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LAGEOS

mission including two satellites that uses retroreflection of lasers to establish time-of-flight measurements of plate movement on Earth
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LAGEOS
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Summary

LAGEOS is a spacecraft series[1].

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[2], Italy[3]
  • Has part(s): LAGEOS-1[4], LAGEOS-2[5]
  • Official website: https://lageos.gsfc.nasa.gov[6], https://lageos.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov[7], https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/geo/missions/lageos[8]
  • P14541: IdK5C[9]

Body

Geography

Country listings include United States[2], a sovereign state[10], in United States[11], founded in 1776[12] and Italy[3], a country[13], in Italy[14], founded in 1946[15].

Related Entities

Italy LAGEOS-1 LAGEOS-2 United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  6. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'pl', 'p
    Gnd id → 4240973-1
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  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → IdK5C
    Instance of → spacecraft series
    Website → —
    Has part(s) → LAGEOS-1, LAGEOS-2
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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