A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including...

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly...

The Plymouth Satellite is a mid-size automobile introduced in the 1965 model year as the top trim model in Plymouth's "B" platform Belvedere line. Available...

Look up Satellite, satellite, or satellites in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed...

Odin is a Swedish satellite working in two disciplines: astrophysics and aeronomy. It was named after Odin of Norse mythology. Within the field of astrophysics...

A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication...

Satellite navigation (satnav) or satellite positioning is the use of satellites for navigation or geopositioning. A global navigation satellite system...

Look up satellite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up branch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A satellite campus, branch campus, or regional...

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites...

communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary...

another natural satellite). Natural satellites are colloquially referred to as moons, by analogy with the Moon, Earth's natural satellite. In English, the...

Satellite tracker or satellite tracking may refer to: GPS tracking unit, that uses satellite navigation Satellite watching, hobby of tracking artificial...

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is an Earth observation satellite (EOS) equipped with dual-frequency synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) jointly...

reconnaissance satellite or intelligence satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications...

Satellite delay is the noticeable latency due to the limited speed of light, when sending data to and from satellites, especially distant geosynchronous...

Aryabhata was India's first satellite, named after the astronomer of the same name. It was launched on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar, a Soviet rocket...

Satellite flare, also known as satellite glint, is a brief and bright "flare" in visibility of an satellite. It is caused by the temporary direct reflection...

A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control...

small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under 1,200 kg (2,600 lb). While all such satellites can...

mapping platform and consumer application developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views...

A satellite phone (also called a satellite telephone or satphone) is a type of mobile phone that connects to the public switched telephone network through...

Riruta, also known as Riruta Satellite, is a settlement in the Dagoretti area of Nairobi. It is approximately 9.4 kilometres (5.8 mi) west of the central...

A quasi-satellite is an object in a specific type of co-orbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet (or dwarf planet) where the object...

Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Babcock International on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD)...

briefly captured by telescopes. All together, Jupiter's moons form a satellite system, colloquially referred to as the Jovian system. The most massive...

Satcom, a portmanteau of satellite communications, was a brand of artificial geo-stationary communications satellites originally developed and operated...

Satellite Football Club is a Guinean football club whose team plays in the Ligue 1 Pro. Their home games are played at the 25,000-capacity Stade du 28...

geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES, a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf...

A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working together as a system. Unlike a single satellite, a constellation can provide permanent...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta...

A satellite tornado is a tornado that revolves around a larger, primary tornado and interacts with the same mesocyclone. Satellite tornadoes occur apart...

footprint of a communications satellite is the ground area that its transponders offer coverage, and determines the satellite dish diameter required to receive...

The Satellite Circuit was a temporary cycling venue constructed for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. This venue hosted the road cycling individual...

Satellite geodesy is geodesy by means of artificial satellites—the measurement of the form and dimensions of Earth, the location of objects on its surface...

A satellite village is a term for one or more settlements that have arisen within the outskirts of a larger one. Normally people would live in a satellite...

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar satellite was a NASA science spacecraft designed to study the polar magnetosphere and aurorae. It was launched...

A satellite city or satellite town is a smaller municipality or settlement that is part of (or on the edge of) a larger metropolitan area and serves as...

This is a list of the satellites operated by Optus, an Australian telecommunications company. The satellite communications facility is located at Belrose...

The Coriolis satellite is a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Earth and space observation satellite launched from...

began launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of June 2026[update], the network consisted of approximately 10,413 satellites (10,397 operational) in...

geosynchronous satellite is a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, with an orbital period the same as the Earth's rotation period. Such a satellite returns to...

Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service. The satellite's...

the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, together with two other satellites. Munin was developed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in cooperation...

(misidentified as Satellite and Missile Observation System) or SAMOS-E program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United...

The CORONA program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate...

The Anik satellites are a series of geostationary communications satellites launched for Telesat Canada for television, voice and data in Canada and other...

Satellite watching or satellite spotting is a hobby which consists of the observation and tracking of artificial satellites that are orbiting Earth. People...

The Satellite Express was a college duo composed of Willie "The Satellite" Totten and Jerry "World" Rice (because there "wasn't a pass in the world that...

Vela was the name of a group of reconnaissance satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United States to detect nuclear detonations...

build, develop, launch and operate the satellites. All five satellites were identical to each other. The satellites from Ghana (GhanaSat-1) and Bangladesh...

also known as Mentor or Advanced Orion, is a class of United States spy satellites that collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) from space. Operated by the...

"Satellite of Love" is a song by American musician Lou Reed. It is the second single from his 1972 album Transformer. At the time of its release, it achieved...

Look up satellite town in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Satellite Town or Satellite City may refer to: Satellite city, a concept of urban planning...

The Satellite Pro (also formerly the Satellite) is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed and manufactured by Dynabook Inc. of Japan, which...

Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) was a German satellite launched July 15, 2000 from Plesetsk, Russia and was used for atmospheric and ionospheric...

A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the...

Satellite gravimetry is the study of Earth's gravity field using satellites. It focuses on how changes in the distribution of snow, ice, and the Earth's...

In computing, Red Hat Satellite is a systems-management product by the company “Red Hat”. It allows system administrators to deploy and manage Red Hat...

The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of 384,399 kilometers (238,854 mi), a distance roughly...

(multicast) — in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable transmission formats — as well as video on demand services...

Captain Satellite was an afternoon TV program on KTVU-2 in Oakland, California. Like many kids' shows of this period, it took advantage of the interest...

consisted of sensors to determine the spacecraft's attitude. Cameras on the satellite will be used to verify the data returned by the attitude sensors. Originally...

Satellite DNA, also known as highly repetitive DNA, consists of very large arrays of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA. Satellite DNA is the main component...

Trailblazer was a technology demonstration satellite, which was to have been operated by the United States Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency. It...

A satellite bus (or spacecraft bus) is the main body and structural component of a satellite or spacecraft, in which the payload and all scientific instruments...

The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly noted in entertainment industry journals and blogs....

The People's Satellite (Ukrainian: Народний супутник, romanized: Narodnyy suputnyk) is an ICEYE satellite acquired by the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation...

FSK Satellite was an Italian hip-hop ensemble active from 2017 to 2021. FSK Satellite was formed in 2017 in Genoa, by Chiello, Taxi B, and Sapobully,...

Satellite airfields are landing strips not regarded as main airfields as such but must be taken as a substitute in one way to a larger nearby airfield...

Petey (or 3CS-3) was a satellite, part of Three Corner Satellite (3CS) project, a three satellite (Sparkie, Ralphie and Petey) student research project...

Satellite Spies was a New Zealand band formed in 1984 by Deane Sutherland and Mark Loveys. The group enjoyed some success with "Destiny in Motion" (1985)...

The Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP) is a proposed (as of 2014[update]) space science experiment to test the equivalence principle of...

tallest in the Solar System. Twenty-five of the confirmed moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial...

A balloon satellite, sometimes referred to as a "satelloon", is a satellite inflated with gas after it has been put into orbit. The first flying body...

Core & Satellite Portfolio Management is an investment strategy that incorporates traditional fixed-income and equity-based securities (i.e., index funds...

"Sleeping Satellite" is a song by British singer-songwriter Tasmin Archer. It was released on 1 September 1992 by EMI Records as the first single from...

Electra is a satellite development project initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the first partnership project under its ARTES-33 programme...

