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Name Launch vehicle Status Description Mass 1957 October 4 Soviet Union: Sputnik 1: Sputnik-PS: Success: The first human-made object to orbit Earth. 83.6 kg (183.9 lb) November 3 Soviet Union: Sputnik 2: Sputnik-PS: Success: The first satellite to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. 508 kg (1,118 lb) December 6 US: Vanguard 1A: Vanguard ...
Similar to NASA's GOES satellites. ICESat-2: Active NASA 2018 Measures ice sheet height changes for climate change diagnoses. [16] [17] IMS-1: Active ISRO: 2008 ISS: Active NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA: 1998 The International Space Station (ISS) has long been used as a central satellite platform for other sensors, including Earth ...
NASA satellites orbiting Earth (3 C, 29 P) P. Proposed NASA satellites (3 P) T. TDRS satellites (14 P) Pages in category "NASA satellites" The following 39 pages are ...
First satellite to transmit television images from space (weather) April 1, 1960 United States: Echo 1: First passive reflector communications satellite: August 12, 1960 United States: Courier 1B: First active repeater communications satellite First communications satellite powered by solar cells to recharge storage batteries: October 4, 1960 ...
NASA satellites orbiting Earth (3 C, 29 P) V. Satellites in very low Earth orbit (2 P) ... Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite; Nigeria EduSat-1; NOAA-20; Noor ...
Four Great Observatories. NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were built with different technology to examine specific wavelength/energy regions of the electromagnetic spectrum: gamma rays, X-rays, visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light.
Pages in category "Lists of satellites" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... List of artificial objects in heliocentric orbit; I.
It was found by Peter Berrett, who participates in the NASA funded Sungrazer project. [88] PSP-001 was discovered in images from 29 May 2022, part of the spacecraft's 12th approach to the Sun. Since this discovery, a further 19 sungrazing comets have been discovered in the images taken by the Parker Solar Probe, including three non-group comets.