Vela

Summary

Vela draws 180 Wikipedia views per month (space category, ranking #32 of 213).^[1]

Key Facts

• Vela's image is recorded as Vela5b.jpg^[2].
• Vela's subclass of is recorded as artificial satellite^[3].
• Vela's Commons category is recorded as Vela (satellites)^[4].
• Vela's type of orbit is recorded as high Earth orbit^[5].
• Vela's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02yj1l^[6].
• Vela's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Vela-reconnaissance-satellite^[7].
• Vela's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Vela^[8].
• Vela's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776444349^[9].
• Vela's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2776444349^[10].
• Vela's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 401633^[11].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Vela include Vela incident^[12], a nuclear weapons testing^[13], in South Africa^[14].

Why It Matters

Vela draws 180 Wikipedia views per month (space category, ranking #32 of 213).^[1] Vela has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[15]

Entities named for Vela include Vela incident^[12], a nuclear weapons testing^[13], in South Africa^[14].