Launched in 1958 and silent since the Johnson era, Vanguard 1 is the oldest human-made satellite still orbiting Earth — and a ...

In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.

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

A team of scientists is developing plans to return to Earth the American Vanguard-1 satellite, which spent 67 years in space. Vanguard-1, which is the size of a grapefruit, was launched in March 1958 ...

As the United States waited for Vanguard to re-launch, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency launched Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, on January 31, 1958 (see "Then & Now,"). Chris Hagen ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The satellite Vanguard 1, launched on March 17, 1958, became the oldest man-made satellite still orbiting Earth. After 67 years in space, a group of scientists, aerospace engineers ...

Vanguard 1 is less than the size of a basketball and even led Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to call it as “the grapefruit satellite.” As it was powered by six matchbox-sized solar panels ...

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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 ...