UCS-Satellite-Database
| Id | Name of Satellite, Alternate Names | Current Official Name of Satellite | Country/Org of UN Registry | Country of Operator/Owner | Operator/Owner | Users | Purpose | Detailed Purpose | Class of Orbit | Type of Orbit | Longitude of GEO (degrees) | Perigee (km) | Apogee (km) | Eccentricity | Inclination (degrees) | Period (minutes) | Launch Mass (kg.) | Dry Mass (kg.) | Power (watts) | Date of Launch | Expected Lifetime (yrs.) | Contractor | Country of Contractor | Launch Site | Launch Vehicle | COSPAR Number | NORAD Number | Comments | Source Used for Orbital Data | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 867 | Geotail (Geomagnetic Tail Laboratory) | Geomagnetic Tail Laboratory (Geotail) | Japan | Multinational | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)/NASA/ESA | Government | Space Science | Elliptical | Deep Highly Eccentric | 0 | 49,551 | 191,451 | 5.59E-01 | 9.39 | 2474.83 | 980 | 273.00 | 1992/7/24 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | USA | Cape Canaveral | Delta 2 | 1992-044A | 22049 | Study the dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail over a wide range of distance | WT | http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eurospace/espdatabase/index.html | |||
| 970 | GPM Core Observatory (Global Precipitation Measurement) | GPM Core Observatory | NR | USA/Japan | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/JAXA | Government | Earth Observation | Earth Science | LEO | Non-Polar Inclined | 0 | 392 | 409 | 1.26E-03 | 65.02 | 92.57 | 3,850 | 2014/2/27 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | USA | Tanegashima Space Center | H2A | 2014-009C | 39574 | The GPM Core observatory is equipped with radar and microwave imagers to collect data to measure precipitation in the Earth's atmosphere. | SC - ASCR | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/spacecraft/index.html#.U7bZNbHviAo | |||
| 1616 | MMS-1 (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission) | MMS-1 | USA | USA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Government | Space Science | Elliptical | 0 | 1,375 | 70,009 | 8.16E-01 | 28.9 | 1433 | 1,360 | 2015/3/13 | 3 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | USA | Cape Canaveral | Atlas 5 | 2015-011A | 40482 | 4 satellites in a tetrahedral formation - gather information about the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence, processes that occur in many astrophysical plasmas | JM/8_15 | http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ | ||||
| 1617 | MMS-2 (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission) | MMS-2 | USA | USA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Government | Space Science | Elliptical | 0 | 1,357 | 70,117 | 8.16E-01 | 29 | 1433 | 1,360 | 2015/3/13 | 3 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | USA | Cape Canaveral | Atlas 5 | 2015-011B | 40483 | JM/8_15 | ||||||
| 1618 | MMS-3 (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission) | MMS-3 | USA | USA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Government | Space Science | Elliptical | 0 | 1,429 | 70,045 | 8.15E-01 | 29 | 1433 | 1,360 | 2015/3/13 | 3 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | USA | Cape Canaveral | Atlas 5 | 2015-011C | 40484 | JM/8_15 | ||||||
| 1619 | MMS-4 (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission) | MMS-4 | USA | USA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Government | Space Science | Elliptical | 0 | 1,317 | 70,157 | 8.17E-01 | 29 | 1433 | 1,360 | 2015/3/13 | 3 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | USA | Cape Canaveral | Atlas 5 | 2015-011D | 40485 | JM/8_15 |
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