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.

Library Data Referral Tree

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

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• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• NAFAL (STL)
• Parsec (pc)

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.
• Satellite Communication Network
• Satellite Navigation Network

Image Repository

1. A Comstar class Commo Satellite.
   
2. A Sanctuary class Sensor Buoy.
   
3. A Sentinel class Missile Platform.
   

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. Armed Satellite (WAH)
2. Artificial Satellite (WA) (Namesake)
3. Attack Satellite (WAH)
4. Automated Interdiction Satellite (WAI)
5. Beacon (WAN)
6. Commo Satellite (WAC)
7. Commo Relay Station (WAC)
8. Communications Satellite (WAC)
9. Defense Satellite (WAH)
10. Interdiction Satellite (WAI)
11. Intelligence Satellite (WAS)
12. Laser Satellite (WAH)
13. Missile Platform (WAH)
14. Missile Satellite (WAH)
15. Navigation Satellite (WAN)
16. Sensor Buoy (WAS)
17. Spy Satellite (WAS)
18. Weather Satellite (WAS)
19. X-boat Relay Station (WAC)

Civilian Smallcraft

Civilian smallcraft are carried by some of these vessels:

1. Utility Craft (U)

Supraclass Archetypal Roles

These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:

W-class Artificial Satellite Supraclass Archetypes
Archetype	Type Code	Exemplar	Remarks
Artificial Satellite	WA (Namesake)	4-C/D class Automated Interdiction Satellite	Artificial Satellites are sophont-made objects that occupy orbits around a world. Many sophont societies can achieve successful satellite launch and orbital launch by the TL:4-6 tech epoch. The first satellites tend to be science or spy satellites (...high priority military satellites), but by TL:7-9 they occupy every possible niche and function from worldwide communication networks to navigational aid systems. W = World Orbiter A = Artificial Satellite
Communications Satellite	WAC	Comstar class Commo Satellite	None C = Communications
Defense Satellite	WAH	Sentinel class Missile Platform	None H = Defender / Security
Interdiction Satellite	WAI	4-C/D class Automated Interdiction Satellite	None I = Interdiction
Navigation Satellite AKA Beacon	WAN	Sanctuary class Sensor Buoy	None N = Navigation
Intelligence Satellite AKA Spy Satellite	WAS	Sanctuary class Sensor Buoy	None S = Spy Satellite
NOTES: There is semantic overlap between many of the classes and codes. Some codes organize by mission or capability, others by size and tonnage, and yet others by other characteristics.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship - Artificial Satellite:

1. No exemplar yet available.

Military Ship - Artificial Satellite:

1. No exemplar yet available.

Ship Summary List

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

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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.

• Bob McWilliams. IISS Ship Files (Games Workshop, 1981), TBD.
• Jim Cunningham. High Passage 4 (FASA, 1982), 44-47.
• Marc Miller. Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1990), TBD.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• 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