A satellite truck or SNG truck is a mobile communications satellite ground station mounted on a truck chassis as a platform. Employed in remote television...

Modular Optimized Satellite") is a series of Israeli communications satellites operated by Israel-based Spacecom. All AMOS satellites were developed by...

communications satellites, operated by the United States satellite communications company Orbcomm. As of May 2025[update], 62 such satellites have orbited...

a torus, or a satellite knot. The class of satellite knots include composite knots, cable knots, and Whitehead doubles. A satellite link is one that...

The Himawari (ひまわり; 'sunflower') geostationary satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), support weather forecasting, tropical cyclone...

 'Zenith', IPA: [zʲɪˈnʲit]) was a series of military photoreconnaissance satellites launched by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1994. To conceal their nature...

October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017. Tim Folger, "New moon – Russian satellite acts as a mirror to light remote areas", Discover, Jan, 1994 (web version...

Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national scientific research satellite operated by NASA in a Sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth. It takes simultaneous...

GS Group (before 2013 known as General Satellite) is the largest Russian developer and producer of set-top boxes for television. Since 1991 the company...

PICASSO (Pico-Satellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations) was a CubeSat mission for technology demonstration in atmospheric science, operated...

From Satellite is an alternative rock band from Ventura, California. They have gained most of their recognition from touring with Hoobastank and Alien...

reconnaissance satellite program of the People's Republic of China. To date, the Tianyan satellite program has launched one satellite from the Yizheng...

messages and a telemetry data packet in AX25 protocol. The UNOSAT scientific satellite had the following characteristics: UNOSAT Nanosatellite characteristics:...

also spelled Sorayya, is an Iranian remote sensing satellite of the SRI series of research satellites built by the Iranian Space Research Center and sent...

Satellite refuelling is the operation of replenishing on board propellants and other consumables in satellites in orbit, e.g. in geostationary orbit around...

Etalon-1 and Etalon-2 are geodetic satellites. They are designed to determine, with high accuracy, terrestrial reference frame and Earth rotation parameters...

Satellite Shankar is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action drama film written and directed by Irfan Kamal. The film starring Sooraj Pancholi and Megha Akash...

Satellite Reign is a 2015 cyberpunk real-time tactics video game developed and published by 5 Lives Studios. The game was released for Windows, macOS...

Satellite system may refer to: Satellite system (astronomy), a collection of objects orbiting around a planetary mass object Satellite constellation, a...

family of satellites designed, launched and tested by Hughes Space and Communications (now part of Boeing Satellite Systems) for British Satellite Broadcasting...

The Satellite Sisters is an internet-based podcast that originated as a syndicated radio program broadcast on Public Radio International and ABC News...

The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS; Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; pinyin: běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned...

Billy Satellite was an American rock band based in Oakland, California. They are perhaps best known for composing and performing "I Wanna Go Back," which...

or A-1 (initially conceptualized as FR.2 or FR-2) is the first French satellite. It was launched on 26 November 1965 by a Diamant A rocket from the CIEES...

of a series of Turkish communications satellites operated or projected by the state-owned Türksat A.Ş. Satellite telecommunication is provided by the Gölbaşı...

Satellite Snowfield (71°28′S 69°45′W / 71.467°S 69.750°W / -71.467; -69.750) is a snowfield at the southeast side of the Walton Mountains situated...

Tianhui (天绘) is a military Chinese series of Earth observation satellites. Gunter Krebs. "Tianhui 1-01, 1-02, 1-03, 1-04 (TH 1-01, 1-02, 1-03, 1-04)"....

LARES (Laser Relativity Satellite) is a passive satellite system of the Italian Space Agency. LARES 1 was launched into orbit on 13 February 2012 at 10:00:00...

SS Satellite was the first tender owned by Cunard Line, operated on the river Mersey between 1848 and 1902. Satellite was a ship's tender owned by Cunard...

the launch of Tsikada, a Russian navigation satellite and FAISAT, a United States communications satellite. It carried an Energetic Neutral Atom imager...

Satellite babies (also called Satellite children) refer to immigrants’ children who are temporarily sent back to their home country by their parents to...

A zombie satellite is a satellite that begins communicating again after an extended period of inactivity. It is a type of space debris, which describes...

seen if he had seen any satellites besides Titania and Oberon, did not correspond to any of Herschel's four additional satellites in orbital characteristics...

communications satellite system. The first satellite Tiantong-1-01 was launched on 6 August 2016. The plan to develop mobile communication satellite system in...

Satellite insurance is a specialized branch of aviation insurance in which, as of 2000, about 20 insurers worldwide participate directly. Others participate...

SIMBA (Sun-earth IMBAlance) was a climatology satellite mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the form of a 3U CubeSat. Its goal was to help quantify...

The Khayyam satellite (Persian: خیام) is an Iranian high-resolution imaging satellite that was successfully sent into low Earth orbit on 9 August 2022...

Satellite City is a Welsh sitcom, originally a radio show on BBC Radio Wales in 1994 and later a TV version made by BBC Wales and first broadcast in 1996...

stations. The scope of this list is limited to channels broadcast via cable, satellite or terrestrial providers only and does not include channels streamed exclusively...

Satellite is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Jeff Winner, starring Karl Geary, Stéphanie Szostak, Larry Fessenden, Christina Kirk and...

Satellites can be divided into two major groups: satellite viruses and satellite nucleic acids. Satellite viruses, which are most commonly associated with...

Black Satellite is an American rock band from New York City, New York, led by vocalist Larissa Vale and guitarist Kyle Hawken Following the release of...

Satellite geolocation is the process of locating the origin of a signal appearing on a satellite communication channel. Typically, this process is used...

Satellite Chemical Co Ltd (STL) (Chinese: 卫星化学), formerly known as Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co Ltd (Chinese: 浙江卫星石化), formerly known as Zhejiang...

Satellite Party was an alternative rock band formed by Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell following the break-up of Jane's Addiction in 2004. Other...

is a series of satellites launched by ISRO. The Rohini series consisted of four satellites, each of which was launched by the Satellite Launch Vehicle...

The Ohsumi ( or Ōsumi, おおすみ) satellite, Japan’s first artificial satellite, was launched on February 11, 1970, at 04:25 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)...

a Britain's first Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellite operated by United Kingdom Space Command. It was launched on 16 August...

Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite. Launched on December 18,1958, SCORE provided the first broadcast of a...

Молния, IPA: [ˈmolnʲɪjə] , "Lightning") series satellites were military and communications satellites launched by the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1991,...

Via Satellite is a 1998 New Zealand film directed by Anthony McCarten based on his play of the same name. After playing at the Cannes Festival market...

borne the name HMS Satellite: HMS Satellite (1806) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806. She foundered in 1810. HMS Satellite (1812) was an 18-gun...

about 30 to 40 per year, not including launches for the planned SpaceX satellite constellation Starlink. The actual launch rate increased by 17% from 18...

PRSC-EO1 (Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite - Earth Observation 1) is an Electro-Optical Satellite developed by Pakistan's Space Agency (SUPARCO). It was...

In motorsport, a satellite team is a team related to a larger, better-funded team (which may be referred to as the factory team), which may involve ownership...

Uhuru was the first satellite launched specifically for the purpose of X-ray astronomy. It was also known as the X-ray Explorer Satellite, SAS-A (for Small...

