Memoir, autobiography, biography. A memoir is a special kind of autobiography, usually involving a public portion of the authorâs life as it relates to a person, historic event, or thing. The text is about the personal knowledge and/or experiences of the author. literary agent discusses the contents of a quality memoir and how it differs from an autobiography or biography. Memoirs are perennially popular with many new books coming out each year. The bestseller, Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir, not an autobiography or biography.
According to CelesTrak there are 2,691 inactive satellites in orbit. 1,490 satellites are active for a total of 4,181. [1] The UCS Satellite Database has an equivalent number. [2]
Of those, about 1,000 are operational; the rest have lived out their useful lives and are part of the space debris. Approximately 500 operational satellites are in low-Earth orbit, 50 are in medium-Earth orbit (at 20,000 km), the rest are in geostationary orbit (at 36,000 km).