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Launch vehicle evaluation, mass simulator: In orbit: Successful Maiden flight of Start-1 25 March 21:38 Atlas I: Cape Canaveral LC-36B: General Dynamics: UHF-1: US Navy: Geosynchronous Communications: In orbit: Launch failure Booster engine failure left spacecraft in useless orbit 26 March 02:21 Zenit-2: Baikonur Site 45/1: VKS Kosmos 2237 MO ...
Vanguard TV-3 was a small satellite designed to test the launch capabilities of the three-stage Vanguard and study the effects of the environment on a satellite and its systems in Earth orbit. It was also to be used to obtain geodetic measurements through orbit analysis. Solar cells on Vanguard TV-3 were manufactured by Bell Laboratories.
Launch Failure Upper stage failed to ignite for second burn due to blocked valve 21 February 12:34 Soyuz-U: Baikonur Site 1/5: Roskosmos Soyuz TM-23: Roskosmos Low Earth Mir EO-21: 2 September 07:41: Successful Crewed orbital flight with two cosmonauts 22 February 20:18 Space Shuttle Columbia: Kennedy LC-39B United Space Alliance STS-75: NASA ...
The Vanguard rocket [1] was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 led the U.S., after the failure of Vanguard TV-3, to quickly orbit the Explorer 1 satellite using a Juno I rocket, making Vanguard 1 the second successful U.S. orbital launch.
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EWS-G2 (Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary) [1] is a weather satellite of the U.S. Space Force, formerly GOES-15 (also known as GOES-P before becoming operational). The spacecraft was constructed by Boeing , and is the last of three GOES satellites to be based on the BSS-601 bus.
Elon Musk says he ‘guarantees excitement’ for lift off of world’s biggest ever rocket
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an ...