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Satellites: Orbits and Missions Michel Capderou, S. Lyle
Publisher: Springer

MSU satellite orbits the Earth after early morning launch. The imaging satellite, which will be known as Landsat 8 once it reaches orbit, continues the mission of Landsat 7, which has been transmitting images since 1999, and Landsat 5, launched in 1984 but on its last legs. Healthy, officials are considering the possibility of an “external disturbance” — a micrometeoroid collision — causing an “attitude disturbance” in the satellite's orbit 22,300 mi. Satellite watchers did note that in early March, OTV-3 propelled itself upward 29 miles (46 kilometers) to raise its orbit to 248 miles (399 km). Orbital will provide its LEOStar-2 spacecraft platform and conduct systems integration and test for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission at its Dulles, VA satellite design and production facilities. This artist's illustration shows it in orbit. A Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) stopped sending imaging and sounding data late May 22, prompting the Boeing-made satellite to enter into an orbital safe mode. MSU's Explorer-1 [Prime] satellite was launched early Oct. The Indian SARAL satellite was placed into orbit Monday 25 February from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in southern India. October 28, 2011 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service. The craft's inclination remained at 43.5 degrees. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engines provided the power to successfully place the fifth in a series of Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-5) communication satellites into orbit today for the U.S. Over the East Coast, says Ron Mahmot, the mission operations division manager for GOES at NOAA.