Sites

Keo - French
URL: http://www.keo.org/

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Time capsule in the form of a satellite that will return to earth in fifty thousand years. Submit your message for the future.

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Yohkoh Public Outreach Project - English
URL: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/

Yohkoh satellite is an observatory for studying X-rays and gamma-rays from the Sun. Site features data including movies and a wealth of information about the Sun.

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TERRIERS Satellite Project - English
URL: http://www.bu.edu/satellite/

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A scientific research project involving a combination of satellite and groundbased instrumentation designed to make daily global measurements of the earth's ionosphere and thermosphere.

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Sputnik - English
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/

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A look back at Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, forty years later. Reprinted articles from the New York Times.

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Landsat Program - English
URL: http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/landsat.html

The longest running enterprise for acqusition of imagery of the Earth from space. The images are used in the areas of global change, agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, and national security.

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Landsat7 - English
URL: http://ls7pm3.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Mission objective is to provide timely, high quality visible and infrared images of all landmass and near coastal areas on the Earth.

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FORTÉ Project - English
URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/nis-projects/forte/

An advanced radio frequency impulse detection and characterization experiment emphasizing the measurement of electromagnetic pulses, primarily due to lightning.

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Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) - English
URL: http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/

SNOE is a small scientific satellite that will investigate the effects of energy from the sun and from the magnetosphere on the density of nitric oxide in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

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The RXTE Learning Center - English
URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/

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Educational site that contains information on the satellite RXTE, x-ray astrophysics, and lesson plans which utilize real data.

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SWAS: Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite - English
URL: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/oir/Research/swas.html

The principle objective of the mission is to better understand the process of star formation through observations of water, molecular oxygen, isotopic carbon monoxide, and atomic carbon.

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Microwave Anisotropy Probe - English
URL: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Satellite mission that will measure fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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FUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer - English
URL: http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/

FUSE is a NASA-supported astronomy mission, developed by The Johns Hopkins University, to explore the Universe using the technique of high-resolution spectroscopy in the far-ultraviolet spectral region.

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Satellites de communication - French
URL: http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/physique/principaux_satellites.html

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Une liste des satellites de communication, météorologiques, de navigation, satellites scientifiques avec des caractéristiques laconiques.

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