09478Maritime communications. Although designed 09478for only five years, it is continuing to 09478support communications with the South Pole 09478area through 2006. 12309Communications Satellite Corp. first owner. 12309Sold to Tongasat, the friendly Islands Comm. 12309Company, in April 2002. NASA still reports 12309this as a USA satellite. It will provide TV, 12309telephone and data services to major portions 12309of Asia and Europe. 14780Sun synchronous-gives multi spectral images. 14780Planned life was 3 years. On 29 Apr 97, it 14780was still performing its primary remote 14780sensing mission. Over 70,000 orbits to date. 14780Although, by mid-2004, the capabilities are 14780degraded the system has enough fuel to keep 14780operating through 2008. 18350Domestic communication from 164 deg East. 19548Tracking & Data Relay Satellite at 189 deg E. 19883Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. Placed at 19883319 deg East longitude. 19976Military mission. 20202Geostationary location unknown. 20220Mission undetermined, but something military. 20315New generation of Intelsat birds. Placed at 20315335.5 deg East longitude. 20355Possibly a combined mission. 20410Placed at 178 deg East by 13 Jan 90 for check 20410on system. Then moved to 183 deg East. The US 20410Navy completed use in 1996. Was leased to the 20410Australian Navy for ship to shore comms in 20410early 1998. Will be in use through 2003. 20436Commercial remote sensing. 10 m resolution 20436same as SPOT 1. Has Doppler Orbitography and 20436Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite 20436[DORIS] system in preparation for joint 1992 20436Franco-US Topex mission. 20523Unfired Perigee Kick Motor remained attached. 20523Stranded in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Rescued by 20523STS 49 in May 1992. Sent to 325.5 deg East. 20580Intended to be regularly serviced by shuttle 20580astronauts. Mirrors not checked on ground & 20580caused poorer images than planned. Pictures 20580better than from Earth but only after much 20580effort. Repaired in space Dec 93. Second time 20580was in Feb 97. Pictures keep getting better. 20580Third repair mission the end of Dec 99. The 20580fourth service mission took place between 1 20580Mar and 11 Mar 02. Five spacewalks needed for 20580replacement of parts and repairs. Should be 20580good for at least three years. 20607Multiple Access Communications SATellite. 1st 20607operational use during Iraq 'Desert Shield' 20607operation. 20608operational use during Iraq 'police action'. 20641Probably a US Navy satellite. 20667Replacement for INTELSAT 6-F01. 20682Probably operates with other satellites. 20691Probably operates with other USA satellites. 207882nd Chinese polar orbiting flight. 20830Placed at position 2 of plane D. Cs clock. 20842Formerly the International Solar Polar 20842Mission. To investigate the Heliosphere. To 20842circle sun passing over the poles. Joint US 20842and ESA venture. 20872capacity of previous SBS sat. 298 degrees E. 20918First dedicated satellite for International 20918Maritime Satellite Organization. Initially 20918checked out at 30 degrees East. 20963Reported to be a military satellite. 21047Used for NATO communications. Interoperable 21047with United States military communication 21047satellites. 21147Military mission. 21149network. Placed at 344.5 degrees East. 21227American Satellite Company unit for US comms. 21227Design life of 10 years [contractor GE Astro 21227Space]. Initially placed at 101 degrees East. 21262Multi Purpose Experiment Canister, a US DoD 21262classified payload. 21263satellite. Formerly called NOAA-D. 21552First GPS launch in 8 months. 11th of series. 21552Placed in position 1, plane D. Cesium clock. 21639Tracking and Data Relay Satellite for NASA. 21639Formerly called TDRS E. It was ejected from 21639STS 43 about 2100 GMT on 2 Aug 91. Reached 21639geostationary orbit [182 E] about 1000 3 Aug. 21639Planned 2-3 month White Sands checkout. 21653satellite replacement. Can handle 120,000 two 21653way telephone circuits simultaneously. Will 21653be placed at 345.5 degrees East. 21765International Telecommunication Organization 21765satellite replacement. Initial geostationary 21765location is 332.5 degrees East. 21798Defense Meteorological Support Program. 21808Military mission. 21833Domestic communications satellite that was 21833stranded in geosynchronous transfer orbit 21833due to under performance of 3rd stage. 21835ejected from Intercosmos 25 on 28 Dec 91. 21835Equipped with a Pulsar engine for multiple 21835orbit corrections. 21873Defense satellite. 21890Third Block II A Navstar satellite. Orbital 21890plane position A-2. Rubidium clock. 21922Inserted in 103 degree East location. 21940Third of series. Projected for 31 East but it 21940might replace Arabsat 1A at 19 East. 21940Planned to be located over the Pacific Ocean. 21949Military (DoD) mission uncertain. 22009System for the US military. 22012EXplorer. To study Solar energetic particles, 22012anomalous cosmic rays, galactic cosmic rays 22012and magnetospheric electrons. 22041Placed at 346 degrees East. 22049NASA and Japanese cooperative mission. 22077May have a store and forward imager plus 22077some communications capability. For Korean 22077Advanced Institute of Technology. 22078communications with mobile van receivers. 22087Domestic use by Optus communications of 22087Australia. Placed at 156 degrees East. 22096Replacement for GE Americom SATCOM 4 which 22096was launched 16 Jan 82 and is at 278 East. 22096SATCOM 4 will then move to 325 East. 22108Position 3, plane A of the GPS network. 22117GE Americom satellite put at 218 deg. East. 22161Swedish auroral & magnetospheric experiments. 22195LAser GEOdynamics Satellite used to determine 22195precise movements of the Earth's crust. 22195Ejected from shuttle at 1355 UT 23 Oct 92. 22195Covered with reflectors and illuminated from 22195ground to determine Earth's crust movement. 22231Position 1, plane F of the GPS network. 22251Classified US payload. Speculation & Russians 22251report it as a reconnaissance mission in a 22251Sun synchronous orbit. 22275Placed in position 4, plane D initially. Then 22275moved to position 1, plane F. With the launch 22275of USA 154 in Nov 2000, it was moved again to 22275position 5, plane F as a backup for that 22275position in December 2000. 22314Tracking and Data Relay Satellite for NASA. 22314Placed at 298 degrees East. Replaces TDRS 3 22314that gets moved to 189 degrees East replacing 22314TDRS 1 that is banished to 85 degrees East. 22489Communications satellite to demo comm relays. 22489Also called Capabilities Demonstration Sat. 22490environment. Will relay meteorological data 22490from ground stations in the Amazon basin. 22518Launched from STS 53. US Space Command did 22518not catalog it till mid-February 1993. This 22518increased speculation that it is a new USA 22518super secret electronic spy satellite. 22557Civilian communications satellite that had 22557drifted for a while. Placed at 12 degrees E. 22561SL-19 here tentatively as Buran may be called 22561SL-18 by US Space Command. Will correct as 22561soon as data is available if there is change. 22638Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors. 22638NASA B-52 took off from Edwards AFB and flew 22638about 130 km off West Coast. Released Pegasus 22638at 13.3 km altitude. Payload lost initially. 22638Minimum control/activity available due to 22638problem with solar panel damage/alignment. 22638Can listen to thousands of radio frequencies 22638with payload Blackbeard. 22653Initially placed at 12.1 degrees East. Built 22653by Hughes and has 18 Ku band transponders. 22653Final location to be 19.2 degrees East. 22654Amateur Satellite pour l'ENseignement de 22654l'Espace. Mean access time 12 hours per day. 22698Radar Calibration satellite. To operate for 22698a year. Carries experimental device to test a 22698more efficient way of charging satellite 22698batteries from solar panels. 22700Navstar-10 [8 Sep 84]. GPS System complete. 22719Military satellite. 22779Fills GPS constellation plane B position 4. 22782missions. Cosmos 1066 was probably a Meteor 2 22782and thus makes this the 22nd Meteor 2. 22783commercial data relay service - relaying data 22783from environmental platforms. Worked>1 year. 22787satellite. Final position 186 degrees East. 22824Geodetic laser ranging satellite. A follow-on 22824to Starlette launched in Feb 1975. A passive 22824and autonomous unit. 22825mission is to take CCD pictures, measure 22825radiation and receive/forward messages. 22827A UK-US 'humanitarian' satellite to provide 22827information to medical schools and health 22827documentation centers in Africa. 22829monitoring mobile industrial equipment. 22836moved to 85 degrees East and Raduga 26 was 22836moved out of that location. 22871First of a new generation of Comm satellites. 22871Has 26 C-band and 10 Ku-band transponders. It 22871will first be placed at 121 degrees East and 22871then moved to 174 degrees East. 22877Filled plane D position 4, GPS constellation. 22915Military system. 22930Placed at 258 degrees East. Will provide 22930direct to home TV to US users. 22931phone and TV service. 229697th meteor 3 [first was Cosmos 1612]. Carried 22969French SCARAB Earth radiation balance 22969instrument and German PRARE Precise Range and 22969Range Rate Experiment for precise orbit data. 22970high precision star trackers. New attitude 22970control concept being tested. 22988Maiden flight of Titan 4/Centaur launcher. 23016Replacement for Galaxy-1R(1) satellite. To be 23016located at 227 degrees East. 23027Replaced NAVSTAR-09 & was 24th 2nd generation 23027GPS satellite. Placed plane C, position 1. 23030Space Test Experiment Platform. Carried 10 23030experiments on this first Taurus launch test. 23030The Technology for Autonomous Operational 23030Survivability experiment was brought back on 23030line in Sep 94 after the 19 Jul 94 failure. 23031to validate advanced technologies. 23097Military satellite. 23105Space Test Experiment Platform with US Signal 23105IDentification EXperiment [SIDEX] and was to 23105work with TEX and REX [USA 57] satellites. 23105Orbit was planned for 833 km. Slightly off. 23124Weight quoted is at BOL [beginning of life] 23124on orbit with 700 kg propellant. Has 10 Ku & 2312426 C band transponders. At 359 degrees East. 23125Defence Research Agency [DRA] Farnborough. 23125Experiment to study surface erosion effect on 23125spacecraft materials, cosmic ray detector and 23125gamma ray burst experiment. 23126experiments. Space Technology Research 23126Vehicle for the Defence Research Agency, UK. 23175Pan American Satellite. Primarily TV of US or 23175Mexican origin plus business data, video and 23175voice traffic. Initially placed at 195 East 23175for check out, then 191 East. Life: 15 years. 23176at 121 East, then 110 East. Life: 7 years. 23185Original slot is 131 degrees East. Owned by 23185Asia Pacific Telecom Sat. Comp. 4th Chinese 23185commercial launch to GEO. Life: 12 years. 23189Minor Military mission. 23191Photovoltaic and Electronics eXperiments. To 23191determine long term effect of harsh radiation 23191and plasma environments. Life: 1-3 years. 23191Last Pegasus launch from a B-52. 2319246 cm dish to receive signal. At 258-9 East. 23192Co-located with DIRECTV-1. Rescheduled from 23192Arianespace launch Feb 1994. Life: 12 years. 231992nd generation satellite to provide 14,000 23199simultaneous telephone or 28 TV channels. For 23199290 degrees East longitude. Life: 12 years. 23223Military mission. 23227at 156 East. Life: 13-14 years. 23230degrees East. Launch abort on 18 Aug 1994 due 23230to solid rocket boosters failure to ignite. 23230Launch successful but apogee motor failed and 23230satellite left in bad orbit. Some experiments 23230may be run. Solar panels may fail in 1 year. 23305Initially at 121 East. Life: 15-18 years. 23313Placed at 247 degrees East. Life = 14 years. 2331485 degrees East, then 78.5 E. Life = 15 yrs. 233171602, 1766 and 1869. Life expected = 5 years. 23323First indigenously designed & launched remote 23323sensing satellite. 2nd try for PSLV launcher. 23323Life expectancy is only 3 years. 23331Planned to be placed at 19.2 degrees East. 23331Lifetime is expected to be 13 years. 23411Other GEO-IK in this inclination were Cosmos 234111510, 1660, 1732, 1823, 1950, 2037, 2088 and 234112226. In 82.6 degree inclination were Cosmos 234111312, 1410, 1589 and 1803. 23413Operational life is planned at 11 years. 234391st SL-19 launch. An SS-19 ICBM with a 3rd 23439stage for space. Launched from silo? Amateur 23439radio satellite. 23455National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Admin. 23455Replacement for NOAA 11. 23463system. Previous Cosmos & Nadezhda names. 23463Replaced Cosmos 2123. 