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- 3. high-resolution commercial satellite of DigitalGlobe
- 4. explores the connections between Earth's atmosphere, land, snow and ice, ocean
- 6. for cartography, management of agriculture, forestry, water, mineral and oil resources
- 7. accurate weather forecasts and severe weather alerts
- 12. a microsatellite, with a mass of ~70 kg, and contained the computerized system to conduct the studies on the gravity gradient
- 13. an experimental satellite that uses radar to observe clouds and precipitation from space
- 15. designed to be a small satellite with a mass of 750kg
- 17. first artificial satellite to orbit earth
- 19. used to study earths ozone,air quality and climate
- 21. designed to measure cloud-cover distribution over the daylight portion of its orbit
- 22. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live
- 23. used to collect information about earths water
- 24. oceanography mission launched in 2001
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- 1. Indonesia’s first remote sensing satellite, made by the experts from National Institute of Aeronautics and Space and Technical University Berlin Germany
- 2. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which launched on 21 November 2020, and Sentinel-6B, which will launch in 2025
- 5. provide a unique resource for those who work in agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global change research.
- 8. A quick response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1
- 9. easily seen from earth at night
- 10. for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics
- 11. The primary features on Landsat 7 include a panchromatic band with 15 meter spatial resolution, an onboard full aperture solar calibrator, five percent absolute radiometric calibration, and a thermal infrared channel with a four-fold improvement in spatial resolution over Thematic Mapper (TM).
- 14. a remote sensing Earth observation satellite that was designed and built at the Space Technology Laboratories of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai.
- 16. Formosat-5 is the first Earth observation satellite manufactured and operated solely by the National Space Organization
- 18. The satellite carries the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instruments.
- 20. used to study clouds and aerosols affects on the earths climate
- 25. ALOS-2 is the follow-on JAXA L-SAR satellite mission of ALOS (Daichi) approved by the Japanese government in late 2008