space satellite
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Space Command to President John Kennedy’s call to action after the Soviet Union started the space race with Sputnik, the first space satellite launched in 1957, and with 1961’s first manned trip into space.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2019
Pan was the main architect of the world’s first quantum-communications space satellite, also called Micius, after an ancient Chinese philosopher.
From Nature • Apr. 28, 2019
In 2004, Held began his PhD in robotics at the University of Sydney, and eventually founded the university’s space engineering laboratory, where he led a space satellite project and worked on rocket engines.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2017
In 1947, 10 years before the first space satellite was launched, Clarke worked out that a satellite 23,000 miles above the equator would stay stationary in the sky.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2014
They didn't know what we were up to, but they decided to put a stop to it, so they dropped an abandoned space satellite on it.
From Fifty Per Cent Prophet by Garrett, Randall
