Space fakery

HiRISE image of MSL during EDL (refined)

Field of research investigating media fakery, science fakery etc. used by the space agencies, such as NASA to present to the public material about alleged space travel, Moonlandings and other fictional stories.
Fakeologist:

"NASA is the myth creator for Space"

Space fakery

330 billion dollars is spent on space. Each year.

NASA, Soviet Space Program, other agencies

Name	From year	date	To year	date	Types	Location	Information
Soviet space program, Yuri Gagarin, Earth orbit, Manned mission	1961	04/12	1961	04/12	psience, Space, Space travel	Soviet Union
NASA, Apollo program Moon mission Manned mission Moon landing	1961	07/16	1972	12/19	psience, Space, Space travel, Moon landings	United States
NASA, Apollo program, Moon mission, Manned mission, Moon landing, Apollo 11	1969	07/20	1969	07/21	psience, Space, Space travel, Moon landing	United States
NASA Apollo program Moon mission Manned mission Moon landing Apollo 13	1970	04/11	1970	04/17	psience, Space, Space travel, Moon mission	United States
NASA, Skylab	1973	05/14	1979	07/11	psience, Space, Space travel, Space station	United States
NASA, Space shuttle program, Challenger Disaster	1986	01/28	1986	01/28	psience, Space, Space travel, Space station	United States
NASA, Pale Blue Dot	1990	02/14	1990	02/14	psience, Space, Space travel	United States
NASA, Space Shuttle	1992	05/07	2011	05/11	psience, Space, Space travel, Space station	United States
NASA, ISS is lunched	1998	11/20			psience, Space, Space travel, Space station	United States
NASA, ISS Max Shuttleworth in space, calling Nelson Mandela, promoting AIDS research	2002	04/25	2002	05/05	psience, Space, Space travel, Space station	United States
NASA, Mars Science Laboratory	Launch 2011	11/26	Landing 2012	08/06	psience, Space, Space travel	United States

Planetary missions

After the Apollo program, missions to the different planets of our solar system have been claimed happened.

