| Space Organization/ Country |
Satellite / Rocket Name |
Purpose |
| China National Space Administration. China |
Gaofen-5 02, |
- It is an Earth observation satellite of China.
- It is launched by Long March-4C rocket.
- Launching station – Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China’s Shanxi Province.
- It will be used for comprehensive environmental monitoring, to improve the country’s hyperspectral observation capacity of the atmosphere, water and land.
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| Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO , India |
INSPIRESat-1 CubeSat |
- It is developed under the International Satellite Program in Research and Education (INSPIRE)
- It is developed to study the earth’s ionosphere.
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| European Space Agency (ESA) |
Eutelsat Quantum |
- It is World’s 1st commercial reprogrammable satellite .
- Launch Vehicle – Ariane 5 rocket
- Launch station – French Guiana
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| NASA & ISRO |
NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar’ (NISAR) |
- NISAR is a joint Earth observation satellite mission between ISRO and US space agency NASA
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| Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
GISAT-1 or EOS-03 |
- It is an Earth Observation Satellite.
- Launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC), Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
- It will be placed in a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit by GSLV-F10.
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| OneWeb,London,United Kingdom |
36 Broadband Satellites |
- These satellites provides commercial internet services in the areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
- All the satellites launched by Soyuz rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome launching centre Siberia, Russia.
- The area or country covered by the satellites are UK, Alaska, Northern Europe, Greenland, Iceland, Continental US, the Arctic Seas and Canada.
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| China National Space Administration |
‘Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) Meteorological Satellite |
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| China National Space Administration (CNSA) |
Fengyun-4B |
- China’s 1st New-Generation Meteorological Satellites
- Geostationary Orbit satellite.
- Launched by a Long March-3B rocket.
- Launching station – Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan Province of China
- To provide instant forecast on small & medium scale environmental disasters.
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| Arianespace ( European satellite launch company) |
OneWeb |
- OneWeb is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite.
- This satellite co-owned by Bharti Global and the UK government.
- OneWeb plans to launch a fleet of 648 LEO satellites.
- Launched by Russian spaceport, Vostochny Cosmodrome.
- This launch is a part of its ‘five to 50’ programme.
- Main purpose of these satellite is to provide high speed broadband internet connectivity.
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| European Space Agency (ESA) |
WISA Woodsat |
- World’s First Wooden Satellite.
- Designed by – Finland
- This satellite launched by- New Zealand
- Launched to test the durability of wooden material for future space missions.
- The satellite tested by exposing it to extreme space conditions, such as heat, cold, vacuum and radiation.
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| China National Space Administration (CNSA) |
Beijing-3 (BJ-3)
HISEA-2 (HS-2)
Yangwang-1 (YW-1)
Tianjin (TJ). |
- Launched by Long March-2D rocket.
- Launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Northern Shanxi Province.
- These 4 satellite used in ecological environment monitoring, asteroid resource exploration, disaster prevention and mitigation.
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| paceX |
DOGE-1 Satellite |
- Moon mission will be launched in 2022
- It will demonstrate the application of crypto currency beyond Earth orbit
- First-ever commercial lunar payload in history paid entirely with” Dogecoin.
- Dogecoin is a crypto currency invented by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer.
- Launched through Falcon9 Rocket.
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| SpaceX |
60 Starlink Satellites |
- For providing Internet access through Satellite
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| China National Space Administration (CNSA) |
Remote sensing satellite- Yaogan-34 |
- Used for the survey of land resources, urban planning, the confirmation of land rights, road network design, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and reduction
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| SpaceX |
Starship Rocket Prototype ‘SN15’ |
- It aims to make human space travel more affordable and routine.
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| Blue Origin |
New Shepard rocket |
- 1st Space Tourism Flight of Amzon launch in July 2021
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| China National Space Administration (CNSA |
‘Haiyang-2D |
- Ocean Observation Satellite, launched by a Long March-4B rocket
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| Roscosmos, Russia |
Soyuz MS-18 Yu. A. Gagarin Rocket |
- Russia successfully launched a 3-member crew (2 Russian Cosmonauts & 1 American Astronaut) to the International Space Station (ISS) through this rockets.
- The rocket named after Yuri Gagarin, the 1st human being to travel to space.
- The rocket was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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| United Launch Alliance(ULA), USA |
spy satellite, NROL-82 |
- The satellite launched into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
- These satellites will provide a wide-range of timely intelligence information to national decision-makers, warfighters, and intelligence analysts to protect the nation’s vital interests and support humanitarian efforts worldwide.
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| Russia,Roscosmos |
Arktika-M |
- 1st satellite to monitor climate change in the Arctic Region.
- Launched from a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket.
- Launch Pad – Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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| Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
RH-560 rocket |
- Launching station – Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota Range (SHAR), Andhra Pradesh.
- It will study the Atmospheric regions, on Altitude Variations in the Neutral Winds and Plasma Dynamics.
- Here RH stands for ‘Rohini’ and the number 560 represents the diameter of the Rocket in mm.
- RH-560 is a 2-stage rocket that can reach a maximum launch altitude of 548 Kms.
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| US Startup bluShift Aerospace |
‘Stardust 1.0’ |
- World’s 1st Commercial Rocket powered by Biofuel.
- It can carry a maximum payload mass of 8 kg.
- It is developed to launched tiny nano satellites
- It is 20 Feet Tall & weighs around 250 kg
- It uses Nitrous Oxide bubbled with Oxygen as an oxidizer
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Satellite of Brazil
Launched by ISRO |
Amazonia-1 |
- It is launched through India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)- C51
- Launch Site- Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC)-SHAR, Sriharikota.
- It is PSLV-C51 is the 53rd mission of PSLV.
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| SpaceX |
60 Starlink Satellites |
- Launching station – Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States of America.
- All the satellites were launched using the Falcon 9 Reusable rockets.
- These satellite provides satellite Internet access to most of the Earth.
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| Skyroot Aerospace |
‘Kalam-5’ |
- Solid-Fueled Rocket Engine.
- Test fired by – Skyroot Aerospace
- Launched from – Private Test Facility at Nagpur, Maharashtra.
- It uses advanced Carbon Composite Structure which are five-times lighter than steel
- The rocket will be used for launching small satellites by ISRO &other space research organisations.
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| Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
wooden satellite |
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- It is developed to combat the problem of space junk.
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| Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
Sri Shakti Sat |
- Launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C51
- It is developed by students of Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology.
- Total cost – Rs. 2.5 Crores.
- It is developed to perform Internet of Things (IoT) in Space and Inter Satellite Communication.
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