Talk:Balloon satellite
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- I will try to re-translate/humanise this article in the next days. I noticed there is already an article about Echo 1 which covers some parts mentioned in here too. I'm a native German speaker but not native English. Everybody is welcome to assist. --Warden 6 July 2005 04:39 (UTC)
- I think this article needs not only a retranslation but a restructuring . I started by adding a table of all balloon satellites I could find a reference to. I think this article should focus on the general balloon-satellite-technology. Information about Echo should be merged into this satellite's article. The text about PAGEOS covers too much non-balloon-satellite-related work. --Warden 01:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- I don't get it. [This makes sense to me as a "balloon satellite". Why does any other kind need gas? Surely it gets fired into space and is placed in a stable orbit, and that's it? Also, the Pageos thing makes no sense (and I checked the German; it's equally mysterious as to what on Earth - excuse the pun - it is.) Rd232 15:29, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
- Did a rewrite to clarify various points of the translation. The article still needs a math/physics expert to provide the right math terminology for "(Kugelfunktionsentwicklung bis Grad und Ordnung 12–15)". It's something to do with spherical harmonics. Chonak 07:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