23464circuit caused loss of 3 main experiments but 23464the scientists expect to get full amount of 23464data from the satellite. 23528Located at 310 degrees E. Life 15-18 years. 23533Military weather satellite. 4 year life. 23536simultaneous telephone or 28 TV channels. For 23536295 degrees East. Lifetime to be 12 years. 2353713 degrees East with life span of 11 years. 23545provide position determination [375 m] and 23545messaging services using pocket portable 23545terminals. Problems with system. 23546with this satellite also. Recovered May 95. 23547global lightning to predict major atmospheric 23547storm systems & climate changes. 23553American Mobile Satellite Corp. Put at 259 23553degrees East and has life of 12 years [est]. 23560European Remote Sensing satellite. Prime 3 23560sensors are all weather. Monitor ocean wave 23560height/lengths, wind speed/direction, ice 23560parameters, sea surface & cloud top temps, 23560cloud cover and atmospheric water vapor. 23571operate at 307 East. Life of 15 years. 23581Geostationary Operational Environmental 23581Satellite. A NOAA weather satellite. Uses 23581IR imaging and IR thermal sounding. Was to be 23581leased to Japan as a replacement for the very 23581weak Himawari 5 [GMS 5] satellite. Japan will 23581pay for moving the satellite, and leasing it 23581when it becomes operational at 105 degrees E. 23589US Navy UHF Follow-On Fleet CommSat. 23598Direct to your home TV broadcasts. Requires a 2359846 cm dish to receive signal. 12 year life. 23598Located at 259 degrees East. When it lost its 23598primary spacecraft control processor in May 235982002 the controllers started to shift its 23598channels to the other DirecTV satellites. By 23598September it was ready to move the satellite 23598308 km above its geostationary location. In 23598October 2002 it was drifting in orbit. 23606French high frequency electronic spy mission. 23606Collided with a piece of the Spot-1 rocket 23606body in July 1996. Tumbling corrected. Damage 23606to system is being evaluated. 23607for microgravity & communications research. 23613Tactical Data Relay Satellite. Located at 210 23613degrees East. 23628Military system. 23636To be positioned at 69 degrees East. Lifetime 23636is planned for 15 years. 23649For 124 or 128 degrees East. Life: 12 years. 23651expectancy is 10 years. 23657For ocean and atmospheric measurements. Uses 23657SLAR and microwave radiometer. Could not be 23657separated from FASAT-ALPHA. FASAT-ALPHA is a 23657Chilean Air Force satellite with imagery and 23657meteorological capabilities. Polar orbit. 23657Cannot perform its comm & Earth observation 23657mission while attached to SICH-1. 236801st of advanced Luch satellites. Cosmos 1700, 236801897 & 2054, plus Luch-1 were original type. 23680Positioned initially at 77 degrees East. 23686East. Direct TV to Europe. 15 year life. 23696US Navy UHF Follow-On for Fleet Comms. 23710Remote free flying sensor satellite that will 23710monitor land, sea and ice for five years over 23710the poles. American and Canadian mission. 23711SATellite. Secondary payload to simulate a 23711deep space vehicle by radiating S, X, Ku and 23711Ka Bands. 23723Planned life 13 years, propellant 15 years. 23726measurements plus plasma field and energetic 23726particle observations of Sun. Orbit 1,496,000 23726km from Earth at L-1 Lagrangian point. Due to 23726low fuel usage, planned 2 year mission was to 23726extend to 2003. During maintenance, contact 23726lost at 2316 GMT, 24 Jun 98. Contact regained 23726and operational at 1629 GMT, 16 Sep 98. 23728on 31 Dec 95 reported to be 1,000 X 250 km. 23730civilian portion has 10 C and 11 Ku band 23730transponders. Syracuse system for military. 23730For use during the 1996 Bosnian 'excursion'. 23741Replacement for lost Galaxy 3. Life expected 23741to be 15 years. At 265 degrees East. 23751Replacement for IRS-1C. Provides agricultural 23751data relating to soil moisture & effects of 23751pest infestations. Life of 3 years. 23754Operational lifetime about 12 years. 23757nature of compact X-ray sources by studying 23757fluctuations in X-ray brightness over time 23757scales ranging from micro seconds to years. 23757Planned life is 2 years. 23764Replacement for PAS-3. Located at 317 degrees 23764East. Life expectancy 14 years. 2376591.5 degrees East. Life planned is 12 years. 23768East. 10 year life, 2 years on-orbit storage. 23779late 2000. 23787Commercial store-forward system similar to 23787Cosmos system with six satellites per launch. 23787Half of this launch were for military use. 23787First launch. 23790Cosmos 2299-2304. 23814Radiation Experiment. Pegasus XL's first 23814successful launch. 23816life is 15 years. 23827To prepare for IRS-2 series remote sensors. 23827To remain operational for 3 years. 23833Placed in Plane C/Position 2. Expected life 23833is 7.5 years. 23833USAF classified payload. Sigint? 23839be located at 64 deg. East. Life: 13 years. 23842is 19.2 degrees East. Life: 15 years. 23855Military mission. 23862Six payloads cataloged from this launch by 23862Space Command. 23865of 10 years. To be put at 356 degrees East. 23880Called Prezidentskiy as it is to be used to 23880relay 16 June 1996 Presidential election to 23880Western Siberia and the Urals. 23893and Survivability. US Naval Research Lab. and 23893National Reconnaissance Office experiment. 23915expectancy is 14-15 years. 23936Possibly the Tether Physics and 23936Survivability [TiPS] payload. See USA 119. 23940for the study of Stratospheric ozone. Design 23940life is 2 years, hoped for is 3. 23943to be 12 years. Placed at 77 degrees East. 23945upper stage it can not be geosynchronous. 23945Based on Russian and French observations it 23945is believed to be an SDS Commsat. 2394910 year plus life. Located 31-32 deg East. 23949Support for the Ministry of Posts and Comms. 23953series. Expected life is 7.5 years. 24209Includes the French military Syracuse system. 24209Planned life is over 10 years. Located over 242093 deg East. 24278Amateur radio communications. 24285Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer [FASE] to 24285investigate the auroral region. Abbreviation 24285was changed to confuse us all. 24292International scientific studies. To work in 24292conjunction with Magion 4. Failed soon after 24292launch. Czech controllers awakened it on 15 24292May 1998 after several bursts of signals. 24293called 'Aurora'. International involvement. 24304Cosmos 2327. 24305velocity of meteors using radio doppler echo. 24307located at 28 degrees East. Life = 13 years. 24313Series 7000 unit - 16 Ku band transponders. 24313Planned operational life 10 plus years. 24315RCA SATCOM-K1. Planned life 15 years. Put at 24315257 degrees East. 24320this series. 24648Mars Global Surveyor. 1st Mars orbiter in 24648Mars Surveyor Program. Reached Mars orbit on 2464811 Sep 1997. Orbit to be adjusted to 350-410 24648km & 93 degree inclination. Bad solar panel 24648slowed aerobraking. Primary mapping mission 24648started in March 1999. 24653launched in January 1996. 24665Planned for 13 degrees East. 15 year life. 246743rd generation International Mobile Satellite 24674Organization. Planned for 157-158 degrees 24674East with a 13 year life expectancy. 24677series be launched in 1996. That's the lowest 24677number since starting that naming convention. 24677Replacement for Cosmos 2239. 24680it was a reconnaissance satellite but would 24680not say if it was a Lacrosse or KH-11. 24713To replace RCA SATCOM-K2. Has 24 C- and 24 24713Ku-band transponders. With a life of 15 years 24713it is to service North America and Hawaii. 24714ordered by German DASA group for Argentine 24714company, Nahuelsat. Design life 12+ years and 24714is equipped with 18 Ku-band transponders. 24720Very Long Baseline Interferometry [VLBI] 24720Space Observatory Program [VSOP]. Will link 24720with ground electro optical stations around 24720the world. Will triple the resolving power of 24720just ground stations and have 1,000 times the 24720resolution of Hubble. Like seeing a grain of 24720rice 9,200 km away. Called Highly Advanced 24720Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy. 24725Cosmos system with six satellites per launch. 24725Second launch. Same plane as Cosmos 2252-57. 24726In same plane as Cosmos 2252-57. 24727In same plane as Cosmos 2252-57. 24728Cosmos 2252-57. 24729In same plane as Cosmos 2252-57. 24730In same plane as Cosmos 2252-57. 24742transponders. 24748Location to be 194 East on 12 year+ mission. 24761Missile warning replacement for Cosmos 2217. 24769Broadcast Satellite Corp. To provide services 24769to the Japanese NHK network. 247921st 5 of 66, plus 10 on orbit spares, in LEO 24792for telecommunications to mobiles. Originally 2479277 satellites [hence name] plus spares. Two 24792satellites were reported tumbling. Stabilized 24792orbits by June. IRIDIUM-01 to 03 being used 24792as ground test vehicles - at least initially. 24792Plane 4. 24795on 11 Jan 98. Active in November 2002. 24800Missile Warning replacement for Cosmos 2176. 24808First satellite built for Norwegians. THOR-1 24808was purchased - previously Marcopolo-1. It is 24808planned for 359.2 deg. East. Wiring problem 24808discovered on orbit. It was corrected by 24808making changes to the ground receivers. 24812C- and 28 Ku-band transceivers. 24819Initial location is 305-306 degrees East. 24834Feng Yun 2A satellite destroyed in the Apr 94 24834explosion has been totally rebuilt. Launch 24834was planned for late in 1995. 24837Plane 5. See Iridium-14. 24839Plane 5. See Iridium-14. 24846Carries 38 C and 6 Ku band transponders. Will 24846be initially placed at 174 degrees East. 24869Plane 6. 24872Plane 6. Momentum wheel failure. 24876Upgraded replacement for GPS satellites. Life 24876of 10 years planned. Can be launched into any 24876of the required orbits on any day. 24883data for NASA. Part of Earth probe programs. 24883SEAWiFS, a telescope, stands for Sea-viewing 24883Wide Field Sensor. Formerly called SEASTAR. 24883Switched to safe mode on 14 Oct 97 due to the 24883upload of bad ephemeris data. System was back 24883on line in a week. 1-2 km resolution. 24901Comms between Philippine islands. Located at 24901165 degrees East. 24912Advanced Composition Explorer. Free flying 24912spacecraft to provide up to an hour's warning 24912when geomagnetic storms are headed to Earth. 24912Instruments 10-1,000 better than previous. 24912Will be located at the Earth-Sun libration 24912point [L1], approximately 1.4 million km from 24912Earth. 24920To identify bright flashes, less lightning. 24931Part of Eutelsat system. A high power TV 24931satellite with Ku-band transceivers for use 24931in European area. Location 13 degrees East. 24932of the Meteosat Transition Program [MTP] 24932satellites. 2 more in the pipeline. Has 2.5 24932meter resolution. 24945communications to other satellites. Fixed. 24948Plane 3. 24954Built by Final Analysis, Inc. [FAI]. 24957Ocean/Asia-Pacific region. 24965Plane 4. 25004To be located at 298.5 East. 25008Named for Jean Dominique Cassini, French 25008astronomer [1625-1712]. Saturn Insertion Burn 25008will take place in 5,500 km gap between outer 25008and bright rings. Huygens probe will be put 25008on Moon Titan. Probe will transmit for less 25008than 5 hours. Cassini will make 60 orbits of 25008Saturn between 2004 arrival and 2008. Study 25008of Saturn, its rings and moons. See Huygens. 25008Cassini entered gravity of Saturn in Feb 2004 25008and will rendezvous with the moon Phoebe on 2500811 June 2004. Orbit insertion burn is 1 July. 2501015 year life at 76.5 degrees East. 25017Launched from the US West Coast. Only the 3rd 25017known time that a satellite has been put into 25017a less than 60 degree inclination from here. 25025Young Engineers Satellite with experiments in 25025radiation and the Solar angle & acceleration. 25049At 5 degrees East. Greater than 12 year life. 250507 year life with 10 years of propellant. 25063Tropospherical Rainfall Measuring Mission or 25063Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Measures 25063rainfall conditions in tropics/sub-tropics. 25064target satellite, so no attempted docking. A 25064joint German-Japanese effort. Target was to 25064drift 15 km away. Robot arm would capture the 25064target. On 5 Jun 98 target separated by 2 cm 25064and was captured. Full test effort began in 25064July with separations of up to 9 km in at 25064least six maneuvers. 25068German cooperative, part of International 25068Solar Terrestrial Physics [ISTP] program to 25068study the ring current and near Earth plasma 25068sheet in the equatorial region. 25071at 23-24 degrees East. 15 Year life. 25104Plane 2/Slot 5. 25106Plane 2/Slot 7. 25108Plane 2/Slot 9. 25112Plane A. 25117system consists of 24 satellites. This starts 25117Plane A. Name sometimes uses just FM-number. 