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 ...

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

Voyager 1: It was a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar ...

Laika, a Soviet dog, earned her place in history as the first living being to orbit Earth in 1957. Launched aboard Sputnik 2 ...

On November 3rd 1957 the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik II spacecraft into orbit. The satellite carried Laika the dog, who became the first living creature to orbit the planet. This is our ...

The satellite is in orbit. The launch of the first satellite, Sputnik in 1957 is shown. A group of Brownies try to spot the International Space Station as it passes over the UK. A demonstration ...

"The Sputnik satellite [in 1957] was a breakthrough and ... it's even being called upon to help the vaccine-strapped EU. Hungary was first to approve the Russian vaccine for emergency use and ...