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

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit. Or was it? For over a hundred ...

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 ...

An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army on Jan. 31, 1958. Nevertheless, despite setbacks, Vanguard 1 did reach orbit ...

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 ...

In October, the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik I. It was followed in November by the spacecraft Sputnik 2, which carried Laika, the first animal to orbit the Earth. In ...

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 ...

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. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on ...

Mars Science Laboratory (the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers); and Earth's first-ever artificial satellite, the Soviet-era Sputnik. Related: Sputnik: The space race's opening shot Chop Shop is ...

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