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More Great Links
Sputnik
NASA
- NASA Links
- Johnson Space Center - Shuttles!
- Photo Gallery
- NASA History Home Page
- Clementine color mosaic of full Earth - View Earth from a satellite orbiting the moon!
- Satellite Tracking Software
- Educator's Guide to Spotting Satellites
- Satellite Tracking
- Satellite Pass Prediction - Real-time via Java!
General Satellite Information
- AMSAT Phase 3D Project
- The Solar Power Satellite (SPS) concept
- Technologies for Earth Observation
- Amateur Radio Communications Satellite
- ARTEMIS - A Program to Identify and Map Lunar Resources
- HUGIN - a small satellite trying to be intelligent
- What Makes Up An Artificial Satellite?
- Automated Microsatellites and Ground Stations
- Phobos Mission Vehicle Design
- Teledesic: Global, Broadband Internet-in-the-Sky Network
- The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
- Sounds from the First Satellites
- Satellite Tracking Software
- Keplerian Elements
GPS
Space Junk
- European Space Agency: Space Debris Activities at ESOC
- Tracking "Space Junk"
- Photos: Impact Damage of LDEF Surfaces
Satellite Images of Earth
- World Image Map: Browse Images (Landsat 7)
- New York and Long Island
- Maui
- English Channel
- Earth Sciences and Image Analysis: The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
- Terraserver - See where you live, from space!
- SpaceLink - Earth Images From Space
