerospace Center (DLR). TUB was responsible for the satellite bus and DLR was responsible for the payload. The satellite was launched into orbit on 26 May 1999, on th ... Read »Wikipedia

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• Dark Matter Particle Explorer

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer, or DAMPE, is a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) satellite which was launched on 17 December 2015 at 00:12 UTC. The satellite was launched on a Long March 2D rocket from Launch Pad 603 at the LC-43 complex, also known as the South Launch Site, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. I ... Read »Wikipedia

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• CRRES

The Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) was launched on July 25, 1990 into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) for a nominal three-year mission to investigate fields, plasmas, and energetic particles inside the Earth's magnetosphere. As part of the CRRES program, the SPACERAD (Space Radiation Eff ... Read »Wikipedia

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• Cosmic Background Explorer

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Cosmic Background ExplorerNASA COBE logo The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE /ˈkoʊbi/), also referred to as Explorer 66, was a satellite dedicated to cosmology. Its goals were to investigate the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) of the universe and provide measurements that would help shape our understanding of the cosmos. Th ... Read »Wikipedia

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• Disaster Monitoring Constellation

The Disaster Monitoring Constellation for International Imaging (DMCii) consists of a number of remote sensing satellites constructed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and operated for the Algerian, Nigerian, Turkish, British and Chinese governments by DMC International Imaging. The DMC provides emergency Earth ... Read »Wikipedia

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• E-st@r-II

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e-st@r-IIe-st@r-II (Educational Satellite @ Polytechnic University of Turin 2) is a miniaturized satellite designed and built by Polytechnic University of Turin, as part of the "Fly Your Satellite" program of the European Space Agency. It is a CubeSat satellite, placed in orbit by Arianespace with Soyuz Booster, VS14 flight, o ... Read »Wikipedia

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• EROS B

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EROS BThe Earth Remote Observation System-B (EROS-B) is the second satellite launched in a series of the EROS family of Israeli commercial Earth observation satellites, designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries. The EROS B was launched on April 25, 2006 from Svobodny Launch Complex in eastern Siberia. The ... Read »Wikipedia

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