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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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.

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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. 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. X-boat Relay Station (WAC)

Supraclass Archetypes

W-class Artificial Satellite Supraclass Archetypes
Archetype	Type Code	Exemplar	Remarks
Artificial Satellite	WA (Namesake)	TBD class Artificial Satellite	None
Communications Satellite	WAC	TBD class Communications Satellite	None
Defense Satellite	WAH	TBD class Defense Satellite	None
Interdiction Satellite	WAI	TBD class Interdiction Satellite	None
Navigation Satellite AKA Beacon	WAN	TBD class Navigation Satellite	None
Intelligence Satellite AKA Spy Satellite	WAS	TBD class Intelligence Satellite	None

History & Background (Dossier)

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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:

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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 Mongoose Publishing 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