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  2. List of satellite pass predictors - Wikipedia

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    Uphere.Space real time tracking and predictions. As soon as new satellites are launched this application begins tracking them. ISS Tracker, since 2015 the most popular ISS Tracker and passes list. Heavens-Above, called "the most popular website for tracking satellites" in 2007 by Sky and Telescope magazine and referenced by NASA websites.

  3. International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    The International Space Station(ISS) is a large space stationassembledand maintained in low Earth orbitby a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA(United States), Roscosmos(Russia), JAXA(Japan), ESA(Europe), and CSA(Canada). The ISS is the largest space station ever built.

  4. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. The system was designed to replace an existing network of ground stations that had supported all of NASA's crewed flight ...

  5. United States Space Surveillance Network - Wikipedia

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    The United States Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. The system is the responsibility of United States Space Command and operated by the United States Space Force and its functions are:

  6. Eye tracking on the International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    Eye-tracking device on ISS Eye-tracking device on ISS. It was originally developed by the German Space Agency (DLR) for use on the International Space Station (ISS) and was uploaded to the station as part of the joint European / Russian space programme in early 2004. The device was designed by Prof. Dr. Andrew H. Clarke (Vestibular Lab ...

  7. Ground track - Wikipedia

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    A ground track or ground trace is the path on the surface of a planet directly below an aircraft 's or satellite 's trajectory. In the case of satellites, it is also known as a suborbital track or subsatellite track, and is the vertical projection of the satellite's orbit onto the surface of the Earth (or whatever body the satellite is orbiting ...

  8. International Space Station programme - Wikipedia

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    e. The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.

  9. ICARUS Initiative - Wikipedia

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    ICARUS Initiative. The ICARUS Initiative, short for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, is an international effort to track the migratory patterns of small flying animals using radio transmitters. The project began in 2002 and the tracking system was installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in August 2018, [1 ...