25134British Ministry of Defence communications. 25148Reported to be in a highly elliptical orbit. 25157ocean topography and circulation data. 25163Mobile voice network of 48 satellites with 25163all launched by the end of 1998. 8 Planes. 25163AKA GLOBALSTAR-U2. 2nd satellite dispensed to 25163Plane 1 from the upper dispenser. 25165Mobile voice network of 48 satellites. Called 25165L2 as 2nd dispensed from lower dispenser. 25165Plane 1. 25169Plane 5. 25175Test Satellite. 2nd, 2nd Stage burn was for 2517544 of planned 192 seconds and satellite is in 25175a useless orbit. Japanese have deployed solar 25175panels and are trying to salvage some of the 25175satellite's experiments. 25237Part of Eutelsat system. 25258Military mission. 25263Plane 4/Slot 11. 25280Region And Coronal Explorer. To explore the 25280three dimensional magnetic structures which 25280emerge through the visible surface of Sun. 25307Plane 2. 25312to the Japanese NHK network. 25315at Asian area [India & Pakistan]. ?Comms? 25327Replacement missile warning satellite. Took 25327up an empty slot that had previously been 25327filled by Cosmos 2222 and Cosmos 2076. 25331deployed in the first two weeks of life. 25338weather satellite. Replacement for NOAA 12. 25338Very High Frequency antenna failed to fully 25338deploy. Will not affect main NOAA operations. 25338Imaging system failed on 9 July 2000. Other 25338instruments are still operating. 25342Plane 1. 25345Plane 1. 25358Second Norwegian communications satellite 25358built for Norway. 25363a malfunction in that the satellites were 25363left in an elliptical orbit instead of the 25363usual 1,400 km circular orbit. 25379Replacement for Molniya 3-39 or 3-44. 25394Fourth of this new series. Others were Cosmos 253941689 and 1939 plus the one first reported as 25394RESURS O-1. 25395separate from CIS satellite SICH-1 in a CIS 25395launch on 31 August 1995. 25397satellite with Ku band downlink of images. 25399as a store-dump type system. Called SAtellite 25399For Information Retrieval. 25404People's Bank of China. 24 C- and 14 Ku-band 25404transponders. Life expectancy 15 years. 25404Intelsat has leased some C-band channels in 25404the 3400-4200 Mhz band range for their Asia 25404Pacific Region (APR) series. 25406Yuzhnoe Co. of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. 25424the target was again set loose. The next try 25424were re-docking failures. Attempts continued 25424through 27 August when a successful docking 25424was accomplished at 1344 GMT. 25431Used first as ground test vehicle. Placed in 25431Plane 2 as a replacement vehicle. 25460Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan. To be placed at 2546088 degrees East in support of Middle East and 25460Far East customers. 25462at 28.2 degrees East. 25471Plane 6 space/replacement satellite. 25473orbited over the Indian Ocean 25485possible Missile Warning satellite. USSC and 25485NASA agreed on a Molniya 1 mission. 25489DoD including the Advanced Tether EXperiment. 25489Original names were USA 140 and STEX. Now has 25489no USA number. 25509University of Huntsville satellite to be 25509released upward via a 40 km tether. Tether to 25509be cut at booster end first, then satellite 25509end. SEDSAT-1 to achieve 525 x 330 km orbit. 25509Tether to reenter atmosphere in about a day. 25515WorldSpace satellite at 21 degrees East. Has 25515been having problems with payload interface 25515unit and cannot upload corrective software. 25520Petite Amateur Navy Satellite. A proof of 25520concept experiment for a quick reaction, low 25520cost, direct sequence spread spectrum packet 25520comms. Plus other small experiments. Was 25520ejected from the shuttle [STS 095] at 1845 25520GMT on 30 Oct 98. 25522Builder is Space Systems/Loral. To be placed 25522over the Pacific Ocean. 25528Plane 5 spare/replacement satellite. 25530Plane 5 replacement. 25544Functional Energy Block [FGB] or Space Tug 25544for the International Space Station. Also 25544called by Russians Zarya [Sunshine]. This 25544first piece of the ISS was listed by NASA as 25544a USA satellite. This piece will move the 25544entire space station to keep it on orbit. On 255444 Feb 2002 the station lost attitude control 25544for several hours. 25546transponders. For domestic use by Media Most 25546and will transmit 50 TV channels to western 25546Russia. Placed at 36 degrees East. 2555810 times more powerful than Morelos 02 that 25558it will replace. Operated by Satellites 25558Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. which replaces the 25558Mexican Telecoms Ministry. 25567Civil Navigation Satellite. Life: 4 years. 25575First US International Space Station portion. 25575Took 3, 2 man, space walks to make external 25575connections. Shuttle departed ISS Unity at 255752025 GMT on 13 December 1998. USSC assigned 25575International & Catalog numbers but will not 25575list it as a separate element set. Check ISS 25575Zarya [25544] for the TLE. 25615Advanced Tether EXperiment attached to STEX. 25615Naval Research Lab [NRL] tried to deploy the 256156,050 meter tether on 16 Jan 99. Reported to 25615have been 'inadvertently' jettisoned after 25615only 21 meters of tether were deployed. Was 25615First referred to as ATEX and USA 142. It is 25615the satellite that deployed on the tether. 25616to be placed in LEO. Taiwan will help build. 25616First in the Republic of China's civilian 25616space program. It hosts space physics, comm 25616and oceanography experiments. 25621Plane 8 of mobile voice network of 48 birds. 25621Group [FM23, FM40, FM36 & FM38] is the first 25621to use Ikar upper stage built by Starsem of 25621Suresnes, France. 25626C- and 28 Ku-band transponders. 25634Advanced Research & Global Observation Sat. 25634Carries an electric propulsion experiment, 25634ionospheric instruments, experiment for space 25634dust, and the hard X-ray astronomy detectors 25634previously flown on the Spartan 1 mission on 2563417 Jun 85 from the shuttle Discovery. 25635accurate global mapping of the Earth vector 25635magnetic field. 25639British Ministry of Defence satellite built 25639by Matra Marconi Space UK. To be deployed at 256396 degrees East. 25642regular Proton-K booster. 25649Plane 3. 25657useless orbit, but saved after trips around 25657Moon. Has 28 C- & 16 Ku-Band transponders. 25657To be located at 105.5 degrees East and take 25657over from the 9 year old AsiaSat-1. 25666Domestic communications with weather sensor. 25666Planned for 83 degrees East with 17 C-Band 25666transponders & a 1 km resolution CCD camera. 25666Intelsat has leased some C-band transponders 25666for their Asia Pacific Region series. They 25666are using the frequencies in the 3625-4200 25666Mhz range. 25669orbit. Correction capability uncertain. 25693University of Surrey. Carries mobile radio 25693experiment [MERLION], GPS receiver & imagery 25693cameras. First launch of SS-18 ICBM [Dnepr] 25693modified for space launches. Surrey Nanosat 25693applications Program [SNAP-1] not launched. 25724Centaur motor failed to place satellite in 25724proper orbit. 25727is in useless orbit & probably unrecoverable. 25727Planned to serve the Asia-Pacific area with 2572733 Ku-band and 10 C-band transponders. 25736Multiple Beam Beyond Line-of-sight Comms. 25736US Army's Communications-Electronic Command 25736[CECOM] experimental system. 25740DBS satellite for Canada. 160 TV channels. 25756altimeter, scanning microwave radiometer and 25756thermal IR capability. 25758and the Technical University of Berlin built 25758a small satellite to transmit live video and 25758still pictures as it tracks stars, orbital 25758debris and ground targets. 25770Plane 4. 25785Ka-band transponders. 25789winds [400,000 measurements per day]. Ball 25789Aerospace of Colorado built and launched this 25789satellite in less than a year. 25791the reaction wheels failed in 2001. It was 25791repaired and then a third wheel failed in 25791Dec 2004. One more change and it came back on 25791line in Nov 2005. 25852Plane 5. 25860Oceanographic studies. Carries an attached 25860science package called IRIS-1. 25867Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility-Imager. 25867Renamed Chandra Observatory for Subrahmanyan 25867Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist 25867who won the Nobel Prize in 1983. The CXO was 25867sent on its way to a highly elliptical orbit 25867at 1147 GMT on 23 Jul 99. 25880will operate to 2013. 32 C-band transponders. 25886Plane 7. 25892Part of military navigation satellite system. 25892Replaces Cosmos 2218. 25894be stationed at 116 degrees East. 25897Replacement for Express satellites. Venture 25897by RKKE and RAO Gasprom, the Russian natural 25897gas monopoly. 12 C-band transponders. 25907Plane 7. Plane 8 initially. 25913orbit. Ku-band system to support Dish TV. 25919Ikonos by some. One meter resolution B&W and 25919four meter resolution color cameras. 25922C- and 24 Ku-band transponders. To Provide 25922communications for North America. 25924located at 75 degrees East. Use is for East 25924European - Central Asia communications. 25933Replacement GPS satellite. 25937on the equator. Location is 259 degrees East. 25937Carries 16 high power Ku-band transponders 25937for service to all 50 states in the USA. 25940Brazil's payload on Chinese platform. Repeats 25940track every 20 days. 20 meter resolution. 25941plasma bubbles, geomagnetism, particle 25941detection, airglow photometry and GPS 25941navigation. 25961Plane 5 initially. 25967US Navy UHF Fleet communications satellite. 25978Low frequency electronic spy mission. 25989the X-ray Multi-mirror Mission. The XMM will 25989complement NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. 25994clouds, aerosols, radioactive balance, and 25994characterization of terrestrial surface in 25994the morning [AM]. Has 5 instruments with 8 25994sensors. Life expectancy is 5 years. 26032Science and remote sensing for KARI. 26033One ACRIM is already aboard the UARS 26033Satellite. 26042Oko-class early warning satellite. 26058derived from the DFH-3 design. 26061deployed the four other satellites on this 26061mission. Also, the NASA Plasma Experiment 26061Satellite Test [PEST] and Attitude Controlled 26061Platform [ACP] are attached. 26063Stanford University satellite called Orbiting 26063Picosat Automated Launcher. At least 2 of the 260634 picosats are attached by 30 meter tethers. 26064Academy satellite was called Falcon Gold and 26064also FALCONSAT. This is called number 1. 26065high resolution imaging system. 26069First CIS ELINT mission in two years. 26071be placed at 330 degrees East. 26080satellites that were ejected from OPAL-1. 26089Asia CEllular Satellite system to provide 26089hand-held mobile & fixed-base terminals to 26089SE Asia, China & India. Lockheed-Martin won 26089contract to build 2 A2100 satellites. 26092Small communications test satellite. 26095transponders. Location at 162 degrees East. 26098assigned to the Ekspress-A06 position at 80 26098degrees East. 26102test the imager for treaty monitoring. 26107WorldSpace satellite at 105 degrees East. 26243Siberian-European Satellite to be located at 2624348 degrees East. Life = 10 years. 26352Geostationary Operational Environmental 26352Satellite to support NOAA's weather needs. 26356First fully successful Titan launch from ETR 26356in four tries. 26360is probably the 4,400 attempt to put an 26360object in orbit since Sputnik-1. 26369Planned for 36 degrees East. 26372last of this series. It has 6 C-band, and one 26372each L- and Ku-band transponders. 26374two experiments: Space Technology Research 26374Vehicle-2 [STRV-2] and Compact Environmental 26374Anomaly Sensor [CEASE]. 26382older generation GOES satellites. 26384Carries the COSPAR-SARSAT equipment used to 26384locate distress signals from ships and 26384aircraft. 26385built in the UK. It will rendezvous with the 26385SNAP-1 satellite. 26386Has own navigation, rockets & imaging systems 26386capable of inspecting other satellites in 26386orbit. To rendezvous with TZINGHUA-1. 26390Sirius Satellite Radio of New York. Direct 26390audio services satellite built by Loral. The 26390plan is to serve motor vehicles all over the 26390North American continent with 100 channels of 26390commercial free music, news and sports. Plan 26390is for system to be ready at the end of 2000. 26390Formerly CD Radio, Inc. of Washington, DC. 26394with a five year life. Reached geosynchronous 26394orbit at 0620 GMT on 5 July 2000. 2640036 m long. Prime Progress docking port. Fuel 26400passes through this module to the FGB. Docked 26400to the ISS at 0045 GMT on 26 July 2000. ISS 26400is now ready for the first manned stay. 26402TV channel capacity and expand service to 26402Alaska and Hawaii. To be located at 212 East 26402for testing, and 241 East for operations. 