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Artificial satellites and space probes in the 2020s Year Origin Name Target Status Description 2020 Turkey: TÜRKSAT 5A: Earth: Success: TÜRKSAT 5A, Turkey's seventh communication satellite launched with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. European Union: SolO: Sun: En route: Solar Orbiter is an ESA's Sun-observing satellite. [23] [24] [25] US: Mars ...
According to Barry Navidi, around 2012, him and Al Pacino were discussing the project, with the idea of Depp still playing the role of Modigliani. However, they did not manage to make it happen due to Depp’s busy schedule at the time. Pacino first contacted Johnny Depp to ask him to direct the film before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. [5]
makes first discussion of geostationary satellites as a means of communication. UK Arthur C. Clarke: 10 May 1946: First space research flight (cosmic radiation experiments). United States captured and improved V-2 rocket 24 October 1946: First pictures of Earth from 105 km (65 mi). United States V-2 [4] [5] 20 February 1947 First animals in ...
Budget. $10.5 million. Box office. $146 million. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and it was inspired by multiple short stories written by Clarke, including his 1951 short story "The Sentinel".
Earth Observing System. The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans. Since the early 1970s, NASA has been developing its Earth Observing System ...
In 1960 the British Space Development Company, a consortium of thirteen large industrial companies, was set up by Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick to plan the world's first commercial communication satellite company, Renwick becoming the executive director. With Blue Streak, Britain had the technology to make it possible, but the idea was ...
Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1 (/ ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1) 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. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc ...
Gladys West. Gladys Mae West (née Brown; born October 27, 1930 [1]) is an American mathematician. She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, that were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS). [2]