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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 point. 2022 US: CAPSTONE: Near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) of Moon: Operational
After the success of TIROS-1 and ATS-3, NASA in conjunction with United States Geological Survey (USGS), progressed forward in Earth observation through a series of Landsat satellites launched throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Nimbus 5 satellite launched in 1972 used passive microwave imaging; a highly successful method to observe changes in ...
NASA 2011 Part of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program. SWOT: Active NASA: 2022 TanDEM-X: Active DLR: 2010 Terra: Active NASA 1999 Carries five instruments to observe the state of the atmosphere, land, and oceans, as well as their interactions with solar radiation and with one another. [23] TerraSAR-X: Active DLR: 2007 THEOS: Active ...
Telstar was not a NASA program but rather a commercial communication satellite project. NASA's contributions to it were limited to launch services, as well as tracking and telemetry duties. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 was launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962.
The space agency confirmed Thursday that a 20-foot segment of the Challenger was discovered earlier this year off the Florida coast by divers who were searching for wreckage of missing World War ...
NASA: Low Earth Satellite deployment: 9 April 18:53: Successful TDRS-1 NASA Geostationary: Communications: In orbit: Operational Crewed orbital flight with four astronauts; Maiden flight of Space Shuttle Challenger: 15 April 18:45 Titan 24B: Vandenberg SLC-4W: OPS-2925 NRO Sun-synchronous Reconnaissance: 21 August: Successful 20 April 13:10 Soyuz-U
30 July 2022 [9] 6 days Uncontrolled 24 July 2022 Long March 5B core (5B-Y4 flight) China: 21,600 kg (47,600 lb) 4 November 2022 [10] 4 days Uncontrolled 31 October 2022 Cosmos 557: USSR: 19,400 kg (42,800 lb) 22 May 1973: 11 days: Uncontrolled: 11 May 1973 Salyut 5: USSR: 19,000 kg (42,000 lb) 8 August 1977: 1 year 2 months: Controlled: 2 June ...
11 July 2022: JWST has completed its commissioning activities and is ready to begin full scientific operations. 12 July 2022: JWST's first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.