Some Resources for Finding Information on Individual Earth Satellites
January 12, 2006
(In semi-random order)
List of Bright Satellites (the 45 to 65 brightest objects, by Rainer Kracht -- not recently updated?)
Some Brighter Satellites (about 150 of the brightest objects, by Jay Respler and Jeff Hunt, as of 2002)
Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica (comprehensive)
Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space (payloads, United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs)
NASA Current Missions
NASA's "Spacecraft Query Form"
The Satellite Encyclopedia
JPL Mission & Spacecraft Library
Jonathan's Space Home Page (Jonathan McDowell)
Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Space Policy Project
GlobalSecurity.org Military Space Systems
Dave's Space Page (David Hastings)
Gunter's Space Page and USA military satellites (Gunter Krebs)
Don Gardner's Satellite Program Homepages
Orbiting Earth Satellite Histories (through 1990, by Ron Baalke)
Unmanned spacecraft and satellites (Daniel Glover)
NASA Experimental Communications Satellites 1958-1995 (Daniel Glover)
Unmanned Space Missions (UCAR)
Heavens-Above Select Satellite
Russian Spacecraft
Space and Tech.Com Space Database
Spacewarn Bulletin
Space-Track (registration required)
Orbital element sets (two-line elements, TLEs, keplerian elements, keps, elsets, etc.)
Launch logs:

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