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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 ...
Explorer 1 was the first of the long-running Explorers program. Four follow-up satellites of the Explorer series were launched by the Juno I launch vehicle in 1958. Of these, Explorer 3 and 4 were successful, while Explorer 2 and 5 failed to reach orbit. The final flight of the Juno I booster, the satellite Beacon-1, also failed. [22]
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 ...
Mission name Ref(s). 4 October 1957: First artificial satellite. First human-made signals from space. USSR Sputnik 1: 3 November 1957: First mammal in orbit, the dog Laika. USSR Sputnik 2: 31 January 1958: Confirmed existence of the Van Allen radiation belt. USA Explorer 1: 17 March 1958: First use of solar power in space.
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 ...
In the early 1950s, there was a challenge to launch an artificial satellite for the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). An effort for this was the American Project Vanguard . After the Soviet space program launched the world's first artificial satellite ( Sputnik 1 ) on October 4, 1957, the United States stepped up its own efforts.
In Fly Me to the Moon, launching in theaters July 12, a Nixon White House aide (Woody Harrelson) sends NYC ad executive Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...
On 17 March 1958, Vanguard 1 became the second artificial satellite successfully placed in a low Earth orbit by the United States. It was the first solar-powered satellite. Just 15.2 cm (6.0 in) in diameter and weighing 1.4 kg (3.1 lb), Vanguard 1 was described by then- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as, "The grapefruit satellite". [ 3 ]