Talk:LAGEOS

Brass vs depleted uranium

01aug2009, Makeyev (talk · contribs) replaced 'brass' to 'depleted uranium' [1]. I am not sure this is correct. You don't need uranium to get 400 kg from a 60 cm sphere. It is true that this ref speaks of 'depleted uranium', but this one or this one tells it is brass. Which is compatible with the weight and probably much easier to manufacture. (Deep impact's impactor was made of copper) -- Xofc (talk) 07:23, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I did undo it. -- Xofc (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Xofc. I'll try to check up the fact (before your post I was shure that it's made of U).Makeyev (talk) 13:40, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

What results reported

eg Can anyone confirm that LAGEOS results confirmed the Lense–Thirring precession to +/- 10% in 2004 as claimed by Gregs post in Gravity probe B results ? - Rod57 (talk) 10:26, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
LAGEOUS results are mentioned (with sources) in Gravity Probe B. - Rod57 (talk) 10:32, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Message Image

Oddly, the Russian Wikipedia has a picture of the message plaque, which the English Wikipedia doesn't.

IE: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LAGEOS-FILE.png

Should it be included?

Youngwilliam (talk) 05:07, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Who built them?

Reading over this article, I was surprised at the paucity of information about who built these satellites, how they were launched and who operates them. Wikipedia articles on just about all other spacecraft have information about who manufactured them, and exact launch dates and information about launch equipment (i.e. what booster was used). Here we are told only that LAGEOS 1 and 2 were launched in 1976 and 1992, respectively, and that LAGEOS 2 was launched aboard STS-52. That appears to be it. I think at the least this article could be flagged for needing improvement (I do not know how to do that, as I am a bit of a newbie Wikipedia editor, but I have seen such flags appearing at the top of other articles). Arpd1234 (talk) 18:59, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

The article doesn't even mention that they are NASA satellites, and I would expect that information to be included in the introduction.--Pere prlpz (talk) 08:32, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

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Information missing for LAGEOS-2

For balance, and also for the sake of completeness, there are two pieces of information missing with regards to LAGEOS-2:

• Does it also carry the time capsule plaque described for LAGEOS-1?
• What is its expected lifetime? Is it expected to remain in orbit as long as the first one? 136.159.160.122 (talk) 21:26, 26 July 2019 (UTC)