TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE - ANSWERS FOR IDENTIFY THAT SPACE CRAFT
These are the suggested answers to the "TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE" quiz on Identify that Spacecraft or Satellite
- Sputnik-1 * The first artificial satellite launched (USSR).
- Aussat-1 * The first Australian communications satellite (GEO).
- Space Shuttle * Atlantis returning to land after STS-30 mission.
- Hubble * The space telescope that brings us those amazing images.
- Gemini Capsule * USA second series of manned spaceflight.
- ACE * Atmospheric Composition Explorer. Monitors solar wind.
- Juno * Recent (2016) US mission to Jupiter.
- Ranger-7 * First high resolution pictures of the Luna surface.
- Apollo-11 * First spacecraft to land man on the moon.
- COBE * Cosmic Background Explorer - Looking for the Big Bang.
- ISS * International Space Station.
- GPS * Global Positioning Satellite (Block II series).
- Surveyor-1 * First US sift landing on the Moon.
- Landsat-9 * Remote sensing satellite.
- Fedsat * Australian scientific small satellite.
- COROT * French scientific satellite - Exoplanets and Asteroseismology.
- EROS * Israeli optical reconnaisance satellite.
- GOES-8 * Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - terrestrial and space weather.
- DSP * US Defence Satellite Program - infrared missile warning.
- Luna-9 * USSR - first soft landing on the Moon.
- Hipparcos * Astrometric satellite - accurate measurement of star positions.
- IRAS * Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
- DMSP * US Defence Meteorological Satellite Program (LEO).
- New Horizons * US Mission to Pluto and Beyond.
- Kepler * Exoplanet hunting satellite.
- Luna-17 * USSR - first automated lunar rover.
- Himawari-8 * Japanese meteorological satellite.
- Mercury Capsule * First US series of manned spaceflight.
- Syncom-1 * First geosynchronous communication satellite.
- Tiros-1 * Television & Infrared Observation Satellite - first operational weather satellite.
- Voyager-1 * Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune flybys.
- Optus B series * Second series of Australian communication satellites.
- Luna-16 8 * First automated lunar soil sample return.
- Mercury Messenger * Orbital mission to Mercury - note sunshade.
- Venera-9 * First soft landing on Venus.
- NBN Co Sat (Skymuster 1A) * Australian internet satellite service.
- Pioneer-10 * Outer solar system explorer - first to leave solar system.
- Skylab * First US space station.
- SOHO * Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
- Mariner-4 * First successful flyby of Mars.
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