26405Will do geophysical, geodetic & oceanographic 26405studies and forecast the weather. CHAMP means 26405Challenging Mini-satellite Payload. 26407Upgraded replacement for GPS satellites. 26410fast diagnostic tool for studying the Earth- 26410Sun connection and entry of plasma into the 26410magnetosphere. 26411fast diagnostic tool for studying the Earth- 26411Sun connection and entry of plasma into the 26411magnetosphere. 26451A Hughes HS-601HP communications satellite. 26451Deployed size is 86 m long & 7 m wide. The 24 26451C- & 24 Ku-band transponders have 9.9 kw of 26451power. Covers Latin America & Western Europe. 26451Launch took place at 206 degrees East on the 26451equator. Replaces PAS-05 at 302 East. 26463Revival of the 'Cluster' program is now 26463complete. Using an Arianespace rocket was too 26463expensive, so Two Russian rockets were used. 26463Two Soyuz rockets cost 2/3rds that of an 26463Ariane rocket. Purpose of the 2 year mission 26463is to study the complex interactions of the 26463Earth and the Sun. Using sensors from back-up 26463material for the first Cluster satellites. 26469it's 12 year lifetime. Provide Communications 26469and TV to South America. 26470provide coverage from North Africa to the Far 26470East. Built by ASTRIUM, a joint venture by 26470EADS and British Aerospace. 26477This civil [military?] communications unit 26477has been called Cosmos 2372 by some. NASA is 26477using the Raduga name. 26481Brazilian satellite [CBERS-1] launched last 26481October. Resolution 20-30 meters. 26483radio system to supply commercial free music, 26483sports and news. System to be ready by the 26483end of 2000. 26494To be co-located with ASTRA 2A in the new 26494slot at 26.2 degrees East. 26536Environmental Satellite is the first POES 26536satellite launch in the three decades of the 26536NOAA program. Also carries SARSAT equipment. 26545Small Malaysian science project that will be 26545used for distant probing of the Earth. 26546environmental control. 26547as and educational and scientific tool. 26548designed for educational & scientific tasks. 26549designed for educational & scientific tasks. 26554A high powered Ku-band replacement satellite. 26554To provide communications coverage to China, 26554Northeast Asia, the Philippines and India. A 2655415 year life is planned. 26561satellite lost in a 4 Nov 96 launch when the 26561satellites did not separate [See PEGASUS]. It 26561is designed to locate mysterious gamma-ray 26561bursts and other explosive cosmic phenomena. 26561Will detect up to 1,000 bursts per year. To 26561provide very detailed information on location 26561and light characteristics [spectra] on about 2656130 of the 1,000. 26564An interim attempt to keep the Glonass system 26564operating with 12 units through 2002. 26566Glonass system replacement. 26575Military mission. 265781.8 billion people in the Mid-East, Africa, 26578Europe, Central Asia and Indian subcontinent. 26578Can handle 13,750 simultaneous calls. To be 26578placed at 44 degrees East for a 12 year life. 26580Separated from Proton at 0441 GMT 22 Oct 00. 26590Will be used for direct broadcast TV, rural 26590telephones, high speed data and other online 26590services. Using a 61 cm dish receiver, it can 26590reach markets from London to Singapore and to 26590South Africa [and places in between]. 26599Chinese for Northern Dipper, equivalent to 26599Ursa Major. Size of planned constellation is 26599not known. While claimed to be only for 26599civilian purposes, military applications 26599would be improving missile accuracy, and for 26599smart bombs like those used by NATO against 26599the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. 26605Upgraded GPS replacement. Will enter service 26605in December 2000. The are 15 more satellites 26605in the Block IIR series for launch through 266052005 by Delta boosters. 26609Advanced capabilities for amateur radio. In 26609addition to multiple frequencies, it carries 26609an ammonia arcjet thruster, a laser comm. 26609experiment, and the first to have deployable 26609solar panels. 26610accelerated life testing of new components & 26610materials in the high radiation environment 26610of GTO. 26611Space Test Program experiment [S97-2], a 26611camera, technology and computer experiments. 26619Earth Observing-1 is a New Millennium program 26619follow-on to the Landsat satellites. EO-1 26619will be following Landsat-7 by about 1 minute 26619so technicians can compare the two systems 26619and test the new technologies. 26620monitor forests with Argentine Multi-spectral 26620Medium Resolution Scanner [MMRS]. This joint 26620Argentine, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy and 26620USA mission will study Earth's air, land and 26620water. NASA hopes to study earthquake faults 26620while others will study whales. 26621aurora, which occurs when charged particles 26621collide with particles in Earth's atmosphere. 26624band transponders. To be placed at 252.7 deg. 26624East in early 2001 and have a 15 year life. 26624This is the most powerful communications 26624satellite launched to date and will serve 26624customers across North and South America. It 26624has been experiencing solar panel power 26624problems and will be replaced by Anik F1R in 26624late 2005. 26626initial plan. Now part of 3 elliptical orbit 26626satellites. Motorists in the continental USA 26626will, at the start of the millennium be able 26626to hear 50 channels of digital quality news, 26626sports, talk, comedy and children's programs. 26626In addition, another 50 channels will carry 26626all types of music. All commercial free. 26631Remote sensing for Israel. Similar to the 26631Ofeq [Horizon] spy satellites. It will take 26631images of objects as small as 2 meters. They 26631will be downloaded to 14 receiving centers 26631around the world and then distributed to 26631customers. 26638plan to deliver digital DTH service to the UK 26638and Ireland using 16 Ku-band transponders. 26639GE Americom. Placed at 221 degrees East. With 2663924 C-band transponders, it is planned to 26639service the Alaskan area. 26643Chinese for Northern Dipper, equivalent to 26643Ursa Major. Second of planned constellation 26643of unknown size. Positioning of this and 26643future units will confirm either civilian 26643or military purposes of this system. 2666632 Ku-band transponders - 42 degrees East. 26666It will cover Europe, the Middle East & Asia 26666during it's planned 15 year life. 26690Replacement satellite for the degrading unit 26690USA 066 that is three years older than it was 26690expected to last. It will be placed in slot 26690E4, and USA 066 will be moved to slot E5. 26694Allarmi. For 16 degrees East. Was thought to 26694be part of civilian commsat to save money. 26694Original launch was reported to be in 1995. 26695It is the 21st & last of the OTS/ECS class 26695European Communications Satellites first 26695launched in September 1977. 26700USA laboratory module. Following a small leak 26700of ammonia over spacewalker Bob Curbeam's 26700spacesuit, Destiny was docked to the Unity 26700module at 1900 GMT on 10 Feb 2001. 26702satellite payloads include a submillimeter 26702wave astronomy instrument and a radiometer 26702for atmospheric studies. 267152nd generation of US Dod missions. 26719New name for the EUTELSAT W satellites. 26720the second orbital STAR-class TV satellite. 26724was called Rock. Carries S-band transponders. 26734Mars Exploration Program. The three primary 26734instruments are: THEMIS [Thermal Emission 26734Imaging System]; GRS [Gamma Ray Spectrometer] 26734and the MARIE [Mars Radiation Environment 26734Experiment]. Went into Mars orbit on 24 Oct 267342001. To scan Mars from January 2002 through 26734July 2004. 26761This satellite finishes the North American 26761S-band radio broadcasting system similar to 26761the Sirius Radio Satellites. These XM units 26761will be in geosynchronous orbits, while the 26761Sirius units [3] are in highly elliptical sun 26761synchronous orbits over North America. 26766To distribute digital TV broadcasts, data and 26766internet services to Asia, Africa, the Middle 26766East and Africa. Life span is 15 years. To be 26766located at 68.5 degrees East and has 24 each 26766C- and Ku-band transponders. 26770Experiment to test laser communications. 26818Parus class navigation satellite. Last launch 26818of this type was on 26 Aug 1999. 26824Initially for Indian Ocean using C- and Ku- 26824band transceivers. 15 year life over Atlantic 26824Ocean at 342 degrees East. It uses a Ku-spot 26824band for Europe and a C-band for over the 26824Atlantic Ocean region. There are six more of 26824the 900 [IX] series, two of the X series and 26824one all Ku-band APR-3 satellites planned for 26824launch before 2004. 26853programming to Europe from 28.2 degrees East. 26853This is the 12th satellite for the Societe 26853Europeene des Satellites [SES]. Expected life 26853is 15 years. 26857ICO Global Communications]. It will provide 26857mobile communications & data/internet service 26857in the C- and S-bands. It can support 4,500 26857simultaneous calls. New ICO is based in the 26857United Kingdom. 26859radiometer to provide understanding of 26859cosmological structure formation model that 26859describes our universe. MID-sized EXplorer. 26863Advanced Relay and TEchnology MISsion. Former 26863names SAT2 and TM. Demo ion thrusters, nickel 26863hydrogen batteries. To be placed at 15-20 deg 26863East. Failure of the Ariane 510 booster to 26863place the satellite in a proper orbit will, 26863at least, limit the life. Onboard engines can 26863probably boost it to a usuable orbit. 26867Based on NASA's first name [1-K] this may be 26867a new system. However, All NASA sections have 26867now listed this as Molniya 3-51. 26871A NOAA weather satellite. Has a single solar 26871array, a solar attitude control sail and a 26871new solar soft X-ray imager. 26873radiation instruments to detect Solar events 26873and resulting terrestrial interaction. 26880satellite in its final orbit, with separation 26880taking place at 1430 GMT. 26892Believed to be a missile warning satellite 26892similar to Cosmos 2345, launched in Aug 1997. 26899is a conical ballast payload with monitoring 26899instrumentation attached to the second stage. 26899NASA lists this as a rocket body - not as a 26899payload. 26900transceivers. 15 year life. Planned for 66 26900degrees East as a replacement for Intelsat 26900602, which will be moved to 33 degrees East. 26905The USAF announced that the satellite was 26905successfully separated from the booster. 2692726 Ku-band transponders - 352 degrees East. 26927To replace Telecom 2A and provide TV, telecom 26927and data services to Europe and transatlantic 26927links as required. 26930Carries a polymer battery experiment and 26930ionospheric instruments for USAF experiments. 26931US Naval Academy students. 26932experimental infrared horizon sensors, a 26932voice synthesizer and a digital camera. 26934personnel reported a successful separation 26934from the second stage at 2130 GMT. 26948This is the third NRO launch in two months. 26948At 0300 GMT the spacecraft was successfully 26948separated from the Centaur motor. 26953DigitalGlobe [formerly Earth Watch] venture. 26957Test Evaluation Satellite to carry out aerial 26957mapping of the coast and the borders with 26957China and Pakistan. Work started in July 1999 26957after Pakistan moved troops into mountains 26957of Jannu and Kashmir. Also is a test of spy 26957or surveillance capabilities for India. 26958debris impact detectors, Earth imaging camera 26958and other experiments. 26959testing a new sensor for Earth imaging study, 26959detecting forest fires and other hot spots. 26959Is also expected to be used for vegetation 26959studies. 26970satellite. This is the second Molniya 3 to 26970be launched this year. 26985Ku-band transponders for 259 degrees East. 26988Placed at plane/slot 1/03. Operating as of 4 26988Jan 02. 26997Replacement for Topex-Poseidon, ocean monitor 26997satellite, launched in 1992. Carries the 26997Poseidon-2 and orbital tracking experiments. 26997Satellite 472 kg with 28 kg of propellant. 26998and Dynamics. Previously had a High [-H] and 26998a Low [-L] mission. This is a combined flight 26998to save money. This will be the first mission 26998to conduct a global study of the Mesosphere & 26998Lower Thermosphere/Ionospher [MLTI] region. 26998Planned to collect data for two years. 27001Sage-3 instrument for measuring the Earth's 27001Ozone layer. Meteor's duties are to improve 27001weather forecasts of cyclones and tropical 27001storms. This will help select the best routes 27001for ships and planes, and observe the borders 27001of the ice crust in the Arctic. 