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United States: Iridium 1: First satellite for satellite telephone service: May 5, 1997 United States: AO-40: First satellite to use GPS for navigation and attitude determination in High Earth orbit [3] [4] November 16, 2000 Germany United States: Artemis: First demonstration of inter-satellite laser communication [5] November 21, 2001 ...
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The mission followed the first two satellites, both launched by the Soviet Union during the previous year, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2. This began a Space Race during the Cold War between the ...
The race to launch the first satellite was closely contested by the Soviet Union and the United States, and was the beginning of the Space Race. 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 ...
Satellite Operator Manufacturer Carrier rocket [1] Launch site [1] Date (UTC) [1] Remarks Soviet Union: Sputnik 1 [2] OKB-1: OKB-1: Sputnik 8K71PS: Baikonur: 4 October 1957: First satellite launched United States: Explorer 1 [3] ABMA: JPL: Juno I RS-29: Cape Canaveral: 1 February 1958 United Kingdom: Ariel 1 [4] RAE: NASA / SERC: Thor DM-19 ...
First Canadian satellite (on American rocket), first satellite not constructed by the US or USSR October 2 US: Explorer 14 (EPE-B) Thor-Delta A: Earth Success NASA spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields. October 18 US: Ranger 5: Atlas ...
AT+T Telstar 1 test (first satellite TV broadcast, July 11 1962) The first public satellite television signals from Europe to North America were relayed via the Telstar satellite over the Atlantic ocean on 23 July 1962, although a test broadcast had taken place almost two weeks earlier on 11 July. [45]
The message recorded of Eisenhower.. SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided the second test of a communications relay system in space (the first having been provided by the USAF/NASA's Pioneer 1), [3] the first broadcast of a human voice ...
ABS-CBN also made breakthroughs in the TV industry by achieving the country's first color TV broadcast, first satellite feed broadcasts (during remarkable events including the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the collapse of Ruby Tower in Manila during the 1968 Casiguran earthquake, assassination and funeral of Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 United ...