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Launched on the same rocket as the first Ugandan satellite Albania: Albania-1 State Authority for Geospatial Information: Satellogic: Falcon 9: Cape Canaveral SLC-40: 3 January 2023 First Albanian satellites, launched as a pair Albania-2 Vatican City Italy: SpeiSat Dicastery for Communication/ASI: ASI Falcon 9: Vandenberg SLC-4E: 12 June 2023
The launching of satellites, while still contributing to national prestige, is a significant economic activity as well, with public and private rocket systems competing for launches, using cost and reliability as selling points. Replica of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957
TÜRKSAT 5B, Turkey's eighth communication satellite launched with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. US / European Union / Canada: James Webb Space Telescope: Earth-Sun L 2 point: Success: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA, ESA and CSA's joint project for a space telescope. It was launched on December 25 with Ariane 5 ECA rocket to Earth-Moon L 2 ...
Satellite First Launched Polity Sputnik 1: First satellite with radio transmitter [1] October 4, 1957 Soviet Union: Project SCORE: First communications satellite [1] First test of a space communications relay system First (recorded) voice transmission (U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower) December 18, 1958 United States: TIROS-1
This is a list of all the foreign satellites launched by India. India has launched 431 satellites for 34 countries as of 30 July 2023. [1] As of 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation, India's government space agency, is the only launch-capable agency in India, and launches all research and commercial projects.
Sputnik 1 (/ ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k, ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite.It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date.Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951.
The term "launching satellites" was coined in honor of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the USSR. [ 8 ] China successfully launched a sounding rocket in 1964 and the satellite Dong Fang Hong I in 1970.