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Launch of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory satellite 1992 US: Mars Observer: Mars: Failure: Mars Observer orbiter 1993 Japan: ASCA: Earth: Success: Launch of the ASCA (ASTRO-D) X-ray satellite Brazil: INPE: Earth: Success: Launch of the SCD-1, the oldest earth observation equipment still in operation. 1994 US: Clementine: Moon: Success
The launch of Explorer 6 Universal newsreel about the launch of Explorer 6. Explorer 6, or S-2, was a NASA satellite, launched on 7 August 1959, at 14:24:20 GMT.It was a small, spherical satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation in the upper atmosphere, and the flux of micrometeorites.
Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on July 10, 1962. One of the earliest communications satellites, it was the first satellite to achieve live transmission of broadcast television images between the United States and Europe.
Four follow-up satellites of the Explorer series were launched by the Juno I launch vehicle in 1958, of these, Explorer 3 and 4 were successful, while Explorer 2 and 5 failed to reach orbit. The final flight of the Juno I booster, the satellite Beacon-1, also failed. [22] The Juno I vehicle was replaced by the Juno II launch vehicle in 1959.
10 July 1962 – Telstar 1, the first satellite to be used commercially, is launched on the first commercially sponsored space launch, aboard a Thor-Delta rocket. [ 2 ] 31 August 1962 – President John F. Kennedy signs the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 providing the regulatory framework for private companies in the United States to own ...
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
In the early 1950s, there was a challenge to launch an artificial satellite for the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). An effort for this was the American Project Vanguard . After the Soviet space program launched the world's first artificial satellite ( Sputnik 1 ) on October 4, 1957, the United States stepped up its own efforts.
Vanguard 1 (Harvard designation: 1958-Beta 2, [3] COSPAR ID: 1958-002B [1]) is an American satellite that was the fourth artificial Earth-orbiting satellite to be successfully launched, following Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Explorer 1. It was launched 17 March 1958. Vanguard 1 was the first satellite to have solar electric power. [4]