Hermes was an American satellite which was to have been operated by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. Intended to perform technology demonstration...

Tango (Twin ANthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Observers) is a future twin satellite mission under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) for monitoring...

Experiment (LACE), also referred to as LOSAT-L and USA-51, was a military satellite developed by the Naval Research Laboratory for the United States' Strategic...

temporary satellite is an object which has been captured by the gravitational field of a planet and thus has become the planet's natural satellite, but, unlike...

mission by the European Space Agency (ESA). The primary payload of the satellite is a passive reflectometer for GNSS reflectometry measuring sea state...

A satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy...

Satellite Internet access is Internet access provided through communication satellites; if it can sustain high speeds, it is termed satellite broadband...

A satellite dispenser is a space tug usually released from the upper stage (sometimes called kick stage) of a rocket and designed to fly small secondary...

USS Satellite is a name used more than once by the United States Navy: USS Satellite (1854), an American Civil War tugboat commissioned at the New York...

military satellites to LEO, polar, and geosynchronous orbits. The heaviest payload launched on Falcon is a batch of 24 Starlink V2-Mini satellites weighing...

Satellite chromosomes or SAT-chromosomes are chromosomes that contain secondary constrictions. They are observed in acrocentric chromosomes. In addition...

The European Broadcasting Service (EBS) (formerly Europe by Satellite) is the TV information service of the European Union which includes 2 TV channels:...

Satellite formation flying is the coordination of multiple satellites to accomplish the objective of one larger, usually more expensive, satellite. Coordinating...

The Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory claims that a spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin is in near-polar orbit of the Earth, and that NASA is...

satellites launched by the United States during the 1990s to replace the Jumpseat satellites. Speculated to weigh 5,200 kg, three of these satellites...

The Iridium satellite constellation provides L band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones, satellite messenger communication devices...

Harmony is a European Earth observing satellite mission projected to launch in 2029 or 2030. The mission concept, belonging to the ESA's FutureEO programme...

A satellite modem or satmodem is a modem used to establish data transfers using a communications satellite as a relay. A satellite modem's main function...

reconnaissance satellites, derived from the Resurs DK class of remote sensing satellite, in turn derived from the Soviet Yantar reconnaissance satellites. The satellites...

spacecraft are weather observation satellites launched by the Soviet Union and Russia since the Cold War. The Meteor satellite series was initially developed...

A satellite router is an Indoor Unit (IDU) that contains a modulator and a demodulator and is one of the essential components of a VSAT. Modern VSAT systems...

known as ASTRO-H and New X-ray Telescope (NeXT), was an X-ray astronomy satellite commissioned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for studying...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. is an Israeli public company (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: GILT; NASDAQ: GILT). It provides satellite-based broadband communications...

Explorer program satellite. It was launched on 12 January 2003 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II with the larger satellite ICESat, and had...

provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. The company was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and...

telecommunications, and the first satellite to be placed in this kind of orbit was launched in 1963. Communications satellites are often placed in a geostationary...

Sirius was a constellation of communications satellites operated at 5.0° East in geostationary orbit (GEO) by NSAB (later SES Sirius, and now a non-autonomous...

Biomass is an Earth observing satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) launched in 2025. The mission is intended to provide the first comprehensive...

Urbana-Champaign. The satellite was lost in the failure of the Dnepr launch on 26 July 2006. Completed in April 2005 as a part of the Illinois Tiny Satellite Initiative...

USA-280 (codenamed "Zuma") was a classified United States government satellite that was launched by SpaceX on 8 January 2018, on the 47th flight of the...

destruction of satellites. This has been done as a test of anti-satellite or anti-ballistic missile technology, or to prevent a sensitive satellite from being...

Strictly speaking, a satellite collision is when two satellites collide while in orbit around a third, much larger body, such as a planet or moon. This...

constellation of imaging, communications and remote sensing satellites. It operates the GAGAN and IRNSS satellite navigation systems. It has sent three missions to...

OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) is a traditional designation given to many amateur radio satellites. Only satellites that enter or leave...

radio satellite is an artificial satellite built and used by amateur radio operators. It forms part of the Amateur-satellite service. These satellites use...

(Multiple-Path Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications) prototype communications relay satellite weighing approximately 49 kg (108 lb) launched from Vandenberg Air Force...

Aqua (EOS PM-1) is a NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the precipitation, evaporation, and cycling of water. It is...

demonstrate Saudi abilities to manufacturer and operate satellites, as part of Vision 2030. The Satellite was manufactured by the National Industrial Development...

Satellite Young (サテライトヤング, Sateraito Yangu) is a Japanese synthwave band founded by Emi Kusano and BelleMaison Sekine in 2013. Their music and style are...

Satellite Sky is the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death. The album, which was almost...

-II were two satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation that formed India's first low-Earth orbit Earth observation satellite. They collected...

The Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) was launched on 23 February 1999 carrying nine payloads for research and development missions...

Sapphire is a Canadian space surveillance satellite which was launched in 2013. Sapphire was commissioned and integrated by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates...

utilizing multiple satellites to overcome the limitations of observing the fine structure of space weather using a single satellite. The satellite group flies...

Sparkie (or 3CS-1) was a satellite, part of the Three Corner Satellite (3CS) project, a three satellite (Sparkie, Ralphie and Petey) student research project...

a Boeing model 702 satellite built by the Boeing Satellite Development Center. Its current name was adopted in 2017. This satellite is functionally identical...

carefully tracked since they present a collision risk to the many LEO satellites. The only human spaceflights beyond LEO were the lunar missions of the...

Lacrosse or Onyx was a series of terrestrial radar imaging reconnaissance satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). While...

ˈspʊtnɪk/, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), often referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical...

Satellite Rides is the fifth studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released in the second quarter of 2001 (see 2001 in music). Though...

(FLEX) is a planned mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch a satellite to monitor the global steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence in terrestrial...

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European...

(National Advanced Optical System) is a high-resolution Earth observation satellite developed by OHB Italia for the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence as part...

Research Satellite Heuristic International Networking Experiment) series of three (later, a fourth one was also launched) artificial satellites were student...

and Technology") was an experimental Iranian Earth observation satellite. The satellite carried a camera for taking higher resolution imagery of Earth...

Magnum was a class of SIGINT spy satellites reportedly operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the United States Central Intelligence...

exploited for satellite navigation such as in Transit and DORIS. Doppler also needs to be compensated in satellite communication. Fast moving satellites can have...

Huanjing (Chinese: 环境) satellites for disaster and environmental monitoring ("huanjing" is Chinese for "environment"). The satellites will be capable of visible...

SpaceX's Starlink subsidiary creating purpose-built low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites designed to provide new military space capabilities to U.S. and allied...

Artificial satellites are human-made spacecraft placed into orbit around Earth or another celestial body. They are distinct from natural satellites such as...

Philippine satellites were operated by private companies. The first Filipino-owned satellite is Agila-1, a satellite acquired in 1996 by Mabuhay Satellite Corporation...

GPS satellite blocks are the various production generations of the Global Positioning System (GPS) used for satellite navigation. The first satellite in...

The Aist (Russian: Аист, meaning "Stork") satellites are a series of Russian microsatellites developed primarily by students, postgraduates, and researchers...

"lily"), also known as Broadcasting Satellite or BS, was a series of Japanese direct broadcast satellites. The first satellite of this series, called BSE or...

