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| Keywords: BLITS 300c target.gif en BLITS Ball Lens in The Space The BLITS nanosatellite was launched alongside the Meteor-M 1 spacecraft into a sun-synchronous 800km polar orbit by Russia in September 2009 BLITS is a 7kg 17cm diameter glass ball with two kinds of refractive glass a low-refraction-index glass shell surrounds a high-refraction-index glass core One half of the surface of the whole sphere has an aluminum coating BLITS was used as a target by the International Laser Ranging Service for precision laser ranging experiments Its expected 5 year mission ended when it was struck by debris from the destroyed Chinese satellite Fengyun 1C Fengyun 1C was used as an anti-satellite weapon target by the Chinese government owners some time before the collision in Jan 2013 2013-03-15 02 40 13 own Penyulap cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Research satellites Laser equipment Laser range finders LIDAR Videos of satellites Videos of measuring instruments Measuring instruments distance Glass spheres Vertical direction Reflectors in spaceflight Retroreflectors | ||||
