O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

The original design would become Sputnik 3, which, as [Scott] puts it, was the first Soviet satellite that “didn’t suck.” The first one was essentially a stunt, and the second one had an ...

Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

A Russian firm is working on an inflight connectivity system for the MC-21, Superjet and Tu-214 airliners based on LEO ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental ... Launched in 1989, COBE (or Cosmic Background Explorer) was the first satellite dedicated to cosmological study; it uncovered temperature ...

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

In response, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted to X, “Sputnik-like moments are ... outcompete America by launching the first-ever satellite into space.

Decades ago during the heady space race rivalry between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the entire world experienced the Sputnik moment when the first artificial satellite orbited ...