Artificial Satellite

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WA-class Artificial Satellites are artificial bodies placed in orbit around fixed celestial objects (...stars, planets, moons, orbital complexes, etc.) in order to collect or disseminate information or serve other sophontic functions.

• This category covers smaller artificial satellites. The larger ones can be found at Space Station.
• Natural Satellites or moons can be found on pages by those names.
• The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
• It is a starship supraclass.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Starship User Types
  • Civilian Ship
  • Military Ship
  • Non-Commercial Vessel
  • Paramilitary Ship

• Advanced Ship Classifications
  • Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
  • Ship Type Code / Superclass
  • Ship Class Code / Class
  • Model (TL)
  • Bloc (Lot)

• Basic Ship Classifications
  • Adventure Class Ship
  • Battle Class Ship
  • Capital Ship
  • Fleet Class Ship
  • Size-Role Classification
  • Subcapital Ship
  • QSP
  • USP
  • World Class Ship

• Ships by Function
  • Bigcraft
  • Boat
  • Capital Ship
  • Largecraft
  • Non-starship
  • Smallcraft
  • Spaceplane
  • Spaceship
  • Starship
  • Subcapital Ship
  • Subcraft
  • System Craft
  • Warship

Speed of Travel

• Astronomical Unit (AU)
• FTL
• Light Speed (c)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• NAFAL (STL)
• Parsec (pc)

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Description (Specifications)

Artificial Satellites: An artifical satellite is typically a device, a structure or more rarely a small body such as a planetoid placed in orbit around a world in order to act as a platform or a base, to collect information or to relay or send communications.

• Debris or wreckage may orbit a world and be classified as an artificial satellite.

Image Repository

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Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

Artificial satellites are an important part of any advanced technological sophont society and serve a vast myriad of roles under almost any imaginable function. They coordinate communication networks, spy satellites, defense nets, nuclear munitions, and much, much more.

Supraclass Roles

Artificial Satellites typically serve the following roles:

1. Artificial Satellite (WA)
2. Automated Interdiction Satellite
3. Beacon
4. Commo Satellite
5. Commo Relay Station
6. Interdiction Satellite
7. Sensor Buoy
8. Spy Satellite
9. X-boat Relay Station

Supraclass Archtypes

W-class Artificial Satellite Supraclass Archtypes
Archtype	Type Code	TL Range	Remarks
TBD	TBD	TBD	None

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship - Artificial Satellite:

1. Type TBD class Satellite
   1. TBD class Satellite

Military Ship - Artificial Satellite:

1. Type TBD class Satellite
   1. TBD class Satellite

Ship Summary List

Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role or these roles include:

0 Representative Artificial Satellite (WA) Classes
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References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium
• T5 Core Rules
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Baron Ovka of Ziirkago/Kasear (Vland 1930) A878654-C
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science