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

The only Chinese winner was physicist Pan Jian-Wei, the main architect of the world’s first quantum-communications space satellite, also called Micius.

From Nature • Apr. 28, 2019

And satellite evidence suggests North Korea has begun dismantling a test site where it has developed missile technologies and launched space satellite missions.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2018

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

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