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Space programs and missions · A guided course
First missions, technical evidence and useful ground services
Follow four national satellite efforts through deployment, investigation, successive spacecraft and environmental data. Compare what the sources establish with what still needs evidence.
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BIRDS-5 transport: the NG-18 launch in November 2022. The enclosed CubeSats are not separately visible.
NASA/Jamie Adkins · Image sourceYour place in the bigger picture
Build on familiar ideas, then choose a direction to explore next. Every course remains open.
BIRDS, KiboCUBE and Moldova’s first satellite
Turn satellite signals into testable evidence
Satellite teams in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Djibouti and Sudan
First missions, technical evidence and useful ground services
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