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  • 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...
    952 bytes (78 words) - 23:51, 24 April 2024
  • Electronics on satellites must be hardened against radiation to operate reliably. The Hubble Space Telescope, among other satellites, often has its sensors...
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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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    weapon delivery. Other satellites include the final rocket stages that place satellites in orbit and formerly useful satellites that later become defunct...
    58 KB (6,178 words) - 01:20, 9 May 2024
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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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    radiation, sea ice conditions, snow-cover, and clouds.[not verified in body] Between 1964 and 1969, a total of eleven Soviet Union Meteor satellites were...
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    (spacewalk) and determine their exposure to radiation. Microelectronics on satellites must also be protected from radiation. Japanese scientists from the Japan...
    266 KB (33,050 words) - 08:48, 23 April 2024
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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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    particle radiation consists 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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    (GPS) satellites. The program is now called the Integrated Operational NuDet (Nuclear Detonation) Detection System (IONDS). Twelve satellites were built...
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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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    for operation of JPSS. Three to five satellites are planned for the JPSS constellation of satellites. JPSS satellites will be flown, and the scientific data...
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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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  • sources of exposure of electronics to ionizing radiation are the Van Allen radiation belts for satellites, nuclear reactors in power plants for sensors...
    44 KB (5,081 words) - 03:05, 22 April 2024
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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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    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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    spacecraft's longevity in the radiation belts was considered a record-breaking performance for satellites in terms of radiation resiliency. The spacecraft...
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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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    and XM Satellite Radio satellites and the Russian Molniya military communications satellites, after which it is named. Communications satellites in MEO...
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