LAGEOS

mission including two satellites that uses retroreflection of lasers to establish time-of-flight measurements of plate movement on Earth
Place spacecraft_series Q1797842
LAGEOS
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LAGEOS

Summary

LAGEOS is a spacecraft series[1]. LAGEOS ranks in the top 6% of spacecraft_series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (164 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • LAGEOS is in the country of United States[3].
  • LAGEOS is in the country of Italy[4].
  • LAGEOS's image is recorded as LAGEOS-NASA.jpg[5].
  • LAGEOS's instance of is recorded as spacecraft series[6].
  • LAGEOS's Commons category is recorded as LAGEOS[7].
  • LAGEOS's has part is recorded as LAGEOS-1[8].
  • LAGEOS's has part is recorded as LAGEOS-2[9].
  • LAGEOS's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02tpx6[10].
  • LAGEOS's official website is recorded as https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/geo/missions/lageos[11].
  • LAGEOS's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Laser-Geodynamic-Satellite[12].
  • LAGEOS's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as LAGEOS[13].
  • LAGEOS's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 401861[14].

Body

Geography

Country listings include United States[3], a sovereign state[15], in United States[16], founded in 1776[17] and Italy[4], a country[18], in Italy[19], founded in 1946[20].

Designation and Status

LAGEOS's instance of is recorded as spacecraft series[6].

Why It Matters

LAGEOS ranks in the top 6% of spacecraft_series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (164 views/month).[2] LAGEOS has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] LAGEOS is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_lageos_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{LAGEOS}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/lageos}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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