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Launched on the same rocket as the first Ugandan satellite Albania: Albania-1 State Authority for Geospatial Information: Satellogic: Falcon 9: Cape Canaveral SLC-40: 3 January 2023 First Albanian satellites, launched as a pair Albania-2 Vatican City Italy: SpeiSat Dicastery for Communication/ASI: ASI Falcon 9: Vandenberg SLC-4E: 12 June 2023
The launching of satellites, while still contributing to national prestige, is a significant economic activity as well, with public and private rocket systems competing for launches, using cost and reliability as selling points. Replica of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957
This timeline of artificial satellites and space probes includes uncrewed spacecraft including technology demonstrators, observatories, lunar probes, and interplanetary probes. First satellites from each country are included. Not included are most Earth science satellites, commercial satellites or crewed missions.
First satellite designed and constructed by a country other than the USA or USSR (the British satellite Ariel 1, launched five months earlier, was designed and constructed by the USA). [62] Canada 29 September 1962 Venus: Mariner 2: First planetary flyby with communication contact. Distance of 34,762 kilometres (21,600 mi). USA 14 December 1962 ...
The following chart shows the number of launch systems developed in each country, and broken down by operational status. Rocket variants are not distinguished; i.e., the Atlas V series is only counted once for all its configurations 401–431, 501–551, 552, and N22.
This is composed of launch vehicles, and other conventional systems, used to place satellites into orbit. Argentina. ORBIT II – Retired [1]
Samples of three GPS satellites' orbits over a five-year period (2013 to 2018) USA-242 · USA-239 · USA-151 · Earth As of 19 December 2024, 83 Global Positioning System navigation satellites have been built: 30 are launched and operational, 1 is launched and undergoing the commissioning process, 3 are in reserve or testing, 43 are retired, 2 were lost during launch, and 1 prototype was never ...
Satellite First Launched Polity Sputnik 1: First satellite with radio transmitter [1] October 4, 1957 Soviet Union: Project SCORE: First communications satellite [1] First test of a space communications relay system First (recorded) voice transmission (U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower) December 18, 1958 United States: TIROS-1