Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Artificial satellites and space probes in the 1950s Year Date Origin 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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Objects intentionally placed into orbit This article is about human-made satellites. For moons, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). Two CubeSats orbiting around Earth after being deployed from the ISS Kibō module's Small Satellite Orbital Deployer A ...
now part of EADS Astrium Satellites: Dhruva Space [6] India Nano Satellites (>8 to <35 kg) GomSpace [7] Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden Nano and Micro Satellites (1 to 50 kg) for global tracking, Earth observation and science, communications, constellations, Internet-of-Things, defence and security, and deep-space missions. Hera Systems United States 1
Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) – Operational; Nano Satellite Launch Vehicle (NSLV) – Under development; Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV) – Under development [8] [9] Private agencies. Vikram (rocket family) (Skyroot Aerospace): Vikram I – Under Development; Vikram II – Proposed; Vikram III – Proposed; Agnibaan
Starship Block 2 Ship 33 IFT-7+10 Starlink simulators 220,000 kg (485,017 lb) [6] Mass is a rough estimate, including 100 tons of remaining propellant and Starlink simulator satellites weighing 20 tonnes. [6] Transatmospheric: Lost: 2025–2025 Mir: 129,700 kg (285,940 lb) Soviet / Russian space station: LEO: Deorbited 2001: 1986–2001
While Sputnik 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth, other human-made objects had previously reached an altitude of 100 km, which is the height required by the international organization Fédération Aéronautique Internationale to count as a spaceflight. This altitude is called the Kármán line.
Sputnik 1. Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite" [1]) is a name for multiple spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program."Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, and the remaining designations in the series ("Sputnik 4" and so on) were not official names but names applied in the West to objects whose original Soviet names may ...
Fifth GPS Block III satellite, named Neil Armstrong: USA-320: 2022-01-13 2022-002CV Falcon 9 Block 5: Unknown Launched with USA-321, USA-322 and USA-323 on Transporter 3 Rideshare Launch. Likely the satellites were built by SpaceX based on the Starshield bus (based on Starlink Block v1.5 technology), were deployed by the US army.