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

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the ...

The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United States and the Soviet Union, is one of the most defining ...

America won the ‘Space Race,’ but only after acknowledging that our schools were failing. We must do the same now.

Both nations endeavored to perfect their satellites and launch first, and on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into ...

In Washington’s policy circles, warnings about America’s declining space dominance have become a familiar refrain. Yet these concerns are not mere bureaucratic hand-wringing — they reflect a ...

Just a month later, on 3 November, the Soviet Union chalked up another iconic first, shooting Laika, the most famous of the Soviet space dogs, into orbit on the considerably larger Sputnik 2. She ...

What is Earth observation? What challenges can it help us to address? Euronews Tech Talks spoke with Jean-Christophe Gros, an ...

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 ...

Sputnik and its successors have altered the course of physics. Cadbury, D. Space Race: The Epic Battle between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (HarperCollins, New York ...