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Sputnik 1 (/ ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k, ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite.It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
Formerly part of the Soviet Union, Launched on same rocket as first Slovakian satellite Slovakia: skCUBE: SOSA: SOSA: Formerly part of Czechoslovakia, Launched on same rocket as first Latvian satellite Angola: AngoSat 1: AngoSat: RSC Energia: Zenit-3F / Fregat-SB: Baikonur: 26 December 2017: Launch was successful but contact was lost quickly ...
Amazônia-1 is the first Earth observation satellite developed by Brazil, helped by Argentina's INVAP, who provided the main computer, attitude controls and sensors, and the training of Brazilian engineers,[8] and launched at 04:54:00 UTC (10:24:00 IST) on 28 February 2021.
Italy with the first successful launch from the San Marco platform of its satellite San Marco 2 on 26 April 1967 by US Scout B (the first Italian satellite is San Marco 1 launched by another Scout from Wallops, USA on 15 December 1964). The last orbital launch from San Marco was on 25 March 1988 by US Scout G-1 and there are no further launches ...
[a] The first successful large-scale rocket programs were initiated in Nazi Germany by Wernher von Braun. The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race, launching the first satellite, [1] the first animal, [2]: 155 the first human [3] and the first woman [4] into orbit. The United States landed the first men on the Moon in 1969 ...
The launch spurred a series of US initiatives [17] ranging from defense to education. Increased emphasis was placed on the US Navy's Project Vanguard to launch an American satellite into orbit. There was a renewed interest in the existing Explorer program, which launched the first American satellite into orbit on January 31, 1958. [18]
First amateur radio satellite First satellite ejected into orbit as a secondary launch payload: December 12, 1961 United States: Telstar 1: First active, direct-relay communications satellite First satellite to relay television, telephone and high-speed data communications First transatlantic television [1] July 10, 1962 United States: Relay 1
The message recorded of Eisenhower.. SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided the second test of a communications relay system in space (the first having been provided by the USAF/NASA's Pioneer 1), [3] the first broadcast of a human voice ...