Mission and Spacecraft Library
Encyclopedia
Mission and Spacecraft Library (MSL) is a reference web site, maintained by NASA
, containing information about satellite
s. It contains a catalog of several hundreds of satellites from different countries. The site was originally founded by JPL-employee Mike Evans, who had a vision of building a database that would be publicly accessible via the World Wide Web
. The site has not been updated since 1999.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
, containing information about satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
s. It contains a catalog of several hundreds of satellites from different countries. The site was originally founded by JPL-employee Mike Evans, who had a vision of building a database that would be publicly accessible via the World Wide Web
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
. The site has not been updated since 1999.