27002Built for the IZMIRAN Geophysics Institute & 27002carries a magnetometer and other sensors in 27002order to try and predict earthquakes. 27003Ltd [SIL] of the UK and has an Earth immager. 27004Technical University of Berlin for the Centre 27004Royal de Teledetection Spatiale, Morocco. As 27004it was built for Morocco, they should be the 27004owners. It carries an Earth imagery system & 27004a store-forward communications test system. 27005debris studies. 27055Store-Dump communications satellite for 27055military use. Formerly called a 'six-pack'. 27056military use. Formerly called a 'six-pack'. 27057military use. Formerly called a 'six-pack'. 27058use. Started as all six being military types. 27058Rather than refer to these satellites using 27058the 'D1' name, NASA is listing them using the 27058numeric sequence that includes all attempts. 27058Gonets 1 was Cosmos 2199 and Gonets 2 was 27058Cosmos 2201. Add the six successful and three 27058failures and you get these as numbers 12-14. 27059use. Started as all six being military types. 27059Rather than refer to these satellites using 27059the 'D1' name, NASA is listing them using the 27059numeric sequence that includes all attempts. 27059Gonets 1 was Cosmos 2199 and Gonets 2 was 27059Cosmos 2201. Add the six successful and three 27059failures and you get these as numbers 12-14. 27060use. Started as all six being military types. 27060Rather than refer to these satellites using 27060the 'D1' name, NASA is listing them using the 27060numeric sequence that includes all attempts. 27060Gonets 1 was Cosmos 2199 and Gonets 2 was 27060Cosmos 2201. Add the six successful and three 27060failures and you get these as numbers 12-14. 27168the payload fairing separated two minutes 27168later. The Centaur motor fired at 0039 GMT. 27168The satellite was delivered to geostationary 27168orbit at about 0706 GMT. 27298S-band and 30 C-band transponders. Because of 27298the tensions between India and Pakistan, some 27298analysts believe this satellite may have at 27298least some military usage in addition to the 27298commercial TV it is advertised to have. 27367demonstrations of commercial subsystems that 27367include a parallel computer, a soldid state 27367recorder, a nickel-hydrogen battery and solar 27367cells. Also a space environment experiment to 27367monitor heavy ions and magnetic fields. 27368Hypervelocity is a small payload to test the 27368reentry system of the MUSES-C asteroid probe. 27368The reentry speed was expected to be 10 km/s. 27368The normal reentry speed has been 7.5 km/s. 27368The small Vehicle Evaluation Payload is to 27368evaluate the H-2A's performance. Formerly the 27368VEP-3 was listed on the Rocket Body (27369). 27370study particle acceleration & energy release 27370in Solar flares. This sixth Small Explorer 27370has been delayed 18 months and has missed a 27370number of major solar flares at Solar Max. It 27370is expected to see some big ones even now. 27372claims to have 66 active and 7 [now 12] on 27372orbit spares. Launched into Plane 3 and will 27372be moved as needed. NASA is calling the owner 27372USA. Of course they have gone from Iridium to 27372USA to Iridium to USA since 1 Jan 2002. The 27372latest seems to show the objects on orbit are 27372USA, while those decayed are Iridium. 27378uses a Russian RD-180 main stage. It also has 27378a new Common Centaur stretched two engine 27378upper stage. The satellite uses Ku-band 27378transponders and is planned for 241 degrees 27378East. It will replace Echostar IV. 27380life expectancy. It is planned for Indian 27380Ocean operations. 27386Advanced remote sensing satellite. To perform 27386Atmospheric sounding, imaging with Advanced 27386Synthetic Aperture Radar, oceanographic data 27386research and ocean surface variations. Using 27386a space thermometer, the Advanced Along Track 27386Scanning Radiometer [AATSR], to measure sea 27386temperatures worldwide. This is the largest 27386satellite to be built by ESA. 27389New Tactical Data Relay Satellite for NASA. 27389This improved version [like TDRS 08] is able 27389to transmit data at speeds 5,000 times faster 27389than a 56K modem. It is essential to NASA's 27389programs - from the shuttle to the newly 27389refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Reports 27389by mid-March indicated that there was a 27389problem with the fuel. It was the ability to 27389transfer the fuel at high speed. So the fuel 27389was slowly moved to the engine, and the work 27389of moving the satellite progressed. TDRS was 27389moved to its geostationary altitude by early 27389October 2002. 27391measure variations in the Earth's gravity 27391field while flying 220 km from Grace-2. The 27391distance will be maintained by a precise 27391microwave ranging system that will measure 27391the distance to within one-tenth the width of 27391a human hair. The final details may be used 27391to determine where their is oil. 27392measure variations in the Earth's gravity 27392field while flying 220 km from Grace-1. See 27392Grace-1 [SSC 29391] for more details. 27399Japan Satellite System Corporation uses a 27399Hughes HS 601 platform with 16 Ku- and 16 C- 27399band transponders for this eighth unit. It is 27399to replace JCSAT 2. 27403transceivers for voice and data transmission 27403in the Atlantic region. 15 year life planned. 27409US Space Command had been unable to locate it 27409and it's upper stage up through 17 Apr 02. 27414New Skies Satellites N.V. is a wholly owned 27414subsidiary of Intelsat. As it is based in 27414the Netherlands, NASA lists it's owner as the 27414Netherlands. To replace NSS-803 and NSS-K at 27414338.5 degrees East. It has 36 C- and 36 Ku- 27414band transponders. Design life 12 years. 27421Upgraded SPOT-4 with 2.5 meter resolution in 27421it's HRVIR imaging camera. It also carries a 27421secondary experiment - a 5-band Vegetation-2 27421instrument with 1 km resolution. 27422Ariane rocket. The first French satellite was 27422named Asterix after a famous comic book 27422character - this is his cat. 27424precipitation, terrestrial snow and sea ice, 27424and sea surface temperature and ocean 27424productivity in the afternoon. It has a 27424number of remote sensing experiments. 27426It will replace DirecTV-6 which will then be 27426used as an on-orbit spare. DirecTV-5 will be 27426used primarily for Spanish broadcasting. 27430payload. It may be Feng Yun 1D. Time will 27430tell. 27431weather satellite. As of 19 May 2002, the US 27431Space Command has not determined which of the 27431two payloads on this launch is which. 27434satellite. It may have other intelligence 27434systems aboard. 27438Will direct beams over the America's, Europe, 27438Africa and the Middle East. On-board power is 2743810 KW [BOL] and will decrease to 8 KW in 13 27438years when it is expected to be finished. 27441Carries 12 C- and five Ku-band transponders. 27441It is a replacement for Express-A01. 27445Galaxy IIIC contains 24 C-band and 52 Ku-band 27445transponders that are expected to work for 2744515 years [or more]. The launch platform was 27445located on the equator at 206 degrees E. 27453satellite will be run through tests for about 2745345 days. It is a 'morning' satellite as it 27453crosses the equator at about 1000 hours in 27453the time zone it is crossing. 27460Has both C- and Ku-band transponders for 27460internet and video communications. Colocated 27460with Telecom 2C at 355 degrees East. 27461communications. It will be placed at 136 27461degrees East. 27464orbit and inclination. Mission is believed to 27464be a Strela-3 communications satellite for 27464the military. It would be a store-forward 27464system and can cover the entire planet. 27465orbit and inclination. Mission is believed to 27465be a Strela-3 communications satellite for 27465the military. It would be a store-forward 27465system and can cover the entire planet. 27470similar to Cosmos 2344 launched back in June 274701997. While the site, booster and inclination 27470match, the apogee is lower by about 950 km & 27470the perigee is higher by about 50 km. This 27470could indicate a modification of the mission 27470profile or that one had some problems with 27470reaching the proper orbit. 27499placed at 13 degrees East to expand EutelSats 27499radio and TV broadcasting to Europe, North 27499Africa and the Middle East. This was the 27499first launch of the new Atlas-5 booster. 27501has Ku-band transponders and will serve the 2750150 United States and Puerto Rico. The USSC 27501reserved SSC numbers 27502 and 27503 for the 275013rd stage and platform of the SL-12. Either 27501they never reached orbit or decayed before 27501they could be cataloged. This is similar to 27501the 'reserved' ssc numbers with the INTELSAT 27501903 launch. Object 27504 is the 4th stage and 27501has been renumbered 2002-039B vice D. 27509MSG stands for Meteosat Second Generation. It 27509will be joined by two more & provide weather 27509services for Europe for the next ten years. 27509It also carries the GEOSAR search and rescue 27509transponder. NASA lists the owner as the 27509European Organization for the Exploitation of 27509Meteorological Satellites [EUMETSAT]. This 27509organization is reported to have owned the 27509other METSATs [7] but were assigned ownership 27509to ESA. 27513to replace and enhance system capacity by the 27513end of 2003. It is planned for 64 degrees E. 27513With 72 C- and 22 Ku-band transponders, it 27513will have coverage of Europe, Asia, Australia 27513and Africa. It will replace IS-804, which 27513will be moved to 176 degrees East. 27525A weather satellite for geosynchronous orbit, 27525it was launched on the Indian PSLV booster 27525with an upgraded 4th stage. Probably because 27525this was a 'new' launch vehicle, USSC was not 27525able to locate it for nearly two days. 27528several weeks for the satellite to settle 27528into it's geo-slot at 330 degrees East. It 27528will offer services to the Americas, Europe, 27528North Africa and the Middle East. 27534This navigation satellite has been called 27534Nadezhda-M. Nadezhda 07 is from NASA. This 27534satellite will be used to help calibrate 27534navigation systems on Earth. It also carries 27534the COSPAS-SARSAT transponder for the 27534international search and rescue network. 27540A new observatory set to revolutionise the 27540branch of astrophysics that seeks to unravel 27540the secrets of the highest energy phenomena 27540in the Universe. By combining data from the 4 27540instruments, it will be possible to make 27540simultaneous observations of high-energy 27540phenomena at seven orders of magnitude, from 27540visible light to gamma rays. 27550is superior in technology to the previous one 27550that was launched in September 2000. 27554Eutelsat W5 has 24 Ku-band transponders. It 27554is reported to be for the Asian market. It 27554was launched on the first Delta 4 booster, 27554referred to as a Delta 4M+(4,2). 27559This is the first of a constellation to give 27559imagery assistance to rescuers following 27559natural or man-made disasters. The satellite 27559carries a 32 meter resolution imager. Surrey 27559Satellite built the satellite for the Centre 27559National des Techniques Spatiales of Algiers. 27560to the Zeya and Radio-ROSTO satellites. The 27560payload was student built at the Mozhaisky 27560military academy in St. Petersburg. 27561body. Other sources say there is a third 27561payload on this launch called RUBIN-3-DSI. It 27561measures the launch vehicle's performance and 27561environment. This 45 kg payload is probably 27561attached to the rocket body. 27566This is the third and last of the advanced 27566TDRS communications satellites. NASA should 27566be in good shape for the next ten years with 27566this satellite in place. 27598This is the first international payload to be 27598launched by the Japanese. It is intended to 27598bring internet services to remote parts of 27598Australia. 27599be used to track whales with attached special 27599transmitters. 27600it also tested the separation mechanism for 27600the Selene Moon probe subsatellites. 27603degrees East. It will service areas from 27603India through China plus Australia. 27605Gavazzi Space organization. 27608University of Roma/La Sapienza. 27609mockup of the transorbital Trailblazer lunar 27609probe payload. 27618Planned for plane 3. 27632Canada expects this satellite to take a few 27632weeks for checkout and then serve Northern 27632North America for at least 12 years. 27640Part of the USAF Space Test Program. The US 27640Navy Windsat polarimetric radiometer studies 27640the strength and direction of ocean surface 27640winds. 27642satellite. It is designed to look at the ice 27642sheets at the poles and log the changes in 27642the elevation during the three year mission. 