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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 ...
First Canadian satellite (on American rocket), first satellite not constructed by the US or USSR October 2 US: Explorer 14 (EPE-B) Thor-Delta A: Earth Success NASA spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields. October 18 US: Ranger 5: Atlas ...
Oldest artificial satellite in orbit, along with its upper stage. Explorer 3: United States: 26 March 1958: U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency: Decayed 28 June 1958. Vanguard TV-5: United States: 29 April 1958: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory: Failed to orbit. Sputnik 3: Soviet Union: 15 May 1958: Korolev Design Bureau: Decayed 6 April 1960 ...
1960 TIROS-1: First television image of Earth from space and first weather satellite picture. [22] August 18, 1960 CORONA "First space-based Earth observation system"; [23] its first successful mission was Discoverer 14 on 19 August 1960 with the recovery of photographic film from an orbiting satellite. [23] [24]
Jersey's first four satellites were launched together. Jersey is a Crown Dependency of the British sovereign France Qatar: Eutelsat 25B / Es'hail 1: Eutelsat Es'hailSat: SS/Loral: Ariane 5ECA: Kourou: 29 August 2013: Qatar's first satellite flew as a joint project with the French corporation Eutelsat Qatar: Es'hail 1: Es'hailSat: SS/Loral ...
Project Echo was the first passive communications satellite experiment. Each of the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive reflectors of microwave signals.
[13] [clarification needed] (An experimental passive satellite, Echo 1, had been used to reflect and redirect communications signals two years earlier, in 1960.) In August 1962, Telstar 1 became the first satellite used to synchronize time between two continents, bringing the United Kingdom and the United States to within 1 microsecond of each ...
Courier 1B, is the world's first active repeater communications satellite, Courier 1B was successfully launched on October 4, 1960 at 17:45:00 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first Courier satellite in Project Courier, Courier 1A, was lost 2.5 minutes after lift-off on August 18, 1960.