Hélios 1B

The Hélios 1B was a French military photo-reconnaissance satellite in which Italy and Spain also participated. It was launched from the Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana on 3 December 1999 at 16:22:00 UTC. The spacecraft rode aboard an Ariane 40 rocket which also carried the French military reconnaissance satellite Clementine. Due to power supply failures, it had to be left to disintegrate in 2005.

It has been replaced by Hélios 2A, launched on December 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket.

The name Hélios has also been used for other spacecraft - see Helios (disambiguation).

Bibliography

(French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Helios: The Orbiting Spyglass », in Revue aerospatiale, n°118, May 1995.

External links

NASA - Helios 1B

World Reconnaissance Satellites, excluding Russia and the United States

Commercial

Electro-optical	Quickbird · WorldView-1 · WorldView-2 · Ikonos · GeoEye-1 · GeoEye-2 · SPOT · EO1-ALI · ASTER · LANDSAT · ALOS

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International

Electro-Optical	Disaster Monitoring Constellation

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IMINT	SCD-1 · SCD-2 · CBERS-1 · CBERS-2 · SSR

China

IMINT	JSSW · FSW-0 · FSW-1 · FSW-2 · FSW-3 · JianBing · CBERS-2 (joint Brazil) · Yaogan

SIGINT	JSSW-3 · SJ-2 · DQ-1

COMM	Feng Huo-1 · ShenTong-1

France

IMINT	Hélios 1B · Helios 2A

SIGINT	Cerise · Clementine

Germany

IMINT	SAR-Lupe

COMM	TerraSAR-X · TanDEM-X

India

IMINT	Cartosat-1 · Cartosat-2 · Cartosat-2A

Other	RISAT-2

Israel

IMINT	Ofeq -> Ofeq 5 · Ofeq 7 · Ofeq 9

COMM	AMOS 1 · AMOS 2 · AMOS 3 · AMOS 4

Other	Eros · TecSAR

Italy

IMINT	COSMO-SkyMed

Japan

IMINT	IGS 1A/B · IGS 2A/B · IGS 3A · IGS 4A/B · IGS 5A · IGS 6A · IGS 7A

Turkey

IMINT	Göktürk I · Göktürk II

COMM	Turksat 1A · Turksat 1B · Turksat 1C · Turksat 2A · Turksat 3A

Taiwan

IMINT	-

COMM	Formosat-1 · Formosat-2

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