"Satellite Skin" is a single released by indie rock band Modest Mouse. It is the first single from their EP, No One's First and You're Next. The song...

'resources') is a series of remote sensing satellites operated by the People's Republic of China. Several Ziyuan satellites are operated jointly with Brazil's...

Satellite Island may refer to: Satellite Island (Tasmania), Australia Satellite Island (Washington), USA This disambiguation page lists articles about...

Badr was a series of satellites operated by Pakistan. The first satellite, Badr-1, was launched in July 1990. It was the first SUPARCO-engineered object...

A satellite ground track or satellite ground trace is the path on the surface of a planet directly below a satellite's trajectory. It is also known as...

Artemis II mission, and was the only one from a Latin American country. The satellite was developed by the National Space Activities Commission (CONAE), the...

Lewis was an American satellite which was to have been operated by NASA as part of the Small Satellite Technology Initiative. It carried two experimental...

Cosmic Radiation Satellite (CORSA, also CORSA-A) was a Japanese space telescope. It was supposed to be Japan's first X-ray astronomy satellite but was lost...

1 April 2026 as a rideshare payload on NASA's Artemis II mission. The satellite was designed to test lunar rover electronics in deep space, including...

(Security And cryptoGrAphic) is a future European technology demonstration satellite for in-orbit demonstration of space-based quantum key distribution (QKD)...

Technology Satellites are satellite demonstrations of new technologies related to satellite navigation, especially for next-generation GPS satellites. Navigation...

satellite in very low Earth orbit. It is the first satellite developed and operated by the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), as previous Polish satellites...

from Dombarovskiy at 06:37 UTC on 1 October 2008, by a Dnepr rocket. The satellite was initially planned for a 2007 launch using the space vehicle Rokot...

A Satellite contribution link or service is a means to transport video programming by a satellite link from a remote source (such as an outside broadcast...

Orba, also known as X-2, was intended to be the first satellite launched by a British rocket. It was launched at 00:34 GMT on 2 September 1970, atop a...

dormant communications satellite launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in May, 2002 to provide mainly Spanish language satellite television programs...

On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites—the active commercial Iridium 33 and the derelict Russian military Kosmos 2251—accidentally collided...

Vortex, previously known as Chalet, was a class of spy satellite operated by the United States during the 1980s and 1990s to collect signals intelligence...

Satellite crop monitoring is the technology which facilitates real-time crop vegetation index monitoring via spectral analysis of high resolution satellite...

Blackjack is a constellation of small American surveillance satellites that started to be launched in 2023. The Blackjack program was started by DARPA...

(France) will provide the satellite's GNSS receiver and Planetek (Italy) will develop the mission operations center. The satellite's design is based on Hemeria's...

Aquacade, previously designated Rhyolite, was a class of SIGINT spy satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office for the United States Central...

The Planet Satellite was a British light aircraft of the late 1940s. Designed to exploit new technology, the aircraft was abandoned after two crashes...

scientific satellite. Launched on 8 November 1969 it studied the Van Allen belts, solar particles, and aurorae. The construction of the satellite was carried...

national programs; "Connectivity", which operates Starlink, a communications satellite company; and "Artificial intelligence", which operates Grok, X, and data...

Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII) was an X-ray astronomy satellite developed jointly by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at JAXA and NASA's Goddard...

observation satellites designed to detect and measure emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly methane and carbon dioxide. Tanager-1 is the first satellite deployed...

A Dyson–Harrop satellite is a hypothetical megastructure intended for power generation using the solar wind. It is inspired by the Dyson sphere, but much...

Earth Resources Observation Satellite (EROS) is a series of Israeli commercial Earth observation satellites, designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft...

SPOT (French: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, lit. "Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical Earth observation...

Wivern (Wind Velocity Radar Nephoscope) is a future Earth observation satellite under development by the European Space Agency (ESA). Wivern will be the...

Sirius Satellite Radio was a satellite radio (SDARS) service that operated in the United States and Canada. Sirius launched in 2002, and primarily competed...

A military satellite is an artificial satellite used for a military purpose. The most common missions are intelligence gathering, navigation and military...

Agila is a communications satellite built by Astranis Space Technologies and operated by Orbits Corporation which is planned to serve the Philippines...

The Glory satellite was a 2011 failed NASA satellite mission that was to have collected data on the chemical, micro-physical and optical properties—and...

occurring some time after Neptune formed a satellite system, was a catastrophic event for Neptune's original satellites, disrupting their orbits so that they...

Palestine Satellite Channel, widely and formally known as Palestine TV or Palestinian Authority TV and its companion radio station, Voice of Palestine...

 'Light') is a class of Iranian military Earth-imaging CubeSat. Three Noor satellites have been launched from the Shahroud Space Center in Shahrud Desert in...

list of satellites of Turkey. Large Communications Satellites Sahin, Tuba (7 April 2021). "Turkey to launch Turksat 5B communications satellite in Q4"...

A satellite navigation device, also called a satnav device or GPS/GNSS device, uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or other global navigation...

Satellite Syndicated Systems, Inc. (SSS) was a company founded in 1978 as a division of Southern Satellite Systems, Inc., dedicated to the exploration...

T12, formerly known as D12, is a Boeing model 702 satellite built by the Boeing Satellite Development Center. It was launched on December 29, 2009 and...

The Satellite System for Terrestrial Observation, Sistema Satelital para Observación de la Tierra (SSOT), also known as FASat-Charlie, is a Chilean satellite...

Satellite of Earth may refer to: Moon, the natural satellite of Earth Artificial satellites orbiting the Earth This disambiguation page lists articles...

Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV) was a small-lift launch vehicle five-stage solid-fuel rocket developed by ISRO to place 150 kg satellites into LEO...

The Sentinel satellites are a family of Earth observation satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Copernicus Programme of the...

Coconut is a 1U CubeSat developed by the Arizona State University Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory (SDSL) that was launched into low Earth orbit by the International...

Astro-Rivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero) was an X-ray and gamma ray astronomical satellite of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Launched in 2007, it de-orbited in...

Rohini Satellite 1 or RS-1 is the first satellite successfully launched by India using indigenously developed rockets. After the launch on 18 July 1980...

Satellite Stories was a Finnish indie pop band from Oulu, formed in 2008. Satellite Stories is the most well known Finnish indie band in Europe. The band...

Leo, is a subsidiary of Amazon established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation providing low-latency broadband connectivity. The...

trajectory of a planet around a star, a natural satellite around a planet, or an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a...

observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used...

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated...

observation satellite or Earth remote sensing satellite is a satellite used or designed for Earth observation (EO) from orbit, including spy satellites and similar...

industry. Yamal and Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC)'s Ekspress constellation are the only two national satellite operators in Russia. During...

The Satellite (67°51′S 61°7′E / 67.850°S 61.117°E / -67.850; 61.117) is a small rock peak rising to 1,100 m, protruding slightly above the ice sheet...

MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (formerly Binariang Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd.) is a Malaysian communications satellite operator that owns and operates...

developed by the firm SatRevolution that was Poland's first fully commercial satellite. Światowid's primary payload was an experimental earth observation system...

Meridian (Russian: Меридиан) is a family of telecommunications satellites for civil and military use developed by Russia in the 2000s, placed in a Molniya...

is a German national communications satellite launched in 2023 to demonstrate and validate advanced satellite communication technologies in geostationary...