Name	Year launched	Date launched	Operators	Description	Primary targets	Secondary targets	Notes
Mariner 10	1973	11/03	NASA	NASA set a strict limit of $98 million for Mariner 10's total cost, which marked the first time the agency subjected a mission to an inflexible budget constraint. No overruns would be tolerated.	Mercury, Venus	Earth, Moon
Viking 1	1975	08/20	NASA	Scientists found that the observed Shapiro delays of the signals matched the predictions of General Relativity.	Mars
Voyager 2	1977	08/20	NASA	Voyager 2 is expected to keep transmitting weak radio messages until at least 2025, over 48 years after it was launched.	Jupiter, Saturn	Uranus, Neptune
Pioneer 12	1978	05/28	NASA	The most remarkable discovery was that the ratio of 36Ar/40Ar isotopes much higher than in the atmosphere which seems to indicate that the genesis of the Venusian atmosphere is very different from that of Earth.	Venus
Mars Global Surveyor	1996	11/07	NASA	On 6 December 2006 NASA released photos of two craters in Terra Sirenum and Centauri Montes which appear to show the presence of flowing water on Mars at some point between 1999 and 2001. The pictures were produced by Mars Global Surveyor and are quite possibly the spacecraft's final contribution to our knowledge of Mars and the question of whether water exists on the planet.	Mars
Mars Pathfinder	1996	12/04	NASA	The lander sent more than 2.3 billion bits of information including 16,500 pictures and made 8.5 million measurements of the atmospheric pressure, temperature and wind speed. Although the mission was planned to last from a week to a month, the rover operated successfully for almost three months.	Mars
Cassini	1997	10/15	NASA, ESA, ASI (Italy)	Its mission ended on September 15, 2017, when Cassini's trajectory took it into Saturn's upper atmosphere and it burned up in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn's moons, which might have offered habitable environments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft.	Saturn, moons of Saturn	Moon, Venus, Jupiter
2001 Mars Odyssey	2001	04/07	NASA	The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, evoking the name of 2001: A Space Odyssey. By December 15, 2010, it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3,340 days of operation.	Mars
Mars Express/Beagle 2	2003	06/02	ESA	The spacecraft's fate remained a mystery until it was announced in January 2015 that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, using HiRISE, had found the probe intact on the surface of Mars.	Mars
Spirit	2003	06/10	NASA	The primary surface mission for Spirit was planned to last at least 90 sols. The mission received several extensions and lasted about 2,208 sols. On August 11, 2007, Spirit obtained the second longest operational duration on the surface of Mars for a lander or rover at 1282 Sols, one sol longer than the Viking 2 lander. Viking 2 was powered by a nuclear cell whereas Spirit is powered by solar arrays.	Mars
Opportunity rover	2003	07/07	NASA	Opportunity remains active as of March 15, 2018, having exceeded its operating plan by 13 years, 323 days (in Earth time). Opportunity has continued to move, make scientific observations, and report back to Earth for over 55 times its designed lifespan. In December 2014, NASA reported that Opportunity was suffering from "amnesia" events in which the rover fails to write data, e.g. telemetry information, to non-volatile memory. The hardware failure is believed to be due to an age-related fault in one of the rover's seven memory banks. As a result, NASA had aimed to force the rover's software to ignore the failed memory bank, however amnesia events continued to occur which eventually resulted in vehicle resets. In light of this, on Sol 4027 (May 23, 2015), the rover was configured to operate in RAM-only mode, completely avoiding the use of non-volatile memory for storage. As of March 15, 2018, Opportunity is still functioning on the surface of Mars, and is slated for further scientific exploration. It is currently parked in its 8th Martian winter and should 'wake up' around the end of March 2018.	Mars
Rosetta	2004	03/02	ESA	The Rosetta mission orbited Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko for 17 months and was designed to complete the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. Rosetta's Philae lander successfully made the first soft landing on a comet nucleus when it touched down on Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014. The probe also flew in the shadow of Mars. During that encounter, the solar panels could not be used since the craft was in the planet's shadow, where it would not receive any solar light for 15 minutes, causing a dangerous shortage of power. The craft was therefore put into standby mode, with no possibility to communicate, flying on batteries that were originally not designed for this task. This Mars manoeuvre was therefore nicknamed "The Billion Euro Gamble". The flyby was successful, with Rosetta even returning detailed images of the surface and atmosphere of the planet, and the mission continued as planned.	Comet	Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter	2005	08/12	NASA	It has enough propellant to keep functioning into the 2030s. An article in the journal Science in September 2009, reported that some new craters on Mars have excavated relatively pure water ice. After being exposed, the ice gradually fades as it sublimates away.	Mars
New Horizons	2006	01/19	NASA	Images from July 1 to 3, 2013 by LORRI were the first by the probe to resolve Pluto and Charon as separate objects.	Pluto, Charon	moons of Jupiter
Juno	2011	08/05	NASA	Juno carries a plaque to Jupiter, dedicated to Galileo Galilei. The spacecraft also carries three Lego minifigures representing Galileo, the Roman god Jupiter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno.	Jupiter	Earth
Curiosity rover	2011	11/26	NASA	In December 2012, Curiosity's two-year mission was extended indefinitely. On August 5, 2017, NASA celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Curiosity rover landing and related exploratory accomplishments on the planet Mars. Curiosity's design will serve as the basis for the planned Mars 2020 rover. As of March 15, 2018, Curiosity has been on Mars for 1993 sols (2047 total days) since landing on August 6, 2012.	Mars

Satellites

Allegedly there are thousands of man-made satellites in Space. A selection:

Name	Year launched	Date launched	Operator	Description	Notes
Sputnik	1957	10/04	Soviet Union	First satellite
Telstar 1	1962	07/11	NASA	First communication satellite, first Transatlantic broadcast
Relay 1	1962	12/13	NASA	First Transpacific broadcast to Japan, of the assassination of JFK
Syncom 2	1963	07/26	NASA	First geosynchronous satellite
Syncom 3	1964	08/19	NASA	First geostationary satellite, first Olympic broadcast

Space telescopes

Allegedly numerous Space telescopes are floating in Space. The data acquired by these telescopes is used in astronomy on Earth. It remains to be researched if the data is actually coming from Earth-based telescopes or made up or a combination of both. New missions are planned for the future.

Name	Year launched	Date launched	Operator	Notes
Hipparcos	1989	08/08	ESA
Hubble	1990	04/24	NASA
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory	1991	04/05	NASA
SOHO	1995	12/02	NASA, ESA
Chandra X-ray Observatory	1999	07/23	NASA
Odin	2001	02/20	SSC (Sweden)
INTEGRAL	2002	10/17	ESA
Spitzer	2003	08/25	NASA
Swift	2004	11/20	NASA
Fermi	2008	06/11	NASA
Kepler	2009	03/07	NASA
Planck/Herschel Space Telescope	2009	05/14	ESA
WISE	2009	12/14	NASA
IRIS	2013	06/27	NASA
Gaia	2013	12/19	ESA
Astrosat	2015	09/28	ISRO (India)

Exoplanets

It is claimed that hundreds of exoplanets have been discovered. The source of the discoveries varies from ground-based telescopes to the Keppler and Hubble Space Telescope space props.

