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The German space agency Deutsche Agentur Fur Raumfahrt Angelegenheit (DARA) used orbiting space satellites in the 1990s to track deer and other wildlife migrating along the Austrian/Czech border, as well as storks migrating across Europe.

A Russian rocket in 1993 ferried to Earth orbit an environmental research satellite known as Resurs-O (Resource-O). Among the electronics inside the satellite was Germany's SAFIR science payload, a forerunner of environmental satellites from the Department of Research and Technology (BMFT).

SAFIR contained an American five-channel GPS navigation receiver for wildlife tracking. The satellite also was used to relay data to a German research station in Antarctica.

SOURCES: Deutsche Agentur Fur Raumfahrt Angelegenheit, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and Space Satellite Handbook.

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