International Designator
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alphanumerical designation used to identify spacecraft in or beyond Earth orbit launched since 1962
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Vinony's link graph records 3,446 inbound references to International Designator, and connects out to NASA, Greek alphabet and Harvard University.
It is catalogued under topics including Identifiers and Satellites.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Committee on Space Research
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Encyclopedic overview
The International Designator 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 (1990-037B) into space. This launch was the 37th known successful launch worldwide in 1990.
Historical process
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “International Designator” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.