One Satellite (Chinese: 两弹一星; pinyin: liǎng dàn, yī xīng) is a retronym for the early nuclear weapon, ballistic missile, and artificial satellite development...

APT Satellite Holdings Limited is a Bermuda-incorporated holding company. Its Hong Kong-incorporated subsidiary APT Satellite Co., Ltd. is the operator...

Eupsilia transversa, the satellite, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is distributed...

China Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. known as China Satcom is a Chinese aerospace company that provides services via satellites. The company was a...

broadband satellite Internet services in low Earth orbit (LEO). The company has offices in Paris (France), London (UK) and Virginia (US), and satellite manufacturing...

RAdioCommunication Utilisant un SatellitE; English: Satellite-based radio communication system) is a series of French military communications satellite constellations...

Chinese experimental satellite program consisting of a variety of test satellites. Given the classified nature of the satellites, Chinese government statements...

observation and reconnaissance satellite launched on 22 February 2018. It is Spain's first spy satellite. The satellite is operated by Hisdesat. Paz was...

character in the ABC comedy drama Eli Stone, for which he received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor. This was followed by another starring...

debris over time. This proliferation of debris poses significant risks to satellites, space missions, and the International Space Station, potentially rendering...

"Cecilia and the Satellite" is a song by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, written by James Flannigan, Anders Grahn, and Andrew McMahon. It released as...

The Pléiades is a satellite constellation of very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites. First two satellites, Pléiades-1A and Pléiades-1B,...

The Global Navigation Satellite System (Russian: Глобальная навигационная спутниковая система, romanized: Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema)...

जुगनू), is an Indian technology demonstration and remote sensing CubeSat satellite which was operated by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Built...

Satellite Collective is a non-profit, multi-medium artist collective based in New York City and led by Kevin Draper. Functioning as an “arts incubator”...

Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes. Although no ASAT system...

Inter-satellite service, also known as inter-satellite radiocommunication service or inter-satellite link (ISL), as defined by Article 1.22 of the International...

Aura (EOS CH-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate...

Fixed-satellite service (FSS, or fixed-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to article 1.21 of the International Telecommunication Union's...

The Satellite-Protection Project is an Indian governmental program that aims to protect India's orbiting satellites, and space assets from foreign spacecraft...

Satellite Sam is a creator-owned American comic book series by Matt Fraction and American artist Howard Chaykin distributed by Image Comics starting in...

code name for a class of highly elliptical orbit SIGINT reconnaissance satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office for the United States Air...

Fajr (Persian: فجر, meaning "dawn") is an Iranian satellite which was launched on 2 February 2015. Fajr had a mass of 52 kg and was equipped with an optical...

Air Satellite was an airline based in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada. It operated scheduled, charter passenger and cargo services, as well as supplying aviation...

A satellite internet constellation is a constellation of artificial satellites providing satellite internet service. In particular, the term has come to...

of Malacca and Andaman Sea. Analysis of satellite communications between the aircraft and Inmarsat's satellite communications network concluded that the...

given to a series of U.S. intelligence satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. The POPPY satellites recorded electronic signals intelligence...

IPA: [ˈkosməs], meaning '(outer) space') is a designation given to many satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia. Kosmos 1, the first...

Satellite Kite is the debut album by the Portland, Oregon-based experimental hip hop trio Beautiful Eulogy, released through Humble Beast Records in both...

problem that had plagued many of the early photo-intelligence satellites. Quill satellites were based around the Lockheed RM-81 Agena-D, which also served...

seven United States spy satellites launched between 1968 and 1977. Also known by its program number AFP-827, the satellites were developed with the participation...

Communications Research Advanced Technology Satellite is a Japanese small satellite launched in 2014. The satellite is purely a technology demonstrator designed...

The Satellite Catalog Number (SATCAT), also known as NORAD Catalog Number, NORAD ID, USSPACECOM object number, is a sequential five-digit number assigned...

Ørsted is an Earth science satellite launched in 1999 to study the Earth's geomagnetic field. It is Denmark's first satellite, named after Hans Christian...

Ganymede is a natural satellite of Jupiter and is the largest and most massive moon in the Solar System. Like Saturn's largest moon, Titan, it is larger...

Satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) is the calculation of shallow water depth from active or passive satellite imaging sensors. The technology requires...

lit. Ray) Satellite Data Relay Network (SDRN), also referred to as Altair and Gelios, is a series of geosynchronous Russian relay satellites, used to transmit...

As of 24 April 2026[update], 83 Global Positioning System navigation satellites have been built: 31 are launched and operational, 1 is undergoing commissioning...

Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited is a company under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy...

Environmental Satellite (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data...

(previously Soviet) military communications satellite constellation operating in low Earth orbit. These satellites operate as mailboxes ("store-and-forward"):...

Bilibili Video Satellite was launched by Long March 11 on Yellow Sea waters on 15 September 2020. It was China's first custom-made satellite by Chinese internet...

This is a list of satellites developed by Bulgaria. Serafimov, K.; Chapkanov, S.; Gogoshev, M.; Kutiev, I.; Gousheva, M.; Ivanova, T.; Petkov, N.; Samardjiev...

Zircon was the codename for a British signals intelligence satellite, designed to intercept radio and other signals from the USSR, Europe and other areas...

Satellite radio system (also: satellite system) is – according to article 1.111 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations...

Hayato, known before launch as KSAT, or the Kagoshima Satellite, is a Japanese satellite which was launched on 20 May 2010. It is a student-built spacecraft...

(short for Density And Scale Height) were a pair of 2.5 meter balloon satellites launched in 1963. They were designed to measure air density at very high...

Retrieved October 12, 2023. "Nominees & Winners – Satellite™ Awards 2004 (8th Annual Satellite™ Awards)". Satellite Awards. Archived from the original on February...

The Bangladesh Satellite-1 (BS-1) is the first Bangladeshi geostationary communications and broadcasting satellite. It was manufactured by Thales Alenia...

RAIKO (Japanese: 雷鼓, literally thunder drum) is a Japanese satellite which was built and operated by Tohoku and Wakayama Universities. A two-unit CubeSat...

list of past and present satellites of the BeiDou/Compass navigation satellite system. As of December 2023[update], 44 satellites are operational: 7 in geostationary...

scientific satellite to study the Van Allen belts. It was developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of JAXA. The satellite was named...

known as satellite cells, muscle stem cells or MuSCs, are small multipotent cells with very little cytoplasm found in mature muscle. Satellite cells are...

Voyager probes discovered three more inner satellites in 1979, so Europa is now counted as Jupiter's sixth satellite, though it is still referred to as Jupiter...

service is distributing virtual multichannel video programming as well as satellite services for consumers and businesses in the United States and Puerto...

communications satellite that was launched by a Proton-M / Briz-M launch vehicle at 02:27:32 UTC on 3 February 2005. The 4,979 kg (10,977 lb) satellite to provide...

Svalbard Satellite Station (Norwegian: Svalbard satellittstasjon) or SvalSat is a satellite ground station located on Platåberget near Longyearbyen in...

Titan was the first known moon of Saturn and the sixth known planetary satellite (after Earth's moon and the four Galilean moons of Jupiter). Titan orbits...

Irazú was the first Costa Rican satellite to be launched into space. The nanosatellite was launched into space on 2 April 2018, on board a Falcon 9 rocket...

Tokyo University of Science from a student design concept in 2004. The satellite was designed to demonstrate new technologies for rapid attitude control...

