Akebono   Alouette   Amos   Anik   Ariane   Astra   Cerise   Clementine   Hélios   Hitchhiker   Hitomi   Giotto   Kosmos     Kwangmyŏngsŏng   Midori   Olympus   Picard   Prospero   Sohla   Vela   Vanguard

[terminated 23 April 2015]   [it was estimated that Alouette would remain in orbit for 1000 years]   [deactivated 2 April 2017]   [in Inuktitut, Anik means “little brother.”]   [a family of expendable systems]   [officially end-of-lifed on July 14, 2006; close to 4 years after it had ceased carrying signals,]   [French for “cherry”]   [as it would be “lost and gone forever” following its mission,]   [left to disintegrate in 2005]   [no known location.]   [lost on 26 March 2016; body last observed tumbling in orbit]   [the mass of the particle that impacted Giotto and sent it spinning was not measured, but from its effects—]   [scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, prompting an extensive cleanup operation known as Operation Morning Light.]   [it now seemed to be tumbling and was probably out of control.]   [final communication received 07:21 UTC on 30 June 1997]   [had a series of unfortunate accidents in orbit]   [, an unusually cold climate]   [a tape recorder is on board, which failed on 24 May 1973 after 730 plays.]   [; observed cloud-building]   [each sister remains in orbit around Earth]   [I will stay in orbit for 240 years.]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ALICE HALL is a PhD student in the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo. Before Buffalo, she taught poetry and writing in Portland, OR, where she received her MFA. Her work can be found in Quarterly West, Prelude, Heavy Feather Review, Dream Pop, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook One Million Nude Women (Industrial Lunch).