Satellite Collection

Narco VHT-2 Superhomer VOR Receiver / Indicator, 1950s. Creator: Narco Avionics
Receiving set with damaged knob

Brick Moon Space Station Concept, 1869. Creator: NASA
Brick Moon Space Station Concept, 1869. Artists impression. " The Brick Moon" was the title of an article published in the Atlantic Monthly by Edward Everett Hale in 1869

T. Keith Glennan shows Lyndon Johnson aluminized mylar flim used to make the Echo I balloon, 1960. NASA Administrator Thomas Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B

Solar Power Satellite, 1976. Creator: NASA
Solar Power Satellite, 1976. This is what an artist envisioned the Solar Power Satellite would look like. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna

Satellite, Pioneer I, Reconstructed Replica, 1963. Creator
This is a replica of a Pioneer satellite intended to orbit the moon. Pioneer 1 was launched on October 11, 1958, but the final velocity was insufficient to escape the earths gravity

Satellite, Pioneer IV, 1959. Creator: Space Technology Laboratories
This object is a flight spare of the Pioneer IV spacecraft, which was launched March 3, 1959, on a Juno II launch vehicle

Garmin GPS 155, Prototype, 1994. Creator: Garmin International
Aluminum chassis, digital display plate, circuit cards with integrated circuits, rechargable battery pack, 3 connectors on back face plate, front case has control knobs and 10 keys

Prototype Indicator, Low Frequency Omni Range (LOR). Creator
24.1cm long, 13cm wide, 19cm high; c. 1946-1966; to / from, glidepath, azimuth se

Long Range Navigation (LORAN) Unit, LORAN-C, TI-9100, 1980
20 data keys, digital display, 3 cdi switch; 1980; first Loran-C unit for aircraft use; programmable radio navigational system

Antenna, Loop, Radio Compass, Winnie Mae, ca. 1931. Creator: Unknown
Square wood frame wrapped with copper wire covered by cloth

Navigational Satellite, Transit 5-A, 1960s. Creator: Johns Hopkins University Applied
Beginning in the 1960s, the United States Navy began developing a communications and navigation satellite program to meet the needs of ships at sea and submarines

Palapa B1 Satellite Medal owned by Dr. Sally K. Ride, ca. 1983. Creator: Unknown
Palapa B1 Satellite Medal owned by Dr. Sally K. Ride, ca. 1983. Palapa is the name for a series of communication satellites owned by Indosat, an Indonesian telecommunication company

Antenna Loop, Dual, from P-51 "Excalibur III", 1950s. Creator: Unknown
Dual antenna loops mounted side by side on ovoid stainless steel plate. Loops are energized with small electric motors mounted adjacent to the base of each loop

Communications Satellite, Echo 1, 1960. Creator: G. T. Schjeldahl Co
Launched in 1960, Echo 1 was designed to explore the new field of communications via space. Its design was remarkably simple: Essentially a large balloon, measuring 30 meters (100 feet) across

Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR), LaS Cert. Collins GLU-925 Global Landing Unit, 2004-2005
Black box flight test unit used in certification trials. The GLU-925 Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR) is the first certified example of an integrated navigational system that incorporates signals

Algeria, Algiers, Kasbah misc
High rise apartment facade with balconies, shutters and satellite dishes in the Kasbah of Old Algiers, Algeria, December 2007

The Milky Way. Creator: NASA
The Milky Way. False colour image of the centre of the Milky Way from data from the IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite). The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System

Sir Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel, German-born British astronomer and composer, 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
Sir Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel, German-born British astronomer and composer, 19th century. Herschel (1738-1822) became famous for discovering the planet Uranus

Sputnik 1, Russian satellite, 1957. Launched on 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earths orbit

Laika, Russian cosmonaut dog, 1957. Laika was the first animal to orbit the Earth, travelling on board the Sputnik 2 spacraft launched on 3 November 1957

Belka and Strelka, Russian cosmonaut dogs, 1960. Belka and Strelka flew into Earth orbit on board Sputnik 5 on 19 August 1960 as part of the Soviet programme aimed at determining the viability of

The new airship of Alberto Santos-Dumont, 30th September 1900. A print from La Vie au Grand Air, 30th September 1900. Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) was an early pioneer of aviation

Satellite photograph of Great Namaland, Namibia, 1972. Photographed by Landsat 1. The satellites multispectral scanner reveals lithologic and structural features with clarity

Death Valley, California, USA, 1982-1993. First full scene from the Thematic Mapper on Landsat 4. The vegetation-sparse terrain is dominated by landforms and other geological features

Composite photograph of London taken by Landsat 2, 29 July 1975. Satellite photograph taken from an altitude of 905 km (560 miles)

Astronaut on Shuttle mission 41-C, 1984. Shuttle astronaut with Solar Maximum Satellite in the hold of the Space Shuttle Challenger

Cryostat for COBE satellite, 1989, USA. The cryostat uses helium to maintain the extremely low temperatures that allow the satellite to function

Composite Landsat false colour image of Greater London, 1979. This image was processed by the Space Department at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough

Landsat image of Manhattan, New York, USA, 1980s
Landsat image of Manhattan, New York, USA, at 30m spatial resolution, 1980s. Seven Landsats have been launched between 1972

Drawing of Hubble Telescope, 1980s. Artists impression of the exchange of information via Hubble, Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TRDS) and ground stations

Galileo presenting his telescope to the Muses, 1655-56
Galileo presenting his telescope to the Muses, and pointing out a heliocentric system. Note Jupiter and its satellites, the phases of Venus, and the triple nature of Saturn

Galileos diagram of the Copernican system of the universe, (1632). Artist: Galileo Galilei
Galileos diagram of the Copernican (heliocentric) system of the universe. Also showing his own discovery, the four satellites (moons) of Jupiter. From Galileo Galilei Dialogo, Florence, 1632

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