Orbit
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Description of a satellite's orbit. A start and end date are provided in case the orbit is known to have changed. If so, multiple orbit descriptions should be added.
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| Mars |
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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance.
Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere,...
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| Moon |
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The Moon is the earth's companion satellite, though some astronomers believe that it approaches being a planet in its own right. The Moon is large enough for its gravity to affect the Earth, stabilising its orbit and producing the regular ebb and...
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The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planet, asteroid, meteoroid, comet, and dust) orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.8% of the Solar System's mass. Energy from the Sun...
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| Pluto |
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Pluto (pronounced , from , ), formally designated '(134340) Pluto''', is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as a planet, Pluto...
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| Venus |
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Planet | 224.70069d |
Venus (pronounced ) is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an...
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| Jupiter |
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Jupiter (pronounced ) is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant, along with...
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| Saturn |
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the...
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| Uranus |
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Uranus ( or ) is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest and fourth-most massive planet in the solar system. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky (Uranus, ), the father of Kronos (Saturn) and grandfather of Zeus ...
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| Neptune |
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Neptune (, AmE: ) is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter, and the third largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin...
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| Landsat 5 |
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Landsat 5 is the fifth satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on March 1, 1984, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite photos. The Landsat Program is managed by USGS, and data from Landsat 5 is collected and...
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| Landsat 7 |
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Landsat 7, launched on April 15, 1999, is the latest satellite of the Landsat program. Landsat 7's primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite photos, providing up-to-date and cloud free images. Although the Landsat Program is managed...
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| International Space Station |
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility being assembled in space. Its on-orbit assembly began in 1998. The space station is in a low Earth orbit and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye: it has an altitude of about 350 km ...
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| Hubble Space Telescope |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST; also known colloquially as "the Hubble" or just "Hubble") is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in April 1990. It is named for the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the...
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| Mir |
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Mir (, which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia) was a Soviet (and later Russia) orbital station. Mir was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space...
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| Earth |
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Earth (pronounced ) is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planet in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the Earth, Planet Earth, the World, and Terra.
Home to millions of...
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| Earth satellite of unknown origin | Unknown origin satellite |
A hypothetical example of an Earth satellite that is not known to be of natural or artificial origin - possibly an astronaut's lost tool or an asteroid that is caught in Earth's gravity well.
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| Meteosat |
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Artificial satellite |
The Meteosat series of satellite are geostationary meteorological satellite operated by EUMETSAT under the Meteosat Transition Programme (MTP).
The program was established to ensure the operational continuity between the end of the successful...
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| Mercury |
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Planet | 87.9691d |
Mercury (pronounced ) is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system (since Pluto was re-labelled as a dwarf planet), orbit the Sun once every 88 days. Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent...
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