Mobile-satellite service (MSS, or mobile-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to Article 1.25 of the International Telecommunication Union's...

AKARI (ASTRO-F) was an infrared astronomy satellite developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, in cooperation with institutes of Europe and Korea...

海洋; pinyin: Hǎiyáng; lit. 'ocean') is a series of marine remote sensing satellites developed and operated by the People's Republic of China since 2002. The...

via satellite observation. Air measurements are used as the standard measurement because of persistent issues with unreliable ground and satellite readings...

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of...

The Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) is a technology demonstrator weather satellite built by consortium led by OHB Sweden, a satellite provider and subsidiary...

The shuttle pallet satellite was a satellite bus designed to be deployed and then retrieved for return to Earth on NASA's Space Shuttle. It carried a...

(Constellation), a full operational constellation of four to six small satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) enabling a continuous auroral oval monitoring...

constellation, a system of 80 satellites: 66 are active satellites and the remaining fourteen function as in-orbit spares. Iridium Satellites are used for worldwide...

Mabuhay Satellite Corporation (MSC) was a Filipino aerospace corporation responsible for operating communication satellites and before 2009, the only...

The Al-Ta'ir (Arabic: الطائر) satellite was an Iraqi small experimental satellite program designed for conducting communication and rangefinding. It started...

HS-1 (Hyperspectral imaging Satellite) is Pakistan's indigenous hyperspectral earth observation satellite, conceptualized and developed by the Space and...

The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) (Japanese: 準天頂衛星システム, Hepburn: juntenchō eisei shisutemu), also known as Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a regional...

Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large radiocommunication site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, Britain...

index 14F133, is a series of Earth imaging or military reconnaissance satellites developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya for the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces...

The INSAT Satellite Bus is a series of satellite buses that have been manufactured by the Indian Space Research Organisation and marketed by NewSpace India...

Cerise (French for "cherry") was a French military reconnaissance satellite. Its main purpose was to intercept HF radio signals for French intelligence...

system (satellite) solution, launching the satellite into orbit with the USGS operating the system once in orbit. As of October 2022, nine satellites have...

Satellite Soul is an alternative country/folk rock band from Kansas. Their sound has changed over the years from jangly roots rock to a hard cutting Alt-Country...

The Short S.4 Satellite was a small British two-seater sporting monoplane, produced in 1924 to take part in the Air Ministry's Two-Seater Light Aeroplane...

spacecraft by means of a constellation of three satellites launched in 1965. All three Pegasus satellites were launched by Saturn I rockets, and remained...

ultraviolet astronomy satellite operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The first mission of the Small Scientific Satellite program, it was...

The M.I.S.T. satellite (Miniature Student Satellite) is a satellite currently under development at the K.T.H. Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm...

Satellite Bay is the first studio album by German post-rock band Long Distance Calling. The album was recorded April 2007 at Tonmeisterei in Oldenburg...

The Satellite Control Network (SCN), operated by the United States Space Force's Space Delta 6, provides support for the operation, control, and maintenance...

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN /ˈsiːˌspæn/ SEE-span) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable...

Corporation and DISH Network Corporation, is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services and wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation...

Nour 2 satellite (also spelled Noor 2, Persian: ماهواره نور, lit. 'Light') callsign "NOUR 02" or "NOOR 02", is an Iranian military satellite, which was...

Horizons Satellite is a joint venture between Intelsat and SKY Perfect JSAT Group. Originally formed in 2001, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding...

communication satellite launched on December 6, 2014. It is the first satellite offering Ultra-HD 4K television services using Reverse DBS. The satellite adopted...

ionospheric research satellite which will be operated by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as part of the Student Satellite Initiative. Its primary...

Internationally recognized as the premier conference on small satellites, the Small Satellite Conference (also known as SmallSat) is held each August on...

T10 (formerly DirecTV-10) is a Boeing model 702 direct broadcast satellite that provides high-definition television (HDTV) to DirecTV subscribers in North...

system, also known as NAVSAT or NNSS (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. The radio...

Satellite Boy is a 2012 Australian adventure drama film about a young Aboriginal boy struggling to maintain the traditions of his heritage in the modern...

South Asia Satellite (designated GSAT-9), formerly known as SAARC Satellite, is a geostationary communications and meteorology satellite operated by...

The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) is a data processing facility and satellite-tracking ground station within the Geophysical Institute at the University...

amateur radio satellite. HADES was designed and built jointly by AMSAT-EA and students from the European University of Madrid, Spain. The satellite is a PocketQube...

Satellite EP is the fifth EP by the rock band Guster. It was released on April 10, 2007. It is Guster's third EP with the musician Joe Pisapia. The EP...

November 2021 by an Epsilon launch vehicle as part of the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program-2 mission. The key technology to be tested...

Negai☆″ ("Wish"), also known as Negai*, was a Japanese satellite which launched in May 2010. It was a student-built spacecraft operated by Soka University...

Satellite Beach is a coastal city in Brevard County, Florida, U.S. The population was 11,226 at the 2020 United States census, up from 10,109 at the 2010...

Lem (also called BRITE-PL) is the first Polish governmental artificial satellite. It was launched in November 2013 as part of the Bright-star Target Explorer...

Heweliusz (also called BRITE-PL) is the second Polish scientific satellite launched in 2014 as part of the Bright-star Target Explorer (BRITE) programme...

Satellite Business Systems (SBS) was a company founded by IBM, Aetna, COMSAT (and later wholly purchased by IBM and then subsequently sold to MCI), that...

Viking was Sweden's first satellite. It was launched on an Ariane 1 rocket as a piggyback payload together with the French satellite SPOT 1, on February 22...

designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit launch vehicles...

hyperspectral satellite. The mission was agreed upon in late 2010, and was originally intended to build two commercial hyperspectral satellites. Preliminary...

fourth-largest natural satellite in the Solar System, has the highest density and strongest surface gravity of any natural satellite, and the lowest amount...

PICARD is a satellite dedicated to the simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance, the diameter and solar shape, and...

country or region.[citation needed] A satellite tournament in poker is a qualifying event. Winners of these satellites usually win the buy-in fee to a larger...

Artist's concept of the Saturnian satellite system A satellite system is a set of gravitationally bound objects in orbit around a planetary mass object...

Ginga (Japanese for 'galaxy', formerly ASTRO-C), was an X-ray astronomy satellite launched from the Kagoshima Space Center on 5 February 1987 using M-3SII...

satellites, which supplemented and eventually replaced the Zenit spacecraft. Kosmos 2175, a Yantar-4K2 or Kobalt spacecraft, was the first satellite to...

The Satellite Years is the second studio album by the post-hardcore band Hopesfall. It was released in 2002 on Trustkill Records, the group's first for...

covers most artificial satellites built and operated by the Republic of India. India has been successfully launching satellites of various types from 1975...

Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation, including GPS. The current version, WGS 84, defines an Earth-centered...

characterization and technical intelligence via satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), sensors hosted on satellites in highly elliptical orbit (HEO), and...

Troll Satellite Station (Norwegian: Troll satellittstasjon), commonly abbreviated TrollSat, is a satellite ground station located at Troll in Queen Maud...

Prowler was an American reconnaissance satellite launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1990 to study Soviet satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The government...

