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10. The Humanity Star
In January of 2018, a private US space company, called Rocket Lab, launched a satellite called the ‘Humanity Star' into orbit. Unlike most other satellites, this one didn't have a scientific, military, or civil purpose… instead, the 3 feet in diameter disco ball-like object was intended, according to its designers, to be a ‘bright symbol and reminder to all on earth about our fragile place in the universe'.
9. Kosmos 2430
Launched in 2007, the Russian built Kosmos 2430 was a part of the Russian space forces' Oko programme. Crammed full of observation equipment, such as optical telescopes and infrared sensors, its primary mission was to detect ground-based missile launches.
8. Skylab
Skylab was America's first space station and was the home to rotating astronaut crews between May 1973 and February of 1974. It was abandoned with plans to use a newly developed spacecraft, the shuttle, to reactivate it… but with no way to take it to a higher orbit, and delays in the space shuttle program, the station re-entered the earth's atmosphere in 1979 over the southern Indian Ocean.
7. RXTE
NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, also known as RXTE, was launched in 1995 with a mission to monitor the environments of black holes and neutron stars by looking at the x-ray wavelengths and hoping to uncover new data about the objects.
6. The GOCE Satellite
The European Space Agency’s ‘GOCE’ satellite was launched in 2009 to map the earth’s gravitational field and oceans in far greater detail than had ever been done before. Costing more than 450 million dollars, the 1 ton, Xenon-ion propelled probe collected extensive valuable readings but, eventually, was destined to succumb to the gravitational forces that it had been measuring.
5. Salyut-7
Salyut-7 was a Russian space station that orbited the earth between 1982 and 1991. It was crewed for the first 4 years, was the 10th space station to enter orbit, and was the last one of the Salyut program.
4. The UARS Satellite
NASA's Upper Earth Research Satellite, or UARS for short, was launched in 1991 to study the earth's atmosphere- with a particular focus on the ozone layer. Weighing 13,000 pounds, it was released by the Shuttle Discovery and operated at an altitude of 370 miles.
3. Tiangong-1 Space Station
China's first space station, Tiangong-1, was a manned laboratory that was in orbit between 2011 and 2018. With a name meaning ‘Heavenly Palace', the craft was used by the Chinese Space Agency to perfect docking capabilities and surpassed its initial intended lifespan by a number of years. As the first part of the Tiangong program, it paved the way for future Chinese missions.
2. Kosmos 954
Launched by the Soviet Union in 1977, Kosmos 954 was the most dangerous satellite re-entry that’s ever happened. The probe was a reconnaissance satellite as a part of the RORSAT programme that monitored ocean traffic with radar.
1. Mir
Before the ISS was launched, the Mir space station was the main permanent base in orbit that hosted crews from agencies across the world. It was initially launched in 1986 and was at the time the largest artificial satellite in orbit. Built with a modular design, extra parts were added over the following ten years, and it was where the record for the longest human spaceflight happened- when Valeri Polyakov lived there for just under 438 days.
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