Echo, a silvery balloon that orbited Earth every 114 minutes, was launched August 12, 1960 by NASA. It was a passive satellite that reflected radio signals back to Earth. Echo 2 was launched January 1964. Relay I was NASA's first active experimental satellite and was launched December 13...
Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle is the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered more than 190 satellites to orbit for commercial and Government partners, including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, DARPA and the NRO. Rocket Lab also delivers proven suborbital...
Since the first satellite was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, over 5,000 satellites launches have taken place for a variety of objectives. Earth observation satellites are used for both civilian and military purposes, playing a crucial role in activities such as monitoring the earth’s ...
On Feb. 3, 2022, aSpaceXFalcon 9 rocket made a routine and successful launch of49 Starlink satellitesfrom NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But only a day later, a geomagnetic storm above Earth pushed up the density of the atmosphere, increasing the drag on the satellites anddooming...
First launched in 1975,the data from GOES series has been used to create detailed images of weather systems and track the development and movement of storms. NASA estimates the satellites have taken over 3 million images of Earth so far, providing stunning images of hurricanes and severe storms...
Fast forward to present day, and a new generation of satellites, built and launched by NASA and operated by NOAA, provide remarkable advances in technology for monitoring Earth’s weather, oceans and environment. GOES-16 and GOES-17, the latest in the series, have three times more channels,...
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She just launched. Didn't you see it? Have a safe trip, Lucy. You named the satellite Lucy? How? Right, because satellites don't have names like Lucy. And if they do have names, well, then you know it's usually a scientific name. No, NASA named her Lucy, Guy Raz. What? NA...
ThePREFIREmission, short for Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment, is the brainchild of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA. This project involves two small satellites, each about the size of a shoebox, one of which was launched into orbit on Saturday, an...
NASA went on to do pioneering work in space applications, such as communications satellites, in the 1960s. The Echo, Telstar, Relay, and Syncom satellites were built by NASA or by the private sector based on significant NASA advances.