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  • Thumbnail for Lunar Gateway
    article that the "lunar orbit project doesn't help us get back to the Moon". Whittington also pointed out that a lunar orbiting space station was not used...
    77 KB (7,184 words) - 23:36, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Advanced very-high-resolution radiometer
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) family of polar orbiting platforms (POES) and European MetOp satellites. The instrument scans several...
    23 KB (2,852 words) - 03:50, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orbiting Solar Observatory
    Orbiting Solar Observatory (AOSO) program was developed in the mid 1960s as a more advanced version of the OSO series. Conceived as a polar-orbiting satellite...
    11 KB (988 words) - 20:56, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
    using the IDEA payload on-board the unique orbiting experimental platform (PS4) of the Indian Polar Orbiting Satellite Launch Vehicle mission - ISRO"....
    67 KB (5,639 words) - 09:11, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polar (satellite)
    Science (GGS) Polar satellite was a NASA science spacecraft designed to study the polar magnetosphere and aurorae. It was launched into orbit in February...
    10 KB (730 words) - 15:07, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weather satellite
    to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously), or geostationary (hovering...
    30 KB (3,460 words) - 13:25, 29 July 2024
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    MetOp (redirect from EUMETSAT Polar System)
    Metop (Meteorological Operational satellite) is a series of three polar-orbiting meteorological satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA)...
    25 KB (2,709 words) - 13:52, 12 August 2024
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    weather forecasting products to users. Multiple generations of NOAA Polar orbiting platforms have operated to provide detailed imaging of weather from low altitude...
    224 KB (20,758 words) - 08:07, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for PSLV Orbital Experiment Module
    using the IDEA payload on-board the unique orbiting experimental platform (PS4) of the Indian Polar Orbiting Satellite Launch Vehicle mission - ISRO"....
    38 KB (3,146 words) - 15:09, 10 September 2024
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    Suomi NPP (category NASA satellites orbiting Earth)
    The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System...
    18 KB (1,795 words) - 14:41, 24 August 2024
  • Fram2, a crewed Earth-polar-orbit space mission aboard a SpaceX Dragon2 Crew Dragon, planned for 2024, the first ever manned polar space mission IF Fram...
    719 bytes (154 words) - 02:11, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for NOAA-18
    NOAA-18, also known as NOAA-N before launch, is an operational, polar orbiting, weather satellite series (NOAA K-N) operated by the National Environmental...
    19 KB (2,340 words) - 21:56, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Medium Earth orbit
    debris in medium Earth orbit stay practically permanently orbiting Earth. Most space debris extends to the lowest high Earth orbits just beyond the edge...
    10 KB (1,037 words) - 19:07, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manned Orbiting Laboratory
    The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed from...
    105 KB (13,040 words) - 03:12, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar Orbiter
    potential extension until 2030. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is a Sun-pointed, three-axis stabilised platform with a dedicated heat shield to provide protection...
    39 KB (3,145 words) - 01:00, 4 September 2024
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    Saturn (redirect from Orbit of Saturn)
    by space probes, in orbit or on flyby. In the 21st century, telescopic observations continue from Earth (including Earth-orbiting observatories like the...
    116 KB (10,424 words) - 15:00, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for NOAA-21
    (NOAA)'s latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System. NOAA-21 was launched...
    16 KB (1,596 words) - 01:59, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Earth observation satellite
    whole Earth. This type of orbit is mainly used for meteorological satellites. Herman Potočnik explored the idea of using orbiting spacecraft for detailed...
    14 KB (1,586 words) - 03:29, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Exploration of Mars
    Mars Observer (launched in 1992) Mars 96 (1996) Mars Climate Orbiter (1999) Mars Polar Lander with Deep Space 2 (1999) Nozomi (2003) Beagle 2 (2003)...
    120 KB (11,295 words) - 18:23, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Azimuthal quantum number
    equations are interrelated. The azimuthal quantum number arises in solving the polar part of the wave equation—relying on the spherical coordinate system, which...
    19 KB (2,121 words) - 15:28, 24 April 2024
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