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In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first human-made satellite. Although it was only the size of a basketball, the idea of a communist spaceship orbiting Earth sent a shudder from one end of the Free World to the other. Sputnik could have easily been a nuc...
Who invented the first satellite in the world? Who invented the first calendar? Who made the first computer in India? Where was the first camera invented? Who invented paper? Who invented the first record player? Who invented the first intelligence test?
"It felt like a duty for me, for my country. Even if I am far away, I still have a duty to my country. I want to see a better Kenya, my home country becoming developed, industrialised and an end to corruption," he recently told the BBC. The implication of Ada...
Group 13,a group of twenty-three NASA astronauts,and became an astronaut a year later.Her first spaceflight was aboard Discovery as a mission specialist and lasted nine days,in which the five-person crew conducted scientific experiments and deployed a research satellite to study the solar corona....
In 1957 the USSR successfully launched the world’s first satellite into orbit, a move that is widely seen as marking the start of an era in which these two global powers battled for technological supremacy. This was reflected in the foundation of new U.S. government programs such as the ...
The wireless telegraph developed by Marconi, Tesla and others was a far cry from the radio broadcasts we tune into today. So what happened between when the first radio signal was sent out to the proliferation of radio stations we have today? To transmit signals more complicated than morse cod...
Preserving Madagascar’s biodiversity using satellite imagery Naturevolution uses Airbus SPOT satellite imagery to protect biodiversity in Madagascar’s Makay Massif. Cryosat-2 and Copernicus satellites: unlocking climate action Airbus-built Copernicus Sentinel satellites and CryoSat-2 measure the speed of ...
Focus on the first two minutes to build a habit. It might stay a habit or it might move into who you are and become a passion. • Starting & Building new habits: Obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying; consistency through adaptability; “walk with the wise”. Atomic Habits – in theory...
Dr. Getting proposed a three-dimensional, time-difference-of-arrival position-finding system for navigation and byhis own admission, “one of the proposals put forth by The Aerospace Corporation… was essentially what is now the GPS.” While acknowledging that the Navy had already developed a ver...