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  • formation of radiation belts. The second Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 which had detectors designed by Sergei Vernov, followed by the US satellites Explorer 1...
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    weapon delivery. Other satellites include the final rocket stages that place satellites in orbit and formerly useful satellites that later become defunct...
    60 KB (6,346 words) - 15:05, 29 October 2024
  • 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...
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    per satellite, so three satellites, spaced 120° apart, can cover the whole Earth. This type of orbit is mainly used for meteorological satellites. Herman...
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  • Solar Radiation and Thermospheric Satellite (SRATS), also knows as Taiyo ("Sun" in Japanese) or Shinsei-3, was a space probe developed by the Institute...
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    observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used...
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    artificial radiation belts. The Starfish Prime radiation belt damaged the United Kingdom Satellite Ariel 1 and the United States satellites, Traac, Transit 4B...
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    The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) was a NASA scientific research satellite. The satellite was one of three satellites in NASA's research program...
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    particle radiation consisting of particles of non-zero rest energy, such as alpha radiation (α), beta radiation (β), proton radiation and neutron radiation acoustic...
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    1960s. The Meteor satellites[clarification needed] were designed to monitor atmospheric and sea-surface temperatures, humidity, radiation, sea ice conditions...
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    (GPS) satellites. The program is now called the Integrated Operational NuDet (Nuclear Detonation) Detection System (IONDS). Twelve satellites were built...
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  • sources of exposure of electronics to ionizing radiation are the Van Allen radiation belts for satellites, nuclear reactors in power plants for sensors...
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    satelity" [New nuclear accident theory: Underwater explosions released radiation, satellites suggest]. Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 15 October 2019. Dobrynin...
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    be launched "piggyback" to other satellites during launch, detaching once in orbit, they were the smallest satellites launched to date—what would today...
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    forecasts. The ESSA and NOAA polar orbiting satellites followed suit from the late 1960s onward. Geostationary satellites followed, beginning with the ATS and...
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    earth remote sensing satellites, and radio and satellite communications. Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the...
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    Starlink (redirect from Starlink satellites)
    launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of September 2024, the constellation consists of over 7,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit...
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    globe. The NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) project involved three such satellites: the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), launched October...
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    satellites with prograde and nearly circular orbits that are not greatly inclined with respect to Jupiter's equatorial plane. The Galilean satellites...
    120 KB (6,790 words) - 18:16, 18 October 2024
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    hot spots can also be found via thermal imaging from weather satellites. Weather satellites do not measure temperature directly. They measure radiances...
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