Chinese Space News Marks 10th Consecutive Successful Launch of Long March Yesterday's ChinaStar-1 launch was the 52nd launch by Chinese Long March rocket and the fourth by a Long March 3B, the country's most powerful launch vehicle. Long March experienced 3 failures in 1995 and 1996. The successful launches in recent two years will undoubtely strengthen Long March's position in the competition of global launch market. The Long March 3B placed the 2984 kg ChinaStar-1 into an orbit of 201x85732km with 24.5 degree inclination. The Lockheed Martin built satellite has 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders. It will be finally placed into the geostationary orbit at 87.5 degrees East longitude by Lockheed Martin in next few days. Next in line will be the Sinosat-1 built by the French group, Aerospatiale, for an official Chinese client. That launch, also by a Long March 3B, is expected in July. [May 30, 1998] Long March 3B Successfully Launched ChinaStar-1 Long March 3B successfully launched ChinaStar-1 today, CCTV, the Chinese official television station announced today. This is the fourth launch and the third successful launch of Long March 3B, the most powerful rocket in China. Chinastar-1 was built by Lockheed Martin and will be operated by China Oriental Telecommunications. [May 29, 1998] APT Satellite Holdings See Revenue Growth Hong Kong Satellite operator APT Satellite Holdings sees revenue growth this year despite a reduction in the satellite transponder services in Asia due to the economic slowdown. The current leasing rate for the company's third satellite, Apstar-IIR, was now at 25 per cent. But it was expected to increase more than 50 per cent by the end of the year, APT chairman Xie Gao-Jue said. The group planned to launch Apstar V or one big satellite to replace Apstar I and Apstar IA, which run out in 2004 and 2006 respectively. APT Satellite was also negotiating with a mainland firm to develop a direct broadcast satellite system, though no decision has been reached. The group's current financial status was rated "healthy" on a gearing ratio of 42 per cent. Direct effects of the Asian currency crisis were said to be minimal as the firm's revenue is in US dollars. [May 24, 1998] AsiaSat 4 Launch Put on Hold Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings (AsiaSat) yesterday said it was postponing the launch of AsiaSat 4 due to a decrease in demand for telecommunication services from satellite transponders. "We will evaluate the project at the end of this year and hoped it can be launched in the year 2000,'' chief executive officer Peter Jackson said.
Littlefield Technologies is a firm that has developed Digital Satellite Systems (DSS) product that has a product life of 268 days. The company’s strategy is to produce the product as per order and when the company has enough cash to pay the suppliers. This means that the company only produces goods as soon as orders are made and when there is enough money to support the production. In order to make this strategy successful, the following criteria should be met:
Although many people could say that it would just be a waste of time because of the other military development failures, the national budget is shrinking. In the late 1990s, the U.S. government started work on a new type of spy satellite. The project cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars, but none of the satellites were built. The reason for t...
R7 was test launched 5 times before the Soviet scientists got it to reach it target hight. They replaced the heavy satellite they had with Sputnik. It was just over 83 kilograms. With that success they launched another one on October 1,1957 and achieving the record of the first man made satellite in space.This was not just a military advancement, it was a man's dream come true.
The United States and Russia wanted to prove they could frontier the next best thing space. Each eager to prove to the world they would be the first to engineer satellites into space (Britannica). Russia would be the first to accomplish this on October 4th, 1957 they launched the first satellite into earth’s atmosphere (History of the Cold War, 2017). Not to be out done the United State accomplished this feat as well a year later.
The American Civil War helped to save the nation by rejoining Union Confederate and as result of the Emancipation Proclamation, most African American slaves were declared freed men. However, during the American Reconstruction, the lack of political unity was still very apparent as the South saw Reconstruction as being defeated humiliatingly and thus sought vengeance through the slaves it had lose. Although many slaves did receive their freedom, Reconstruction caused an increase in the white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and laws such black codes/ Jim Crow laws/ sharecropping, which limited the rights freed slaves had. This unfortunately caused many of the freed slaves to be only marginally better off than before the Civil War and to still be under white control even after the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. Having a president that was formerly a slave owner and opposed the rights of freed men as well a weak central government that was in a state of disorder thus caused a failure to put an end to segregation and integrate freed African Americans into society; instead they were seen as second class citizens that had limited rights and were still discriminated even more harshly by bitter Southerners.
