What exactly do you think is real? Yes or no to the following:

1a. Space Shuttle in low Earth orbit.
1b. ISS in low Earth orbit.
2. Other satellites (communications, sensing, imaging, astronomy) in low Earth orbits.
3. Commercial Earth-imaging satellites in low Earth/sun-synchronous orbits.
4. Commercial communications satellites in geosynchronous (including geostationary) orbits.
5. Tracking (e.g., GPS) satellites in medium Earth orbits.
6. Spacecraft in lunar orbit (e.g., Selene, just launched by the Japanese).
7. Spacecraft in Sun-observing orbits (e.g., SOHO, Ulysses).
8. Spacecraft orbiting Mars/Jupiter/Saturn (e.g., Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
9. Spacecraft on interstellar trajectories (Pioneer 10/11, Voyager 1/2).

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