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Satellites: Orbits and Missions by Michel Capderou, S. Lyle

Satellites: Orbits and Missions Michel Capderou, S. Lyle ebook
ISBN: 2287213171, 9782287213175
Format: pdf
Page: 558
Publisher: Springer

The spacecraft was a dummy payload, which was launched into orbit on April 21 aboard Orbital's newly developed Antares booster during its maiden flight. "The ULA team is honored to place another next-generation GPS satellite on orbit for our U.S. The company also managed the flight and ground missions of the spacecraft, and GE's digital image analysis lab in Lanham, Maryland, processed ground images to reveal details as small as 30 meters long, such as highways and bridges. After a 15-hour, 31-minute mission, the satellite was placed into the target orbit by the Proton launcher. The TESS mission was awarded under NASA's Explorer series of lower cost and highly productive space science satellites. The satellite will undertake a 300-day journey to Mars. The trio of "PhoneSats" is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. Landsat satellites – there have been seven in the history of the program – fly 423 miles above the Earth along a sun-synchronous polar orbit that keeps the angle of the light falling on the face of the planet nearly constant. Current internationally-agreed rules on orbital equipment state that any satellite in LEO must fall back into the atmosphere “within 25 years of completing its mission”. Air Force customer," said Jim Sponnick , ULA vice president, Mission Operations. Known as the Venusian Precision Observatory, the mission goal is simple: orbit a satellite around Venus and monitor its rotation precisely.