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Scope of article

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I suggest that the scope of content of this article be limited:

  • to be narrower than the broad concept of unmanned aerial vehicles
  • to omit most details that are specific to individual aircraft types (Pathfinder, Helios, etc) that have their own Wikipedia articles

RCraig09 (talk) 03:56, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What's GOCE then?

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The article says:

To date, all atmosats have been unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

GOCE was a conventional (orbital) satellite that orbited within the atmosphere, using an ion engine to provide continuous thrust to offset aerodynamic drag. Does it qualify as an atmospheric satellite? I think so. –PointyOintment (talk) 20:16, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The GOCE article says it orbited at >150 miles — above the atmosphere like a conventional Low Earth Orbit satellite, not an atmosat. —RCraig09 (talk) 22:00, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely not an "atmospheric satellite" as the rest of the world uses the term, as it did not use aerodynamic lift. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:01, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

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I propose that Geostationary balloon satellite and High-altitude platform station be merged into Atmospheric satellite. These are all small articles and all deal with atmospheric satellites of one kind or another. As yet, there is not enough verifiably significant material out there to justify more than one article. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:43, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For high-altitude balloon and Geostationary balloon satellite,   checkY Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 14:08, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
For Atmospheric satellite (to be merged with content from high-altitude platform station and High-altitude long endurance),   checkY Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Naming

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"Atmospheric satellite" or "pseudo-satellite" seems to be much less employed than "HAPS" (high-altitude platform station), used by the ITU and the industrial group HAPS Alliance. If there are no objections, I'll change the name.--Marc Lacoste (talk) 10:08, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]