In 1957 the Soviets used a missile to launch a satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit around the earth. The arms race then became a space race as the United States rushed to launch its own satellites, some for military purposes.
There are currently over a thousand operating satellites currently orbiting earth. That’s over two times as many daily used buildings on IU Bloomington’s Campus according to the official website. While people born into and have lived on earth are accepting satellites as a regular object that they interact with in their daily lives. It hasn’t always been this way. When you look up the first satellite that launched into space you will find that the first was the Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957. Scroll three results down to read the NASA article,
Though he had been advised the mission would probably fail should he not postpone the launch date, it was actually exceedingly successful. On October 4th, 1957, the Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite placed in Earth’s orbit. In the wake of this Soviet success, America pushed forward the launch date of its own AS, but it was a ‘monumental’ failure. During its live national broadcast, the Project Vanguard rocket blew up seconds after launch and became an international joke. It’s failure hastened Von Braun’s Redstone team plans to launch their Jupiter-C rocket. Four months after Sputnik 1’s launch and under the ‘civilian’ name Juno 1 the Explorer 1 became the first successful American AS in
Impact on business – If Aerial is not launched, the market share of the company is expected to decline by 10% based on past trends, despite the fact that market for GPS products is growing. Hence, option of not launching Aerial would have an adverse impact on the business of TerraCog.
“A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture”(1). As stated by Mary Ann Bell it is often tempting to define memes by examples such as “Gangnam Style”(1). With the high demand to participate in social media the potential for a rise and spread in “ideas, trends, rumors, memes, or anything catchy”(1), is great. This phenomenon is called “going viral” and is rapidly occurring within our society. Whether these ideas, images, or trends are purposely leaked or an accident taken out of context, memes tend to have a virus-like effect on cultures(1).
Before anyone can give an opinion on this, the facts given must be said. For the past sixty or so years, the United States and Russia or the Soviet Union have had a unfriendly feel for each other because of cultural differences and this creates a competitive atmosphere. The Soviet Union in 1957“launched the first artificial earth satellite” called Sputnik. This gave the United States a scare even though the satellite was not very high tech. The satellite only made a repeating beep noise in outer space but because the Soviets did it first, people in the America were worried. The United States then began to try to get a satellite in space. The first attempt was failure in which the rocket blasted off a couple feet and fell back to the ground on fire. The Explorer 1 was the Americans first satellite to get into theatmosphere and orbit the earth on January 31, 1958 but the Russians launched another Sputnik into space with a living dog in it a couple months before. So the Russians had two satellites i...
On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union put the first satellite into space, by launching it with a ballistic missile. The satellite was named “Sputnik” which means “traveler” in Russian. It was only about the size of a basketball but weighed almost 200 pounds. The United States was caught off guard and it was scary to think that if the Soviets could launch a satellite with a ballistic missile, maybe they could be could launch a warhead into space.
The United States felt threatened by the USSR’s unexpected technological advancement. Not only was Sputnik I 180.4 lbs heavier than Vanguard, but it was proven to be more successful when the Vanguard launch failed on December 6, 1957 while being broadcast worldwide. Although America’s first attempt at competing with the Soviet Union’s technology was an utter failure, the US government didn’t let this deter them from their goal to equalize the country with the Soviets and eventually surpass them. Right after Sputnik I was launched, the US Defense Department decided on funding for a new satellite project while Vanguard was still being worked on. This satellite was named the Explorer I and was successfully launched on January 31, 1958, officially
On october 4,1957, the Soviet Union dispatched their first artificial satellite known as Sputnik 1 into orbit. This was the first event that started and caused the Space Race. The Sputnik 1 was only approximately 23.0 inches in diameter and was not capable of holding any passengers. The satellite was put into orbit for almost an entire 92 days. It has completed a successful 1440 orbits around Earth traveling at a rate of 18,000 miles per hour which took the satellite about 96 munities to successfully go through each orbit.. Also, with the satellite being only about twenty three inches in diameter the launch mass was only measured at 83.60. It also had the capability to transmit frequencies signals at a rate of 20 and 40