International Designator

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title: International Designator
text: The International Designator, also known as COSPAR ID, is an international identifier assigned to artificial objects in space. It consists of the launch year, a three-digit incrementing launch number of that year and up to a three-letter code representing the sequential identifier of a piece in a launch. In TLE format the first two digits of the year and the dash are dropped. For example, 1990-037A is the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31, which carried the Hubble Space Telescope (1990-0
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description: Alphanumerical designation used to identify spacecraft in or beyond Earth orbit launched since 1962
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Designator
date created: 2006-10-08T10:40:29Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T14:40:40Z
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