It indeed depends on which satellite you are talking about. It can range from 5 kg for a nanosat to about 5000 kg for the average communications satellite. And that's forgetting about two of the extremely small Oderacs payloads of 4 February 1995 which had a mass of 1.5 grams (they were both 13.4 cm iridium dipoles) and, on the other end of the scale, the International Space Station, of which I have no idea what the current mass would be. But they are all, in my honest opinion, 'artifical satellites'. Jos Heyman >From: "Bram Dorreman" <bram.dorreman@skynet.be> >To: "SeeSat-L" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> >Subject: Masses of artificial satellites >Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:52:25 +0100 > >To day I got the following question: > >What are typical masses of artificial satellites? > >The questioner did not specify his definition of artificial satellite. He >might mean the payloads as many laymen do not know that there is a lot of >debris up there. > >I do not know the answer. May be some one in our SeeSat-community knows it >or knows where to look further. Any answer or direction to an answer is >welcome. > >Regards from a rainy Belgium > >Bram Dorreman >COSPAR 4160 >51° 16' 45.5" N 5° 28' 36.6" E (WGS84) 35 m > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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