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Joint satellite between the Italian Space Agency and the Vatican Dicastery for Communication Oman: AMAN-1 ETCO SatRev: Falcon 9: Vandenberg SLC-4E: 11 November 2023 Launched on the same rocket as the first Djiboutian satellite Djibouti: Djibouti-1A University of Djibouti: University of Montpellier: Launched on the same rocket as the first Omani ...
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
Launched on 27 February 2025 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle with Brokkr-2 and IM-2. USA: Brokkr-2: 2022 OB5: Failure Asteroid flyby of a near-Earth asteroid and determine if the asteroid is metallic. [37] Launched on 27 February 2025 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle with Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2.
Part of the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) program. NOAA-20: Active NASA and NOAA: 2017 Part of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program. Oceansat-2: Active ISRO: 2009 OCO-2: Active NASA 2014 Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2. Part of the A-Train. The second precise carbon dioxide observing satellite after GOSAT. PACE ...
A satellite developed by China and France, the most powerful yet for studying the farthest explosion of stars, was launched into orbit on Saturday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. The ...
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
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite of Earth in the history of humankind. Explorer 1 satellite, the third Satellite put into orbit, and the first by NASA. On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the second satellite, Sputnik 2, and the first to carry a living animal into orbit, a dog ...
SpaceX on Wednesday launched an inaugural batch of operational spy satellites it built as part of a new U.S. intelligence network designed to significantly upgrade the country's space-based ...