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TOP 10 SATELLITES ORBITING AROUND
THE WORLD
Today, a satellite was involved in your life.
Whether you checked a weather report, watched
Sports Center or looked for your moms house
on Google Maps, you did something that would
have been impossible without an automated
spacecraft orbiting hundreds of miles above
your head. But how many of these satellites do
you know by name?
Here are the top ten you need to know,
because they make modern life possible.
1)HUBBLE SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
Launched: 1990

Opening our
eyes to the
wonders of
our
planetary,
Hubble
brought the
beauty and
mystery of
space by the
photos. It has
rich modern
astronomy by being an efficient tool for new discoveries. Objective to visible the
universe and to look the entire space with cameras.

HST is one of the greatest scientific projects having 2.4 m-diameter space telescope
optimized to observe from the ultraviolet to the infrared, collaborated between ESA
and NASA. Hubble was deployed by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31) into a
circular orbit 575 km above the ground, inclined at 28.5 to the equator. The time
taken for one orbit is between 96 and 97 minutes. Hubble have received some new
science instruments on1997. Hubble has resumed its scientific observations, with
expanded science capabilities and an extended life.
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2)GPS IIR-1
Launched: 1997

Without this
there wont be
the Geo caching
The U.S.
governments
NAVSTAR
program
brought global
positioning
abilities first to
the military,
then to the general public. It takes a constellation of these things for the system to
work the IIR-1 is the one among them. The GPS satellite and payload shroud survived
intact until impacting the ground .The GPS satellite took charge, covered and handled
perfect until impacting the ground.

3)THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE

STATION (ISS)
Launched: 1998

ISS is a space
station, or an
artificial
satellite
suited for
maintaining
and
monitoring
the
spacecrafts,
in low Earth
orbit. The
ISS is now the largest artificial body in orbit and can often be seen with the naked
eye from Earth. The ISS serves as a micro gravity and space environment research
laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human
biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and other fields. It completes 15.54 orbits
per day.
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4)KH-13
Launched: 1999

OOPS! A
hidden
information
about the
satellite. This
U.S. spy
satellite is so
secret, even the
name is
probably wrong
the government
started giving
them random
names after people caught onto to the KH numbering system.

5)TERRA
Launched: 1999

A Chief of the
Terra Earth
Observing
System EOS
which is a
multinational N
ASA scientific
research satellit
e in a Sun-
synchronous or
bit around
the Earth. It
was placed into
a near-polar, sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705km.

Terra undertaken the five remote sensors designed to monitor to update the state of
Earths environment and ongoing changes in its climate system.
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ASTER(Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
CERES(Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System)
MISR( Multi-angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer)
MODIS(Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectro Radiometer)
MOPITT(Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere)

Also Data from the satellite helps scientists better to census the spread of pollution
around the globe. It gives entirely the updated and new data.

6)LANDSAT 7
Launched: 1999

The
satellite for
refreshing
the global
archives of
satellite
photos,
providing
up-to-date
and cloud-
free images. Has the capacity to collect and transmit up to 532 images per day a polar
sun-synchronous orbit, meaning it scans across the entire earths surface. The data
collected and distributed, managed and operated by the USGS. Landsat 7 has a solid
state memory of 378 gigabits. The main instrument on board Landsat 7 is the
Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus.

7)GOES 12
Launched: 2001

An
American weath
er satellite,
in April 2010 it
is the standby
orbit, position
providing
coverage of the
east coast of the
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United States. GOES 12 was used instead in order to test its Solar X-ray Image. The
Solar X-ray Image failed in April 2006.

From its high-altitude geosynchronous orbit, GOES-12 keeps a constant look on

weather conditions in most of North America.

8)NOAA-17
Launched: 2002

A Weather
forecasting
satellite
operated by
NOAA. The
NOAA
satellites have
asynchronous
orbits,
824 km above
the Earth,
orbiting every
101 minutes. Spinning around the globe to spot developing weather patterns that
affect billions of people. Satellite was retired in 2013 It hosted
the AMSU, AVHRR and High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HRIS)
instruments.

9)GALAXY 14
Launched: 2005

As one of the
geostationary
satellites.
The Galaxy s
eries is a
family
of satellites
have updating
many
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satellites. This communications relay carries digital TV signals for much of the east
coast, including ESPN, Lifetime, Sci-Fi, CNN, A&E and personal favorite, the
History Channel.

10)SES1
Launched: 2010

SES-1 is a
geostationary
communicati
ons satellite
designed to
replace two
aging
spacecraft
serving North
America whic
h is operated by SES World Skies.

It has a design life of fifteen years, however it was launched with enough fuel to
operate for at least sixteen if its systems are still functional.