27643called the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma 27643spectrometer satellite. While ICESAT will be 27643looking at the Earth, CHIPSat will look at 27643the stars. 27651The L-1011 aircraft was at approximately 2765112,000 meters, 161 km east of the Canaveral 27651AFS when it released the Pegasus XL booster. 27651The SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment 27651carries four instruments to better determine 27651the effect of the Sun's radiation on the 27651Earth's atmosphere and climate. It will have 27651five years to complete the mission. 27663configuration. 27683IS-907 will be placed at 332.5 degrees East & 27683be operational in March 2003. It has 76 C- & 2768322 Ku-band transponders that will offer 27683Telephone, corporate networks, internet, 27683video and hybrid/terrestrial solutions to 27683customers in Western Europe & Western Africa 27683with their Ku-bands, plus access to Europe, 27683Africa and the Americas with the C-bands. 27691This is reportedly the last of the III-A 27691versions. The next in the series is reported 27691to be DSCS III B-06. 27698spy satellites that will be used to view the 27698situations in the Asian area. This one of 27698two launched (see also 27699) will deliver 27698conventional photographic imagery while the 27698other will have radar imaging capabilities. 27698North Korea is supposedly upset with this 27698launch, and threatens to launch its own spy 27698satellites. 27699spy satellites that will be used to view the 27699situations in the Asian area. This is the, 27699reportedly, radar version of the two launched 27699(see also 27698) & will deliver radar images. 27699North Korea is supposedly upset with this 27699launch, and threatens to launch its own spy 27699satellites. 277041990 that is nearing the end of its life. 27707and military communications in the northern 27707latitudes. 27711fourth of the Milstar II satellites. It has 27711both low and medium data rate payloads. 27714communications, weather and search-and-rescue 27714payloads. The primary payload is to provide 27714telecommunications and TV services for the 27714Indian subcontinent. 27715will provide communications links between the 27715continental US, Hawaii and Alaska with its 24 27715C-band transponders. 27718band transponders. It will provide direct TV 27718services to east Asia and Australia. 27783This is the seventh SMEX project for NASA, 27783called Small Explorer or the Galaxy Evolution 27783Explorer. The GALEX will make images in UV of 27783the entire Galaxy. 27807band transponders. It also has a Solar X-ray 27807spectrometer and an ionospheric beacon 27807experiment. 27809a sample and, hopefully, return to Earth. The 27809asteroid is 1998 SF36 [AKA Itokawa]. On 12 27809August 2005 it was 35,000 km from Itokawa. 27809In September it was 'hovering' about 20 km 27809from the asteroid. In October it dropped to 7 27809kilometers. On 12 November it came within 55 27809meters and released the Minerva lander that 27809floated away rather than land. It tried again 27809on 19 November to land another marker. And, 27809finally, the probe landed and collected some 27809asteroid dust at 2207 GMT on 25 Nov 2005. It 27809took off from Itokawa soon thereafter for its 27809return to Earth in 2010. It had some thruster 27809problems and was put in safe mode. Landing on 27809Earth is planned for Australia in 2010. 27811transmit coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic 27811Games worldwide. It will also be a main 27811channel for communications between Greeks 27811abroad and both Greece and Cyprus. 27813This is the third navigation satellite for 27813the Chinese. The other two were launched in 278132000, and have been stable at 80.5 and 140.1 27813degrees East. Both now seem to be moving west 27813to make room for this new unit. The Chinese, 27813like the Russians and Europeans, do not want 27813to be dependant on the US GPS system. This 27813system could be beneficial to guided weapons 27813improvements like cruise missiles. However, 27813the help would only be in the Asian area. 27816Mars. Mars Express has partially released its 27816rover, Beagle-2, as planned. Then flew on to 27816Mars where Beagle-2 was released on 17 Dec to 27816a landing. There it will dig in the soil to 27816a distance of 2 meters testing for water and 27816signs of life. Meanwhile, the 'Express' will 27816go into orbit and activate its seven on-board 27816sensors. Data from both vehicles will be sent 27816back to Earth. For some unknown reason NASA 27816has listed both Mars Express and Fregat DS 27816Rocket Body [27817] as decayed on 12 June. 27816Beagle 2 landed on Mars on 25 December. As of 2781630 January 2004, no signals had been heard. 27820band transponders. It will be located at 275 27820degrees East, pending FCC approval, & support 27820communications in North America. 27825Launched from 206 degrees East on the equator 27825the Zenit 3SL placed this L-band mobile phone 27825satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit 27827It landed on Mars at 0426 GMT on 4 Jan 2004. 27827The name 'Spirit' was assigned by a third 27827grade student. By 20 January, Spirit failed 27827to respond to NASA commands. By 25 January it 27827was headed for recovery and sent back good 27827pictures by the end of the month. The landing 27827site was named the Columbia Memorial Station. 27830Coropration will support other similar P/Ls 27830in the 95-96 degree East orbit position. 27831has an Australian Department of Defence P/L 27831aboard. 27834of the country. 27838meter panchromatic & 3.0 meter multispectral 27838images. The L-1011 launched the Pegasus from 27838about 100 km SW of Vandenberg AFB. The 370 27838kg weight probably includes about 50 kg of 27838hydrazine for orbital maneuvers. 27841Built by Space Devices Ltd. of Praha and 27841operated by the Astronomical Institute of the 27841Czech Academy of Sciences. It carries an 27841accelerometer to study atmospheric density. 27842lowering the satellites orbit. 27843of STars experiment. It has a 0.15m telescope 27843that will make photometric observations of 27843stars down to mag 6. 27845ELF emissions from seismic activity. 27846Earth observations. 278490436 GMT and headed toward Mars. At about 278490505 GMT on 25 Jan 04 Opportunity bounced to 27849a landing on Mars. It reported home that it 27849was safe and sound and sent spectacular 27849pictures of its landing site, named the 27849Challenger Memorial Station by NASA. 27852Martin, was successfully launched on the 27852Lockheed Martin Atlas V (521). It is expected 27852to be able to deliver up to 468 TV channels. 27852The satellite will be checked out for three 27852months and then go into competition with Dish 27852network and DirecTV. 27854to be EchoStar-09 & only carry Ka- & Ku-band 27854transpondeers in support of the DISH direct 27854broadcast TV network. Space Systems Loral 27854built the satellite with additional C-band 27854transponders and dubbed that portion TelStar 2785413 which will provide cable TV service for 27854North and Central America, Alaska, Hawaii and 27854Puerto Rico. 27858This Canadian Space Agency payload carries a 27858spectrometer to study the chemestry of the 27858troposphere and stratosphere. Its MAESTRO 27858instrument will study the ozone and aerosol 27858levels in the atmosphere. 278682391 back on 8 July 2002. This is also 27868believed to be a Strela-3 store-dump military 27868communications satellite. 278692391 back on 8 July 2002. This is also 27869believed to be a Strela-3 store-dump military 27869communications satellite. 27871off on its 2.5-5 year mission. This is the 27871last of NASA's Great Observatories and is 27871designed to use its IR detectors to pierce 27871the dusty darkness enshrouding brown dwarfs, 27871planet-forming debris discs around stars and 27871galaxies billions of light years away. SIRTF 27871has a 0.85 meter IR telescope with a liquid- 27871helium cooled focal plane carrying the IRAC, 27871IRS and MIPS instruments. In December 2003 it 27871was renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope for 27871Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr. who was at the front 27871of astronomy in the 20th century. 27875This is the final DSCS satellite launched by 27875the USA. It is to be located over the western 27875Atlantic and is a replacement for the still 27875usable USA 113 (DSCS 3B-07) that was launched 27875on 31 July 1995. The DSCS system will be 27875replaced starting in 2005 by a system called 27875Wideband Gap Filler. 27937satellite was launched on the last of the 27937Titan-4B/Centaur rockets. It had a 26 meter 27937fairing and appeared to be similar to USA 110 27937and USA 139. Possibly an Electronic mission. 27939used in the future Glonass navigation 27939satellites. It was built by students in the 27939Mozhaisk Military Space Academy. 27940stage to measure the launch enviroment and 27940transmit that data back to the control center 27940via the Orbcomm communications satellites. 27941of the disaster monitoring constellation. 27944satellite 27945known as Korea Advanced Institute of Science 27945and Technology SATellite, is a technology 27945demonstration system that is to test new 27945satellite systems. It also has five science 27945experiments provided by an international 27945team of researchers. 27951Planned for a position at 55 degrees East, it 27951will provide a full range of communications 27951services to the Indian sub-continent. It has 2795124 C-band & 12 extended C-band transponders. 27954platform located at 0 North and 206 degrees 27954East. The C-band payload is owned by Panamsat 27954while the HORIZONS-1 payload is jointly owned 27954by Panamsat and the Japanese JSAT corporation 27954[Ku-Band transponders]. 28051IRS-P6 is to replace IRS-1C and IRS-1D. It 28051carries three cameras for remote sensing with 28051the highest resolution being six meters. This 28051would allow it to ID bridges and airfield 28051facilities if it was a spy satellite. 28054The USAF launched the 20th DMSP 5D series on 2805418 October. The previous plan was for this to 28054launch in 1999. There are four of this series 28054still in storage for future launches. 28057to be operated, first by China [18 months], 28057and then by Brazil. There are to be two more 28057of these missions in the future. 28058satellite 28060Verification of Integrated System satellite. 28060It is to qualify a variety of spacecraft 28060components such as navigation, computer, star 28060tracker, batteries and a laser gyro. Its 28060overall purpose is to improve the reliability 28060of Japanese satellites. 28082It took about four days for NASA to report on 28082the location of this satellite. It's reported 28082that this is probably part of the Feng Huo 28082military communications system. 28089Russian Gazcom company. It has 28 C- and 16 28089Ku-band transponders and is expected to be 28089located at 49 degrees East. Initially, it was 28089called CONGLOMERATE in the NASA reports, the 28089same name initially used for Cosmos 2397. 28089Names have been YAMAL A (CIS), then YAMAL 202 28089for India, then YAMAL A for the CIS. 28094Russian Gazcom company. It has 28 C- and 16 28094Ku-band transponders and is expected to be 28094located at 90 degrees East. NASA refered to 28094it as OBJECT B in the first few reports. 28094Names have been YAMAL B (CIS), then YAMAL 201 28094for India, then YAMAL B for the CIS. 28112This launch included three Glonass payloads 28112that includes one of the modified versions. 28112The three payloads will fill Plane 1, Slots 281121, 2 and 4. 28113that includes one of the modified versions. 28113The three payloads will fill Plane 1, Slots 281131, 2 and 4. 28114that includes one of the modified versions. 28114The three payloads will fill Plane 1, Slots 281141, 2 and 4. 28117satellite. 28129older unit that requires the controllers to 28129"manually" move the solar panels. 28132as a Central European REgional Satellite. 28134PM and Alcatel Space for GPKS. 28140This is a magnetospheric research satellite. 28140Aboard are five ESA sensors that were tested 28140in China prior to launch. This satellite is 28140traversing at a 28-29 degree inclination. 28154This SES Americom satellite is an all C-Band 28154system with 24 transponders. It will be put 28154at 225 degrees East and replace SATCOM C-4. 28154This HD Prime system is expected to deliver 28154full service in early May 2004. 28158geosynchronous orbit based on the two IUS 28158parts listed by NASA. There is one more 28158Titan-4B left for launch from Florida. Two 28158more are to be launched from the west coast. 28163military exercise Bezopasnost'. It was called 28163a Molniya & then Oko early warning satellite. 