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'Salute 1'), also known as DOS-1 (Durable Orbital Station 1), was the world's first space station. It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program subsequently achieved five more successful launches of seven additional stations.
The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS. [2]
' peace ' or ' world ') was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996.
Skylab (1973–1974), the first U.S. space station and second overall. In 1971, the Soviet Union developed and launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. [7] The Almaz and Salyut series were eventually joined by Skylab, Mir, and Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. The hardware developed during the initial Soviet efforts remains in use, with ...
Earth: R-1V [59] First dogs in space (suborbital flight). Successfully recovered. USSR 22 July 1951 Earth: Sputnik 1: First satellite in orbit. [5] USSR 4 October 1957 Earth: Sputnik 2: First animal in orbit, Laika, a dog. USSR 3 November 1957 Earth: Vanguard 1: Oldest satellite still in orbit, in addition to its upper launch stage. Expected to ...
First commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit [1] April 6, 1965 United States: Orbita: First national TV network based on satellite television: November 1967 Soviet Union: Nimbus 3: First satellite-based search and rescue system First satellite to locate and command remote weather stations to transmit data back to satellite ...
Stability means that satellites in DRO do not need to use station keeping propellant to stay in orbit. The lunar DRO is a high lunar orbit with a radius of approximately 61,500 km. [24] This was proposed [by whom?] in 2017 as a possible orbit for the Lunar Gateway space station, outside Earth-Moon L1 and L2. [20]
PROBA-1 Small satellite to observe the Earth (first Belgian Satellite) 2003 Canada: MOST: Earth: Success: MOST the smallest space telescope in orbit. Turkey: BİLSAT: Earth: Success: BİLSAT, Turkey's first earth observation satellite: 2002 US: CONTOUR: Comet Encke: Failure: CONTOUR launched, but lost during early trajectory insertion. Europe ...