ISIS 1 and 2 (International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies) were the third and fourth in a series of Canadian satellites launched to study the ionosphere...

established under the Presidency of Ronald Reagan to develop reconnaissance satellites equipped with stealth technology. Zirconic operated as a sensitive compartmented...

Satellite in the Sky is a 1956 British CinemaScope science fiction film in Warner Color, produced by Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger, directed...

The Injun program was a series of six satellites designed and built by researchers at the University of Iowa to observe various radiation and magnetic...

Télévision Par Satellite (French: [televizjɔ̃ paʁ satɛlit]; TPS) was a French company that offered subscription television packages via satellite. It was created...

Regenerative Satellite Mesh – A (RSM-A) is an internationally standardized satellite communications protocol by Telecommunications Industry Association...

Satellite is a Polish neo-prog band. It was founded in 2000 by ex-Collage drummer Wojtek Szadkowski as a quartet, with Sarhan Kubeisi on guitar, Robert...

Fibre satellite distribution is a technology that enables satellite TV signals from an antenna to be distributed using an optical fibre cable infrastructure...

Six Finger Satellite (a.k.a. 6FS) is an American rock band from Providence, Rhode Island. Described by former member John MacLean as "a post-punk band...

AMOS-60, is an Israeli communications satellite operated by Spacecom Satellite Communications. Spacecom Satellite Communications has signed an agreement...

of military SIGINT satellites originally developed in the former Soviet Union and used in the past Russian military. These satellites could pinpoint the...

The Environmental Research Satellite (ERS, alternatively Earth Resources Satellite) program was a series of small satellites initially operated by the...

Shenzhen Satellite TV is a flagship television channel operated by the Shenzhen Media Group. It broadcasts simultaneously in both standard-definition...

DORIS is a French satellite system used for the determination of satellite orbits (e.g. TOPEX/Poseidon) and for positioning. The name is an acronym of...

designed for mini-satellites weighing approximately 500 kg operating in low Earth orbit. The platform is used by six scientific satellites developed as part...

The Orbital Test Satellite (OTS) programme was an experimental satellite system inherited by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1975 from its predecessor...

Satellite Program Network (SPN) was a satellite and cable television network that broadcast in the United States from 1979 to 1989. Following a name change...

HAARP conspiracy theories. CRRES (Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite-program) Magnetosphere (esp. Artificial Comets, to understand why Barium...

Satellite laser ranging (SLR) is a method to measure the distance to satellites in a geocentric orbit. It consists of an astronomical observatory equipped...

"Satellite" is a song by American rock band the Hooters, which was released in 1987 as the second single from their third studio album One Way Home. The...

MANTIS was an Earth observation satellite developed by the UK-based company Open Cosmos with support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space...

Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) satellite system is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) program sponsored and operated by the United States...

Satellite Mode is an electro-rock duo made up of Jessica Carvo and Alex Marko.[citation needed] Based out of New York City, Satellite Mode has been an...

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) monitors meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics for the United States Department...

"Satellite" is a song recorded by Canadian rock group Nickelback for their eighth studio album, No Fixed Address (2014). A pop rock "power ballad" about...

drafting of UN resolutions for the peaceful uses of outer space, anti-satellite weapons have been tested in Earth orbit. The concept that the space between...

Satellite navigation software or GNSS navigation software a category of software that provide positioning services by utilizing data from satellite navigation...

and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 468 natural satellites, or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally...

The Galaxy series is a family of communications satellites originally developed and operated by Hughes Communications. It has since merged with PanAmSat...

Satellite is the fourth studio album by Christian nu metal band P.O.D. It was released by Atlantic Records on September 11, 2001. It was the band's last...

changes the Gamma observatory was redesigned as the free flying Gamma satellite. At that time the telescope was authorized in 1979, it was planned to...

and technology demonstration CubeSat-type satellite developed by the Brno-based company TRL Space. The satellite carries a hyperspectral imaging camera and...

of Russian early warning satellites as a replacement for the US-KMO and US-K satellites of the Oko programme. The satellites are designed to identify...

(Arabic: المنار, romanized: al-Manār, lit. ''The Lighthouse'') is a Lebanese satellite television station owned and operated by the Lebanese Shia Islamist political...

110, 605, 690, 782, plus Nauka modules flown on Zenit-2M reconnaissance satellites. 90 kg (200 lb) of equipment could be contained in the external Nauka...

The Satellite Launch Vehicle or SLV was a small-lift launch vehicle project started in the early 1970s by ISRO to develop the technology needed to launch...

Robotic Operations (ASTRO), was an American technology demonstration satellite which was operated as part of the Orbital Express program. It was used...

Lomonosov; MVL stands for Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov) was an astronomical satellite operated by Moscow State University (MSU) named after Mikhail Lomonosov...

"dumbbell" shape; the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies form one lobe, and the Andromeda Galaxy and its satellite galaxies constitute the other. The two...

The Satellite is a monophonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1973 to 1979 in response to the ARP Soloist and ARP Pro Soloist...

The Satellite and Cable Directive (frequently shortened to SatCab Directive), formally the Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination...

Asianet Satellite Communications Limited is an Indian multi system operator (MSO). It is the largest cable network services company in Kerala since its...

Steerable Satellite (BOSS) was a proposed satellite that would work in conjunction with a telescope to detect planets around distant stars. The satellite consists...

The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) was conceived by George Clooney and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast during their October 2010 visit to...

Crowdfunded satellites are artificial satellites that have been funded by using crowdfunding, rather than more traditional methods of financing by governments...

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Electro-Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions) was a French micro-satellite operated by CNES devoted to the investigation of the ionospheric disturbances...

The Xi'an Satellite Tracking, Telemetry, and Control Center (XSCC; Chinese: 西安卫星测控中心; pinyin: Xī'ān wèixīng cèkòng zhōngxīn), also known as Base 26, is...

(short for Space Plasma High Voltage Interaction Experiment) was a test satellite developed by NASA as the payload for the first Titan IIIE Centaur rocket...

satellites owned by Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC). The first satellite of this kind was launched on 13 October 1994. The satellites...

The satellite revisit period is the time elapsed between observations of the same point on Earth by a satellite. It depends on the satellite's orbit, target...

The Satellite Data System (SDS) is a system of United States military communications satellites. At least three generations have been used: SDS-1 from...

Sino Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. known also as SinoSat is a Chinese company. It provided satellite communications through a pair of communications...

been a number of ventures into submarine-launched satellites. The advantage of launching a satellite from a submarine compared to from land is that the...

Environment and Security, and the Galileo satellite navigation system The financial interest in the European Union Satellite Centre (agreed in principle) Space...

publicly traded satellite designer and manufacturer based in Midland, Texas, United States. The company is building the SpaceMobile satellite constellation...

A parasitic cone (also adventive cone, satellite cone, satellitic cone or lateral cone) is the cone-shaped accumulation of volcanic material not part of...

Advanced Vortex, was a series of three United States spy satellites launched in the 1990s. These satellites were launched and operated by the National Reconnaissance...

commercial communications satellite, part of the AMOS series of satellites. It was developed and built for Spacecom by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev...

Stereo Satellite is an American rock band featuring guitarist Mike Orlando and Jordan Cannata of Adrenaline Mob, former Rock Star Supernova singer Lukas...

Phobos (/ˈfoʊboʊs/) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877 by...

telecommunication project of the Russian Federation aiming to create and operate a satellite group maintaining communication to various terrestrial objects. The project...

