Sat1

Sat1 is the callsign of an astronaut assigned to the International Space Station. Sat1 is conducting extra-vehicular activities when he is contacted by NASA to observe the ICBM launched by Cpt. Price. Sat1 witnesses the missile's detonation, as well as the destruction of the ISS. Sat1 is subsequently thrown through space due to the missile's explosion before being hit by one of the ISS' solar panels.

Sat1 is one of two playable characters in "Second Sun". After the helicopter whites out Pvt. James Ramirez's line of view while holed up in the downed chopper, the view shifts to Sat1 who is instructed to look at the Eastern (dark) side of the Earth so that Houston Command can get footage of Cpt. Price's ICBM from Sat1's Helmet-Cam.

Sat1 was later killed as the ICBM blast over Washington, D.C. destroyed the satellite. Then the player's viewpoint reverts to Ramirez's.

Trivia

 * Sat1 is the first playable character in the Call of Duty series to be in space.
 * This is the second time in Call of Duty that a player controls someone who isn't in the military, the first time being Al-Fulani.
 * In an early sketch, there was an idea to be able to fight Makarov's men in the station, who had assaulted the station. The idea was scrapped.


 * In Modern Warfare 2's PC files, there are some unused dialog for a scrapped mission set in the ISS. An unknown character contacts the player calling him 'Jord', Houston also refers to him as Davies. It is assumed that 'Jord' was a nickname for Sat1 and Davies was a surname. It is unknown why Infinity Ward changed it.