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Communications and Navigation |
Applications |
Science |
Education and Training |
Exploration |
Resource Utilization |
Military |
Other |
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Telephone TV (commercial) TV (direct broadcast) Satellite Radio Store and Forward Space-to-Space Relay Satellites Military Comm Navigation (air, ships, cars, people) Amateur Radio |
Weather Earth resources Fire detection Oceanography Disaster monitoring Search and Rescue Crop monitoring Global warming Warning of space hazards Commercial cargo/vehicle tracking Ice flows Orbital debris monitoring |
Earth monitoring Telescopes (visible, UV, IR, X-Ray, gamma ray, Radio) Particle detection Magnetic fields Planetary SETI Solar Biological Materials research |
CubeSats Training missions Educational satellites Student viewing and tracking |
Moon Planets and Satellites Asteroids Comets Beyond the Solar System Human and unmanned fly-bys, orbiters, and landers Surface Rovers Lunar/Mars sample return |
Materials processing Solar power satellites Asteroid mining Atmosphere mining Lunar resource utilization Mars in-situ propellants He3 from Lunar Regolith |
Surveillance Reconnaissance Tactical Comm. Space surveillance Missile warning Nuclear detection ELINT SIGINT IMINT SDI Space-based laser ASATs Wind measurements |
Space tourism Burial in space Space Colonies Lunar colonization Mars colonies Space Stations Technology demonstration Technology tests Spacecraft repair, refurbishment, and recovery Tugs, OTVs Tethers Prayer Wheel Interstellar Travel |
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Examples |
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IntelSat Direct TV OrbComm Iridium GlobalStar TDRS MilStar GPS GLONASS Galileo (ESA) AMSATs Molniya |
LandSat SPOT SeaSat NPOES GOES EO-1 DMSP DMC GEOEye RadarSat ORBVIEW |
Hubble Chandra COBE IRAS JWST Compton GRO Spitzer RAE WIRE EUVE HEAO-2 Alexis GeneSat-1 OCO A-Train |
StarShine EDUSAT AAUSat OUFTI-1 PLUME TJ3Sat ASTREC-1 HERMES ELaNa E1P UNISAT SAUDISAT FalconSat |
Apollo Galilio Cassini Voyager Mariner NEAR Pioneer Viking ICE StarDust Genesis Mars Rovers Deep Impact LRO |
Industrial Space Facilty SPS |
DSP FLTSATCOM MILSTAR GPS BSTS SSTS SBIRS SAR-Lupe SBR SMSP OFEQ Corona Lacrosse |
Sputnik Celestis ISS MIR SkyLab XSS-11 TacSats |