Russian aerospace company within X Holding (ИКС Холдинг), developing a satellite internet constellation in, currently, low Earth orbit for high-speed broadband...

SATCOM (satellite communication) system. The device connects with a satellite via ordinary radio frequency (RF) communication and the satellite then connects...

Deimos (/ˈdaɪməs/) is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Phobos. Deimos has a mean radius of 6.2 km (3.9 mi)...

joined the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of...

GPS signals are broadcast by Global Positioning System satellites to enable satellite navigation. Using these signals, receivers on or near the Earth's...

as a terrestrial communication system (ship to ship; ship to shore), satellites are now also used to passively capture the signal traffic. With a few...

The Georgia Satellites is an American Southern rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. They achieved mainstream success with their 1986 self-titled debut album...

On-orbit satellite servicing refers to refueling, boosting, or repairing space satellites while in orbit. New commercial interest in on-orbit servicing...

Technology Experiment Satellite (TES) was an Indian remote sensing and photo-reconnaissance satellite. Technology Experiment Satellite (TES) was launched...

Radar calibration satellites are orbital satellites used to calibrate ground-based space surveillance radars. There are two types: active and passive...

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation; also, nāvik...

attacking satellites from the Earth; space-to-space warfare, such as satellites attacking satellites; and space-to-ground warfare, such as satellites attacking...

The Mexican Satellite System, also known as MEXSAT, is a network of three satellites bought by the Mexican government's Ministry of Communications and...

Jet Set Satellite is a Canadian rock band based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jet Set Satellite was founded in 1998 by singer/guitarist Trevor Tuminski and...

The Satellite class was a class of 12-gun composite sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888, and reclassified as corvettes in 1884. Designed...

Ralphie (or 3CS-2) was a satellite, part of the Three Corner Satellite (3CS) project, a three satellite (Sparkie, Ralphie, Petey) student research project...

An early warning satellite is an artificial satellite that detects ballistic missile launches in order to provide rapid early warning of a potential missile...

The expression 'launching satellites' (Chinese: 放卫星, Pinyin: 'fang weixing'), alternatively translated as "putting satellites into orbit", refers to a...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, or SSTL, is a company involved in the manufacture and operation of small satellites. A spin-off company of the University...

Density Satellite 1), and Cannonball 1), was launched 11 July 1968 via Atlas F side-by-side with OV1-15. Part of the OV1 series of USAF satellites, OV1-16...

known as PhoneSat 2.0 Beta or PhoneSat v2a is a technology demonstration satellite operated by NASA's Ames Research Center, which was launched in April 2013...

certified platinum by the RIAA in 2000. Their following studio album, Satellite, continued the band's success with the singles, "Alive" and "Youth of...

The DD India satellite channel has been broadcast in 146 countries. In the United Kingdom, it was available through the Eurobird satellite on the Sky system's...

Swatch began a marketing campaign about the launch of their Beatnik satellite, intended to service a set of Internet Time watches. They were criticized...

The Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS) program, was a program where NASA developed two weather satellites; which were placed into geosynchronous...

Queqiao-2 relay satellite (Chinese: 鹊桥二号中继卫星; pinyin: Quèqiáo èr hào zhōngjì wèixīng; lit. 'Magpie Bridge 2 relay satellite') is the second of the communications...

representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data...

This is a list of satellite television providers, operating around the world. DStv - under MultiChoice, DStv Bué UAU!TV ZAP TV Canal+ Afrique Easy TV...

"Satellite" is the second single from American rock band Starset's second album, Vessels, after first single "Monster". "Satellite" was released as a...

a geostationary earth orbit satellite (GEOS) for telecommunications, built by Alenia Spazio for ESA. The Artemis satellite operated at the 21.5E orbital...

The Inmarsat-4 satellites, or I-4 satellites are a satellite constellation operated by Inmarsat. They provide the Inmarsat BGAN, FleetBroadband, and SwiftBroadband...

The 15th Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, television shows, home videos and interactive media...

student-built spacecraft were three CubeSat picosatellites, extremely small satellites weighing around one kg each. These were deployed one hour and forty minutes...

communications satellite experiment. Each of the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive...

This list has been split into groups of 500 satellites: List of USA satellites (1-500) List of USA satellites (501-1000) NSSDC Master Catalog Spacecraft...

long-distance satellite communications. ORBIS radio beacons were orbited on stand-alone satellites or included as experiments on other satellites between 1964...

Broadcasting-satellite service (short: BSS; also: broadcasting-satellite radiocommunication service ) is – according to Article 1.39 of the International...

Clémentine (pronounced [klemɑ̃tin]) is a small satellite built by Alcatel Space (now Thales) for the French DGA, ostensibly "to study the Earth's radio-electrical...

The Egyptian Satellite Channel (الفضائية المصرية, ESC), also known as Al-Masreya, is the international channel of the National Media Authority. Founded...

The Satellite Distribution System (SADIS) is a worldwide satellite-based broadcast system dedicated to primarily distributing aeronautical meteorological...

American cable and satellite television network Freeform was originally launched as the CBN Satellite Service on April 29, 1977, and has gone through four...

(mass) density of the satellite, n is its mean orbital motion, r is the satellite's radius, e is the orbital eccentricity of the satellite, μ is the shear modulus...

the Geological Survey of Pakistan. Quetta Man gunned down in Satellite Town Satellite Town, Quetta 87300, Pakistan Satellite Town at Wikimapia v t e...

A Satellite Landing Ground (SLG) is a type of British Royal Air Force (RAF) aviation facility that typically consists of an airfield with one or two grass...

Foton (or Photon) is the project name of two series of Russian science satellite and reentry vehicle programs. Although uncrewed, the design was adapted...

TV & Satellite Week is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing. Its focus is on quality dramas, comedy and...

Satellite Town is a town in Gujranwala, Pakistan. "Pakistan- Settlement | Humanitarian Dataset | HDX". data.humdata.org. Retrieved 2025-05-12. v t e...

The Ekspress (Russian: Экспресс) is a highly flexible satellite bus designed and manufactured by ISS Reshetnev. It is an unpressurized bus originally...

Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms...

"electromagnetic wave"), also known as REXS (Radiation EXperiments Satellite), was a Japanese satellite. The launch was a project of the Institute of Space and Astronautical...

Air Satellite Flight 501 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Baie-Comeau to Rimouski in Quebec that was operated by the regional airline Air...

Earth's magnetosphere. It consisted of two satellites: an Equatorial satellite (TC-1) and Polar satellite (TC-2). Double Star followed in the footsteps...

Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite") is a name for multiple spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik...

Satellite High School is a public high school (grades 9 - 12) located in Satellite Beach, Florida in Florida's Space Coast, Brevard County. It was founded...

Human satellite II is an exceptionally high-copy but unexplored sequence of the human genome thought of as junk DNA has a surprising ability to impact...

Observations from a Lidar) was a French-built Earth observing research satellite. It carried an instrument called POLDER, which studied the radiative and...

Wèixīng; lit. 'recoverable satellite') series of satellites was China's first reconnaissance satellite program. The satellites were used for military reconnaissance...

Blagovest satellites (technical identifier 14F149) form a constellation of four geostationary satellites to support Russian Armed Forces communications...

The Applications Technology Satellites (ATS) were a series of experimental satellites launched by NASA, under the supervision of, among others, Wernher...

to prevent rogue ex-MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial collapse. GoldenEye...