Communications and Navigation

Applications

Science

Education and Training

Exploration

Resource Utilization

Military

Other

Telephone

TV (commercial)

TV (direct broadcast)

Satellite Radio

Store and Forward

Space-to-Space

Relay Satellites

Military Comm

Navigation (air, ships, cars, people)

Amateur Radio

Weather

Earth resources

Fire detection

Oceanography

Disaster monitoring

Search and Rescue

Crop monitoring

Global warming

Warning of space hazards

Commercial cargo/vehicle tracking

Ice flows

Orbital debris monitoring

Earth monitoring

Telescopes (visible, UV, IR, X-Ray, gamma ray, Radio)

Particle detection

Magnetic fields

Planetary

SETI

Solar

Biological

Materials research

CubeSats

Training missions

Educational satellites

Student viewing and tracking

Moon

Planets and Satellites

Asteroids

Comets

Beyond the Solar System

Human and unmanned fly-bys, orbiters, and landers

Surface Rovers

Lunar/Mars sample return

 

Materials processing

Solar power satellites

Asteroid mining

Atmosphere “mining”

Lunar resource utilization

Mars in-situ propellants

He3 from Lunar Regolith

 

Surveillance

Reconnaissance

Tactical

Comm.

Space surveillance

Missile warning

Nuclear detection

ELINT

SIGINT

IMINT

SDI

Space-based laser

ASATs

Wind measurements

Space tourism

Burial in space

Space Colonies

Lunar colonization

Mars colonies

Space Stations

Technology demonstration

Technology tests

Spacecraft repair, refurbishment, and recovery

Tugs, OTVs

Tethers

Prayer Wheel

Interstellar Travel

Examples

IntelSat

Direct TV

OrbComm

Iridium

GlobalStar

TDRS

MilStar

GPS

GLONASS

Galileo (ESA)

AMSATs

Molniya

LandSat

SPOT

SeaSat

NPOES

GOES

EO-1

DMSP

DMC

GEOEye

RadarSat

ORBVIEW

Hubble

Chandra

COBE

IRAS

JWST

Compton GRO

Spitzer

RAE

WIRE

EUVE

HEAO-2

Alexis

GeneSat-1

OCO

A-Train

StarShine

EDUSAT

AAUSat

OUFTI-1

PLUME

TJ3Sat

ASTREC-1

HERMES

ELaNa

E1P

UNISAT

SAUDISAT

FalconSat

Apollo

Galilio

Cassini

Voyager

Mariner

NEAR

Pioneer

Viking

ICE

StarDust

Genesis

Mars Rovers

Deep Impact

LRO

Industrial Space Facilty

SPS

DSP

FLTSATCOM

MILSTAR

GPS

BSTS

SSTS

SBIRS

SAR-Lupe

SBR

SMSP

OFEQ

Corona

Lacrosse

Sputnik

Celestis

ISS

MIR

SkyLab

XSS-11

TacSats