Editing Satellite (section)

=== Later Satellite Development ===
Early satellites were built to unique designs. With advancements in technology, multiple satellites began to be built on [[Comparison of satellite buses|single model platforms]] called [[satellite bus]]es. The first standardized satellite bus design was the [[HS-333]] [[Geosynchronous orbit|geosynchronous]] (GEO) [[communication satellite]] launched in 1972. Beginning in 1997, [[FreeFlyer]] is a commercial off-the-shelf software application for satellite mission analysis, design, and operations.

After the late 2010s, and especially after the advent and operational fielding of large [[satellite internet constellation]]s—where on-orbit active satellites more than doubled over a period of five years—the companies building the constellations began to propose regular planned deorbiting of the older satellites that reached the [[End-of-life (product)|end of life]], as a part of the [[regulatory authority|regulatory process]] of obtaining a launch license.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} The largest artificial satellite ever is the [[International Space Station]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Welch |first1=Rosanne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWGHDwAAQBAJ&q=largest+artificial+satellite&pg=RA2-PA126 |title=Technical Innovation in American History: An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology [3 volumes] |last2=Lamphier |first2=Peg A. |year=2019 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-094-2 |page=126 |language=en |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214004816/https://books.google.com/books?id=aWGHDwAAQBAJ&q=largest+artificial+satellite&pg=RA2-PA126 |archive-date=14 February 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

By the early 2000s, and particularly after the advent of [[CubeSat]]s and increased launches of [[Microsatellite (spaceflight)|microsats]]—frequently launched to the lower altitudes of [[low Earth orbit]] (LEO)—satellites began to more frequently be designed to get destroyed, or breakup and burnup entirely in the atmosphere.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Slejko |first1=E. A. |last2=Gregorio |first2=A. |last3=Lughi |first3=V. |year=2021 |title=Material selection for a CubeSat structural bus complying with debris mitigation |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117720308383 |url-status=live |journal=Advances in Space Research |volume=67 |issue=5 |pages=1468–1476 |bibcode=2021AdSpR..67.1468S |doi=10.1016/j.asr.2020.11.037 |s2cid=233841294 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603044215/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117720308383 |archive-date=3 June 2022 |access-date=3 June 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
For example, [[SpaceX]] [[Starlink]] satellites, the first large satellite internet constellation to exceed 1000 active satellites on orbit in 2020, are designed<!-- these are the v1.0 sats; the v0.9 sats had at least one component that was not fully demiseable --> to be 100% demisable and burn up completely on their atmospheric reentry at the end of their life, or in the event of an early satellite failure.<ref name="tasia202104">{{cite news |last1=Garrity |first1=John |last2=Husar |first2=Arndt |date=April 2021 |title=Digital Connectivity and Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellations: Opportunities for Asia and the Pacific |work=think-asia.org |url=https://think-asia.org/handle/11540/13626 |url-status=live |access-date=3 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721104450/https://think-asia.org/handle/11540/13626 |archive-date=21 July 2022}}</ref>

In different periods, many countries, such as [[Algeria]], [[Argentina]], [[Australia]], [[Austria]], [[Brazil]], [[Canada]], [[Chile]], [[China]], [[Denmark]], [[Egypt]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[India]], [[Iran]], [[Israel]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[South Korea]], [[Malaysia]], [[Mexico]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Norway]], [[Pakistan]], [[Poland]], [[Russia]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[South Africa]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]], [[Thailand]], [[Turkey]], [[Ukraine]], the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]], had some satellites in orbit.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Buchholz |first1=Katharina |title=The Countries with the Most Satellites in Space |date=4 May 2023 |url=https://www.statista.com/chart/17107/countries-with-the-most-satellites-in-space/ |access-date=11 November 2023 |publisher=statista |archive-date=4 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004102936/https://www.statista.com/chart/17107/countries-with-the-most-satellites-in-space/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Japan's space agency (JAXA) and [[NASA]] plan to send a wooden satellite prototype called LingoSat into orbit in the summer of 2024. They have been working on this project for few years and sent first wood samples to the space in 2021 to test the material's resilience to space conditions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cairns |first1=Rebecca |title=Japanese scientists want to send a wooden satellite into space |date=11 November 2023 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/asia/japan-wooden-satellite-scn-spc/index.html |access-date=11 November 2023 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>