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  • FedSat

    • FedSat (Australia's 'Federation Satellite') is an Australian scientific research satellite launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan by a NASDA H-IIA launch vehicle in December 2002 (NASDA is now merged with JAXA). The satellite was developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems, a cooperative ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer

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    • Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer The Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) is a NASA plasma physics satellite, and is the second spacecraft in the Small Explorer program. It was launched on August 21, 1996, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL rocket. The spacecraft was designed and built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Flight o ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • FASat-Alfa

    • FASat-Alfa was to become the first Chilean satellite, and was constructed under a Technology Transfer Program between the Chilean Air Force (FACH) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of the United Kingdom. The primary goal of the Program was to obtain for Chile the basic scientific and technological experience r ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

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    • Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic ExplorerThe Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) is a space-based telescope operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. FUSE was launched on a Delta II rocket on 24 June 1999, as a part of NASA's Origins program. FUSE detected light in the far ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectru ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • GSAT-7

    • GSAT-7 or INSAT-4F is a multi-band military communications satellite developed by ISRO. The Indian Navy is the user of the multi-band communication spacecraft, which has been operational since September 2013. According to defense experts, the satellite will enable the navy to extend its blue water capabilities and stop ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

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    • Gravity Recovery and Climate ExperimentThe Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), a joint mission of NASA and the German Aerospace Center, has been making detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field anomalies since its launch in March 2002. Gravity is determined by mass. By measuring gravity anomalies, GRACE shows how mass is distributed around ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Gravity Probe B

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    • Gravity Probe BGravity Probe B (GP-B) was a satellite-based mission which launched on 20 April 2004 on a Delta II rocket. The spaceflight phase lasted until 2005; its aim was to measure spacetime curvature near Earth, and thereby the stress–energy tensor (which is related to the distribution and the motion of matter in space) in ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Gorizont

    • Gorizont, (Russian: Горизонт, Horizon), GRAU index 11F662, is a series of 35 Russian, previously Soviet, geosynchronous communication satellites launched between 1978 and 2000. The programme was started in order to develop a satellite system to relay coverage of the 1980 Olympic Games from Mosco ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • GOES-16

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    • Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites - R SeriesGOES-R insignia mission GOES-16, previously known as GOES-R, is an American weather satellite, which, upon completion of testing, will form part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It is the first of the next gener ... Read »Wikipedia
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  • Geotail

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    • GeotailGeotail is a satellite observing the Earth's magnetosphere. It was developed by Japan's ISAS in association with the United States' NASA, and was launched by a Delta II rocket on July 24, 1992. From the Geotail website (listed below): "The Geotail satellite was launched on July 24, 1992, by a Delta II launch vehicle f ... Read »Wikipedia
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