Name	year	date	Discovered by Space-based in bold	Description	Type	Location	Notes
HD 114762 b	1989	05/04	McDonald Observatory	First discovered exoplanet "Suspected" in 1984, discovered in 1989 Confirmed in 1991	psience Space	Texas
51 Pegasi b	1995	10/06	Haute-Provence Observatory	First visible light discovered exoplanet	psience Space	Chile
Fomalhaut b	2003	11/13	Hubble Space Telescope	First "directly imaged" exoplanet Informally named after Semitic deity Dagon	psience Space	Space
WASP-12 b	2008	04/01	SuperWASP	Due to its extremely close orbit to its star, it has one of the lowest densities for exoplanets ('inflated' by the flux of energy from the star). The planet takes only a little over a day to orbit the star. May have an exomoon. "Egg-shape planet"	psience Space	Space
Kepler-7 b	2010	01/04	Kepler Space Telescope	One of the first five exoplanets to be confirmed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, and was confirmed in the first 33.5 days of Kepler's science operations. "Styrofoam planet"	psience Space	Space
Kepler-11	2011	02/02	Kepler Space Telescope	6 exoplanets within an orbital range smaller than Venus's, richest exoplanetary system found.	psience Space	Space
Kepler-16 b	2011	09/15	Kepler Space Telescope	The planet orbits in a circumbinary orbit around a (K-type) and (M-type) binary star system. It has been called "Tatooine planet", "Again and again we see that the science is stranger and weirder than fiction" said John Knoll, a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, who worked on several of the movies.	psience Space	Space
Kepler-35 b	2012	04/19	Kepler Space Telescope	The proximity and eccentricity of the binary star as well as both stars have similar masses results the planet's orbit to significantly deviate from Keplerian orbit.	psience Space	Space
Kepler-64 b	2012	10/15	Kepler Space Telescope	The first known transiting planet in a quadruple star system, first known circumbinary planet in a quadruple star system, and the first planet in a quadruple star system found. It was the first confirmed planet discovered by PlanetHunters.org.	psience Space	Space
Kepler-444	2015	01/27	Kepler Space Telescope	5 exoplanets smaller than Earth in an orbital range smaller than Mercury. Sun-like but old star and 2 red dwarfs.	psience Space	Space
TRAPPIST-1	2017	02/22	Spitzer Space Telescope Very Large Telescope	7 exoplanets around red dwarf, all supposedly tidally lockedin a smaller orbital range than Mercury.	psience Space	Space

Asteroids

Name	year	date	Discovered by Space-based in bold	Description	Type	Location	Notes
911 Agamemnon	1919	03/19	Heidelberg Observatory	The largest Jupiter trojans and a suspected binary asteroid from the Greek camp, approximately 160 km (100 mi) in diameter	psience Space	Germany

Pictures of Earth

Allegedly the first so-called photo of the Earth was taken by Apollo 8 in 1968. But there is an earlier one, from Lunar Orbiter 5 in 1967.

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  Lunar Orbiter 5 (1967)

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  Apollo 8 (1968)

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  Apollo 8 (1968)

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  Apollo 10 (1969)

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  Apollo 11 (1969)

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  Apollo 13 (1970)

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  Apollo 15 (1971)

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  Apollo 16 (1972)

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  Apollo 17 (1972)

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  Galileo (1990)

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  Galileo (1990)

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  MODIS (2002)

• Total Solar Eclipse from the Perspective of Space.png

  Solar eclipse
  MSG (2006)

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  GOES (2008)

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  Rosetta (2009)

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  NASA (2011)

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  LRO (2015)

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  DSCOVR (2015)

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  Himawari 8 (2015)

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  Himawari 8 (2015)

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  Himawari 9 (2017)

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  Suomi NPP (2017)

See also

• List of psyops
• Glossary
• TYCHOS
• Nuke Hoax

External links

• Crrow777 - Satellites Do Not Exist As Described

Conspiracy Music Guru

• Welcome to the Satellite Hoax
• Do you still believe we went to the moon?
• "Puppet Show" - an ISS exposé
• No Photographs of Earth!

NASA

• NASA's Eyes - Space exploration software