28163The Russian Space Forces have renamed this a 28163a Molniya satellite. NASA called this Cosmos 281632405 through mid-June 2004 but also called 28163ssc 28352 Cosmos 2406. Molniya 1-91 had this 28163same problem. 28169space mission. During the next ten years this 28169satellite will be in heliocentric orbit. But, 28169for the user of this system, its route will 28169defined by the planets it uses to accelerate 28169to its primary target. It will have a Earth 28169flyby in Nov 2005, a Mars flyby in Feb 2007, 28169and two more Earth flybys in Nov 2007 and Nov 281692009. It will reach comet 67P/Churyumov- 28169Gerasimenko in mid-2014. At that point it 28169will orbit the comet and drop the Philae 28169lander on the surface. 28184to beam music and video to portable palm-size 28184terminals in Japan and South Korea. Life at 28184144 degrees East is an expected 12 years. 28187provide distance learning, internet access 28187and telemedicine access for users in Africa. 28187Communications with Europe and the Middle 28187East are also part of the package. 28194was listed as 2406 by the Russians. The 28194mission is almost certainly communications 28194rather than missile warning. The Russian 28194Space Forces have now renamed this satellite 28194Raduga-1 07. 28220This satellite is designed with a stereo 28220capability for land resource mapping. 28221technology experiments. 28230This mission was initially planned back in 28230the 1950s. Orbiting Earth, it will test 28230Einstein's theory that space is curved and 28230that as the Earth rotates, it drags space and 28230time around with it. 28238The Zenit launcher has placed the heaviest 28238commercial satellite into orbit. As the 2nd 28238DirecTV spot bean satellite, it will give the 28238capacity to expand local channel coverage to 2823841 additional markets. 28252states, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. It 28252will be placed at 229 degrees East & replace 28252SATCOM C-3. It will broadcast on 24 C-band HD 28252TV transponders. The satellite was launched 28252on the second last Atlas IIAS booster. 28254Taurus XL booster. The payload has both a 28254black&white imager with 2-meter resolution, 28254and a color imager with 8-meter resolution. 28254It carries 50 kg of hydrazine for maneuvering 28254and raising its orbit. The final orbit is 28254expected to be nearly 900 km. 28352This ELINT satellite is similar to Cosmos 283522369 launched on 3 Feb 2000. 28358customers in August 2004 from 359 degrees E. 28358It has a total of up to 70 C-band and 36 Ku- 28358band 36 MHz equivalent unit transponders. It 28358will offer enhanced European, African and 28358Middle Eastern premium coverage and broad 28358coverage over Asia and the Americas. 28361as a replacement for USA 85. It should become 28361operational in July 2004. USA 85 exceeded 28361its planned life and now will be kept in the 28361F plane as a backup. 28364called Telstar 18. APT Satellite will control 28364the part called APTStar 5. It appears that 28364it will be primarily a US project, making the 28364primary name Telstar 18. 28366SpaceQuest/Aprize of Argentina. 28368The satellite contains French scientific 28368payloads. 28372SpaceQuest/Aprize of Argentina. 28376Earth Observation Series (EOS). It carries 4 28376instruments to help in the analysis of the 28376Earth we live on: HIRDLS, MLS, OMI and TES. 28376The three key questions it will answer are: 28376is the ozone layer recovering; what controls 28376air quality; and is Earth's climate changing. 28378and digital communications across North 28378America. It carries 100 C-, Ka- and Ku-band 28378transponders. 28382Aboard are five ESA sensors that were tested 28382in China prior to launch. This satellite is 28382traversing Earth at a 90 degree inclination 28382vice the 29 degree inclination of Tan Ce-1. 28384Office [NRO] mission. This was the last of 28384the Atlas boosters to be flown since they 28384were first tested in 1957. For some reason, 28384previously unused SSC [catalog] numbers were 28384used for this mission. 28391ENvironment GEochemestry, and Ranging, is on 28391its 7.9 billion kilometer trip to Mercury. 28391It will get a gravity assist from Earth in 28391the summer of 2005. Then two passes of Venus 28391followed by three passes on Mercury before it 28391goes into orbit in March of 2011. This is the 28391seventh Discovery mission. 28393to the CIS but it is built by Astrium for 28393the Spanish company Hispasat. It will be 28393operated by the Brazilian subsidiary Hispamar 28393and may, in time, be listed as belonging to 28393Brazil. It carries C- & Ku-band transponders 28393and will support communications in the 28393Americas. 28413One of two Chinese scientific satellites that 28413were launched on the same booster. 28414were launched on the same booster. 28417This satellite is dedicated exclusively to 28417educational services. It will operated from 28417its designated orbital slot at 74 degrees E. 28417It will be co-located with Kalpana-1 and 28417INSAT-3C. It carries six C-band and 6 Ku-band 28417transponders. 28419store/foreward communications system. It is 28419in a similar orbit to Cosmos 2390/2391 and 28419Cosmos 2400/2401. 28420store/foreward communications system. It is 28420in a similar orbit to Cosmos 2390/2391 and 28420Cosmos 2400/2401. 28446This is dedicated to the AMERICOM2 Home 28446program. It will serve the DISH TV network. 28446It has 12 Ka-band spot beams and 24 Ku-band 28446transponders. It will be located at 255 28446degrees East. 28451type. The first was destroyed in a ground 28451fire ten years ago. 28463Satellite was built for Kosmicheskaya Svyaz 28463and is reported to have L- C- and Ku-band 28463transponders. 28470called an Earth resources satellite. With a 284703 meter or better resolution, it probably has 28470a military role in addition to the implied 28470civilian mission. 28472degrees East. It carries 24 Ku-band 36 MHz 28472transponders along with 12 Ka-band 125 MHz 28472transponders. 28479satellite by NASA. Johnathan McDowell calls 28479it Shiyan-2. It is believed to be an imagery 28479type satellite. Possibly for both military & 28479civilian usage. 28485a near circular 600 km orbit. With a search 28485telescope to warn the main sensors of a Gamma 28485Ray burst, the satellite will then search 28485that area of the sky to capture the data in 28485the few seconds that the data is available. 28492built in France. 28493experiments for the Spanish. 28494intelligence satellites. 28495intelligence satellites. 28496intelligence satellites. 28497intelligence satellites. 28498formation. 28508This is the new 'M' series Glonass satellite. 28508It was initially listed as 'OBJECT A'. 28510This is one of the older Glonass types. 28510It was initially listed as 'OBJECT C'. 28517enroute to the comet Tempel-1. Impact was 28517planned for 4 July 2005. The primary sensor, 28517payload, will watch as the impactor strikes 28517the comet, and report its findings back to 28517Earth. The satellite is 850 kg while the 28517impactor that will be released is 170 kg. 28517The Impactor separated from the Flyby vehicle 28517at 0600 GMT on 3 July 2005. It slammed into 28517the comet Tempel 1 at about 10 km per second 28517at 0545 GMT on 4 July. It hit at a 25 degree 28517oblique angle and released an immense cloud 28517of fine powdery material. Over 4,500 images 28517were taken by the three Deep Impact cameras. 28521apparently ended up in a slightly lower orbit 28521than usual by about 40 km. Further evaluation 28521indicates that this lower altitude was due to 28521a heavier fairing and the extra payload. 28523radiation. It was built to celebrate the 28523250th anniv. of Moskovskiy Gosudarstvenniy 28523Universitet. 28526payload testing at 292.5 degrees East. Some 28526time in April 2005 it will be ready for duty 28526with it's 33 C-band transponders. Eighteen of 28526transponders have been purchased by Star One 28526of Brazil. This satellite will support data 28526services and digital video to N & S America 28526plus Europe and Africa. It replaces SATCOM C1 28526[SSC 20945] which had exceed its design life. 28537that is classified. The launch appeared to 28537be normal as the Atlas proceeded up the East 28537coast of North America. 28542Spain. It is for military use but it is 28542reported that 8 of the X-band transponders 28542will be leased to commercial users. 28544of fluids in space. It carries 33.5 liters of 28544water and was developed by the Netherlands 28544Aerospace Laboratory. 28622Replacement for MTSAT-1 lost in 1999 [89911]. 28622This is a multi-purpose satellite. It carries 28622L-band and GPS transponders for its air 28622traffic control mission and it also has a 28622meteorological capability. It will be placed 28622at 140 degrees East and is expected to last 28622for 10 years. It will replace Himawari 5 [AKA 28622GMS 5] [SSC 23522]. The area of coverage is 28622from Alaska/Hawaii to Australia to Siberia.` 28626Carries S-band transponders. Was launched 28626early because the solar panels on XM-1 and -2 28626had problems. Launch took place from the Sea 28626Launch platform at 206 degrees East on the 28626equator. The operational location will be at 28626275 degrees East. 28628internet access. To cover the world with 28628samples and messages (and Spam?), 28629Company. Built by Alcatel Space. Service life 28629is planned for 12 years. It will be placed at 2862980 degrees East. 28636with several payloads (non-operational) and 28636rocket bodies for autonomous inspection. It 28636is reported to be in a 99 degree inclination 28636which would imply an 800-850 km apogee and 28636targets being NOAA and DMSP satellites. 28638Ku-band transponders. It is expected to be 28638placed into 68, 80 or 92 degree geostationary 28638location. 28644This was a near perfect launch from 206 28644degrees East on the Eauator. Inclination was 28644perfect (0), the apogee was 34,132.4 km (high 28644by 4.4 km, the perigee was low by 0.01 km. 28644The four Spaceway Ka-band satellites planned 28644will allow DirecTV to deliver more than 1,500 28644local and national HD TV channels plus other 28644advanced programming services. This satellite 28644has 48 Ka-band transponders. Geostationary 28644location is planned for 257.2 degrees East. 28646Had a near perfect launch and was observed 28646proceeding up the East Coast following lift 28646off. It is reported that civilian observors 28646have sighted and plotted it's orbit. 28649will sand bach images of the Earth. It is the 2864911th Indian remote imaging satellite. 28650two transponders, both of which use UHF and 28650VHF frequencies. 28654forecasting capabilities in addition to being 28654able to monitor the environment. It is also 28654the fourth of the Polar-orbiting Operational 28654Environmental Satellites (POES). 28659It will replace some of the capabilities of 28659the older DirecTV satellites at 259 degrees 28659East, giving coverage of Alaska, Hawaii and 28659the 'lower 48'. 28702This satellite will offer powerful coverage 28702for the Americas, the Caribbean, Alaska and 28702Hawaii from its location at 271 degrees East. 28702This will be the first Intelsat satellite 28702that has a Ka-band capability. 28707East. It carries L-, C-, and Ku-band 28707transponders. 28737this series to launch from Jiuquan. The 28737satellite is not expected to be recovered. 28773that was lost in a launch failure in 2000. 28773Once it was launched, the name was changed 28773from Astro E2 to Suzaku. Suzaku means Red 28773Bird. The satellite carries five X-ray 28773telescopes. It has been reported that the XRS 28773instrument has ceased to operate. This was 28773the primary X-ray instrument aboard, and the 28773loss is considered significant. 28786Depending on the source, This is either 28786iPSTAR or Thaicom. It has a mission life of 2878612 years. It provides internet access and 28786broadband services to businesses and other 28786consumers with 84 spot beams, three shaped 28786beams and seven regional broadcast beams to 2878614 Asian Pacific countries. 28788data is good. The satellite fired its main 28788engines on 10 March 2006 and achieved a good 28788orbit of the planet. Aerobraking will be used 28788to create a stable orbit by November 2006 28788when the real science mission starts. 28790satellite network. It was launched with more 28790propellant because the SL-04 Fregat put it in 28790a different orbit than an Ariane-5, the first 28790choice, would have. 28809Engineering Test Satellite carries a laser 28809communications experiment that will use ESA's 28809Artemis geostationary satellite for tests. 28810demonstration auroral imager. 28822satellite has a projected life span of five 28822years. ITAR-TASS reported that there was a 28822loss of communications with the satellite in 28822the first few hours, but was soon corrected. 