Spacecraft
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Spacecraft is a generic term used to describe all vehicles that are designed to fly in space. Normally this would apply to vehicles that reach orbit. However, spacecraft is also used to describe vehicles that reach space, normally defined as 100,000 meters altitude, on a sub-orbital flight.
A satellite is an object that orbits the earth, or other space body. A satellite can either be natural (e.g. a moon) or artificial. Artifical satellites can either be manned or unmanned.
Classes of Spacecraft
Manned Spacecraft
- Apollo
- Gemini
- Mercury
- Mir
- Salyut
- Skylab
- Soyuz
- Soyuz-TM
- Space Shuttle
- SpaceShipOne
- Vostok
- Voskhod
- X-15
Earth Orbit Satellites
- Anik
- Arabsat
- Astra
- Aussat
- BSB – British Satellite Broadcasting
- Cosmos
- Direct-TV
- Discover
- ECS – European Communications Satellite
- Echo
- Explorer 1
- Faisat
- GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program
- HST – Hubble Space Telescope
- Ikonos
- Insat
- Intelsat-2
- Intelsat-3
- Intelsat-4
- Intelsat-5
- Intelsat-6
- Intelsat-7
- Landsat
- Leasat
- Marecs
- Meteosat
- Milstar
- Morellos
- Nimbus
- Ofeq
- OGO – Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
- Olympus
- Oscar
- OSO – Orbiting Solar Observatory
- OTS-2 – Orbital Test satellite
- Pageos
- Palapa
- Polyot
- Polyus
- Prospero X-4
- Rocsat
- SBS – Satellite Business Systems
- SCORE
- SEDS
- Sirius Satellite Radio
- Skipper
- Skynet-1
- Skynet-2
- Skynet-3
- Skynet-4
- SPOT
- Sputnik
- Symphonie
- Syncom
- Telstar
- UHF Follow On
- Uhuru
- UK X-4
- Vanguard
- Worldspace
- Wresat
- XM Satellite Radio
Lunar Probes
Planetary Probes
Interplanetary Probes
Sounding Rockets
Spacecraft in Literature & Art
- Bellerophon - Colonist ship named in Forbidden Planet
- Starship Enterprise - Inter-stellar ship from the Star Trek series.
- Serenity - Inter-stellar ship from the Firefly television series.
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