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Artificial satellites and space probes in the 1970s Year Origin Name Target Status Description 1970 Japan: Ohsumi: Earth: Success: First Japanese satellite. Japan became the fourth nation after the USSR, USA and France to successfully put an artificial satellite into orbit on its own. West Germany: DIAL Earth Success Second German satellite.
Brazil had yet to launch a satellite into orbit independently and its space program suffered three satellite launch failures, the latest being the explosion of a VLS-1 rocket on 22 August 2003 at the Alcântara Launch Centre, which resulted in 21 deaths. [10]
Tanegashima Space Center Yoshinobu Launch Complex: 24 September 2019: Decay from orbit 27 April 2022 Sudan: Sudan Remote Sensing Satellite 1 : Sudan: ISRA: Long March 4B: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre LC-9: 3 November 2019 Ethiopia: Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite 1 : Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute
France was the third country to launch a satellite on its own rocket. On 26 November 1965, the Astérix or A-1 (initially conceptualized as FR.2 or FR-2), was put into orbit by a Diamant A rocket launched from the CIEES site at Hammaguir, Algeria. With Astérix, France became the sixth country to have an artificial satellite.
Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's orbit decayed.
Left to right: SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLV, LVM3 RLV Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV) Vikram series, the under development orbital class launch family of Skyroot Aerospace in comparison with already flown Vikram S, the sounding rocket ISRO/DoS systems. SLV-3 – Retired; Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV) – Retired; Polar Satellite Launch ...
4. More competition for SpaceX despite a direct line to the White House. Although SpaceX holds a dominant position in launch and satellite internet, 2025 will see competition emerge from several ...
The main mission of the Ohsumi satellite was to lead Japan’s testing of satellite launch technologies, with the goal of launching a rocket to deploy a satellite into orbit around the Earth. [13] The primary launch scheme developed during the launch trials was the “ gravity turn maneuver ,” which played a significant role in the final ...