28868This is a replacement for Anik F1 launched in 288682000. Anik F1 has had solar panel power 28868problems. This unit has both C- and Ku-band 28868transponders. 28874This is the first of the modified/modernized 28874GPS IIR satellites. It has been listed by the 28874SatNews people as GPS IIR-14(M). It is to be 28874filling the Plane/Position C4 along with USA 28874091. It carries two new military signals and 28874a second civilian signal. 28883When the manned descent module is deorbited, 28883this section is left in orbit. In the past, 28883it has contained scientific experiments or 28883even imagery equipment. This makes it a 28883payload. 28884one will deliver HDTV to North America. It 28884also carries an L-band transponder as part of 28884the US Federal Aviation's Geostationary 28884Communications and Control Segment [GCCS] 28884program. It will relay GPS navigation data to 28884in-flight aircraft, providing very accurate 28884guidance to pilots at airports with no 28884precision landing capability. 28885French military. Limited information is 28885available. 28888the 368th Titan to be launched. The payload 28888is deployed under the direction of the 28888National Reconnaissance Office. 28890earthquake monitoring. It has one camera 28890that is able to monitor areas 600 X 600 km. A 28890second camera will take pictures of a 24 km 28890wide strip with a four meter resolution. This 28890makes the system particularly useful in 28890assessing earthquakes and flooding in urban 28890areas. 28891meter black & white resolution capability. 28891The color resolution is five meters. 28892this communications nano-satellite. 28893reported to have a mission of communications 28893and monitoring natural disasters [and spy 28893imagery?]. 28895This cubesat was built by the students of the 28895University of Tokyo. It was ejected from the 28895SSETI Express satellite. It was reported as 28895operating as planned. 28898This is a combination payload attached to the 28898second stage. Rubin had some technology 28898experiments and was planned to remain with 28898the rocket body. It is reported that the CIS 28898student built Mozhayets 5 satellite was not 28898ejected so the laser communications mission 28898was a failure. 28899speed mobile service in the Americas for 13 28899years. Asingle global beam covers about 1/3rd 28899of the Earth's surface. It also has 19 wide 28899spot beams and 228 narrow spot beams. Its 28899final location will be 307 degrees East. 28901visitor to Venus. The trip will take five 28901months ending in a near polar orbit in April 289012006. Seven primary instruments will then 28901study the the environment and atmosphere. 28902heaviest payload launched to date by an 28902Ariane 5. The satellite has 24 C-Band 28902transponders with a 15 year planned life. It 28902will be stationed at 108 degrees East. 28903heaviest payload launched to date by an 28903Ariane 5. This Ka-Band system for DirecTV is 28903capable of delivering more than 1,500 HDTV 28903channels to consumers in North America. It 28903will be stationed at 260.8 degrees East. 28908This is reported to be an improved store-dump 28908communications satellite for the military. It 28908was called Rodnik by ITAR-TASS news agency. 28909messenger store-dump communication satellite. 28911for the Indians. It has 12 C- and 12 Ku-band 28911transponders that will provide coverage over 28911the Indian sub-continent. 28912declared operational. It will provide high 28912resolution imagery of Earth's weather 28912activity, as well as measurements of Earth's 28912radiation balance. 28915they consisted of one Uragan and two improved 28915Uragan-M. 28916they consisted of one Uragan and two improved 28916Uragan-M. 28917they consisted of one Uragan and two improved 28917Uragan-M. 28922the first test vehicle for the future Galileo 28922Navigation Satellite System. This is a follow 28922on system to the USA GPS and the CIS Glonass 28922systems. Glonass operates at 19,100 km and a 2892264.8 degree inclination. GPS operates at 2892220,100 km and 55 degrees. GIOVE is at 23,600 28922km and 56 degrees. 28924East. From this location, it will be able to 28924communicate between California, USA and 28924Bangladesh; and Alaska to Australia and New 28924Zealand. The 20 Ku-band transponders have 28924been tailored to the long haul airline routes 28924over the Pacific. The 18 C-band transponders 28924will be used by cable programmers, internet 28924service providers, governments, education 28924institutions and others. 28928New Horizons left Earth at speeds nearing 2892858,000 kph. It will reach Jupiter in 2007 but 28928it will not get to Pluto until 2015. With 2892811.9 kg of plutonium, it will have electrical 28928power for the entire journey. Following the 28928Pluto encounter it will go into the Kuiper 28928asteroid belt to study other objects in 2016. 28931Satellite (ALOS). It carries a Synthetic 28931Aperture Radar (SAR), a 2.5 m resolution 28931mapping camera and a 10 m resolution near-IR 28931radiometer. 28935This satellite will add to the Dish network's 28935HDTV and interactive TV plus international 28935coverage. The satellite is expected to have a 2893515 year life span. 28937relay between aircraft and air traffic 28937controllers, GPS augmentation navigation for 28937aircraft, and transmit the location of A/C to 28937air traffic control. It will also have a 28937weather capability with visual and IR imagers 28937on board. 28939that will be able to look in the near and far 28939IR ranges. The helium is expected to last for 28939about 1.5 years. It will then have to rely on 28939mechanical coolers which will allow limited 28939observations in the near IR range for up to 28939five years. 28941This cubesat is supposed to work in orbit for 28941several months and then be manually disposed. 28941It carries amateur radio equipment as a 28941training tool for the students at the Tokyo 28941Institute of Technology. Before it's disposal 28941it will deploy a 91.4 m electrically charged 28941tether for a deorbit test. 28945Primarily a military communications satellite 28945but it might include some civilian access. It 28945can give some NATO support on the X-band 28945transponders. Also has Ka-band transponders 28945and will be positioned at 330 degrees East. 28946band transponders. Life expectancy is 15 yrs. 28946Operational location is 13 degrees East. 28996Soyuz carried three cosmonauts: Cmdr Pavel 28996Vinogradov, Engineer Jeffrey Williams and 28996Brazilian Marcos Pontes. Pontes will return 28996to Earth with crew 12 on 9 April. Docking was 28996accomplished to the Zarya port at 0419 GMT on 289961 April 2006. 29045platform located at 206 degrees East on the 29045Equator. It has S-, C- and Ku-band 29045transponders that will support businesses in 29045Asia for at least 12 years. 29047Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere 29047and Climate. The six satellites will study 29047the effects of atmosphere on GPS signals. 29048Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere 29048and Climate. The six satellites will study 29048the effects of atmosphere on GPS signals. 29049Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere 29049and Climate. The six satellites will study 29049the effects of atmosphere on GPS signals. 29050Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere 29050and Climate. The six satellites will study 29050the effects of atmosphere on GPS signals. 29051Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere 29051and Climate. The six satellites will study 29051the effects of atmosphere on GPS signals. 29052Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere 29052and Climate. The six satellites will study 29052the effects of atmosphere on GPS signals. 29055at 19.2 degrees East. The 32 Ku-band 29055transponders will be capable of transmitting 29055over 300 TV channels. 29079This was launched from a Mobile ICBM launcher 29079as a distant Earth probe according to TASS. 29079It has a .7 m resolution capability. It can 29079remain in orbit for six years. 29092experiments, land and agriculture surveys and 29092disaster monitoring. 29107and aerosols. 29108Pathfinder Satellite Observations. Part of a 29108two satellite launch to study cloud and 29108aerosol formation, evolvement and interaction 29108for scientists who study Earth's water cycle. 29155This is the first of a revitalized series of 29155weather observatories. It will be placed at 29155270 degrees East for testing and was named 29155GOES-N before it was launched & checked out. 29155It will be in a storage orbit initially. 29157was launched by the submarine K-84 and is the 291572nd satellite placed in orbit from a 29157Submarine. 29162service to Mexico and the rest of North and 29162Latin America. 29163transponders for telecom and TV in the Asia- 29163Pacific region. It will replace Thaicom-3. 29228deliver pictures at one meter resolution. It 29228has advanced communications capability that 29228improves its response time. 29230satellite that will support communications to 29230users in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, 29230Turkmenistan and parts of Russia. It has 12 29230Ku-band transponders and a life of 12 years. 29230AFSPC lists this as a CIS owner. 29236transponders and an expected life of 15 yrs. 29240is part of the Microsatellite Technology 29240Project that consists of three satellites. 29240AFSPC refers to them as 'USA' satellites and 29240will not release information on their Geo 29240orbits. 29241is part of the Microsatellite Technology 29241Project that consists of three satellites. 29241AFSPC refers to them as 'USA' satellites and 29241will not release information on their Geo 29241orbits. 29242experiment on small maneuvering boosters. The 29242total project consists of three satellites. 29242AFSPC refers to them as 'USA' satellites and 29242will not release information on their Geo 29242orbits. 292451625 GMT on 26 June. It was filled with 2,268 29245kg of propellant, oxygen, water, spare parts, 29245experiment hardware & life support equipment. 29247probably an EORSAT. 29249payload that is called by them L-22. 29252This was the first launch from the Yasny ICBM 29252complex near the city of Dombarovskiy. The 29252Genesis-1 spacecraft is a test of an 29252inflatable type of space station. This one 29252will inflate from 1.9 meters to 3.8 meters. 29260mission. 29268with a considerably improved high resolution 29268camera (1 meter). Color images will be on the 29268order of 4 meter resolution. The South Korean 29268imagery interpreters will now have a much 29268better view of what North Korea is doing. 29270built in Europe. The Solar panels will be 45 29270meters across. It will operate for 15 years 29270using 64 Ku-band transponders. This is three 29270times the capacity of previous Hot Birds. 29272service to Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and 29272Hawaii with 12 C- & 30 Ku-band transponders. 29272It is designed for at least a 15 year service 29272life. 29273will operate nine Super High Frequency [SHF] 29273and six Extremely High Frequency [EHF] 29273channels. They will allow the French military 29273and political authorities to communicate with 29273operating units deployed worldwide. It is to 29273be deployed at 355 degrees East. 29349The 24 Ku-band transponders are for civilian 29349use in the Asia-Pacific area. The 4 Ka-band 29349transponders and the 8 SHF channels will be 29349used by the military. It will be located at 29349113 degrees East and have a 15 year life. 29385take 215 kg of seeds into space and recover 29385them for planting. The Chinese have found 29385that seeds that have been flown in space are 29385more productive than those that have remained 29385on Earth. 29393This is the second successful launch of the 29393Japanese optical Intelligence gathering 29393system. The second version was lost in a 29393launch failure in late 2003. Because of that 29393failure, this optical mission was launched 29393by itself without the radar version - as had 29393been the choice in the first two attempts. 29393It is expected to be placed in a 484 X 460 km 29393orbit at about 97 degrees. 29398expected to be placed at 98 degrees East. It 29398will probably replace ZX-22. It is planned 29398for an eight year life. 29400docked with the ISS at 0521 GMT on 19 Sept. 29402film return mission. 29479optical telescope and an X-ray telescope. It 29479replaces Solar-A that decayed 12 Sept 2005. 29480be this mission. It is called a payload here 29480to ensure knowledge of another payload. 29480HIT-SAT stands for Hokkaido Institute of 29480Technology. They built this cubesat. 29481be this mission. It is called a payload here 29481to ensure knowledge of another payload. 29481This is a government sponsored Solar Sail 29481experiment.