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2012 Event - The launch of a space satellite into space by North Korea is disputed by South Korean defense ministry, who claim it was a disguised test of a 10,000 km range missile

2012 Event - The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test

2012 Event - In a gesture to honor North Korean founder Kim II-Sung's birthday in April, North Korea plans to launch a new satellite that reportedly will be used to study crops and natural resources

2011 Event - The Tiangong 1 space laboratory announces it has scheduled to launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gansu Province

2011 Event - Russia began searching for a missing military satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit

2009 Event - A large amount of space debris is created when a Russan and American satellite collide over Siberia

2009 Event - Iran launches first domestically made satellite, Omid, into orbit

2008 Event - U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile

1997 Event - Telstar 401 Satellite Fails

1992 Event - Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched

1992 Event - India launches its 1st satellite independently

1990 Death - Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37

1989 Event - World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens

1988 Event - Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite

1988 Event - Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1987 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite

1985 Event - Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit

1984 Event - Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit

1984 Event - Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage

1984 Event - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe

1984 Event - Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair

1984 Event - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle

1984 Event - Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit

1983 Event - 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle

1983 Event - European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10

1983 Event - Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)

1983 Event - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California

1983 Event - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit

1983 Event - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1982 Event - Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched

1981 Event - India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched

1981 Event - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)

1980 Event - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

1979 Event - Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)

1979 Event - Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched

1979 Event - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter

1979 Event - Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km)

1979 Event - Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched

1978 Event - Tiros N, U.S.'s 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched

1978 Event - U.S. Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

1978 Event - First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

1978 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite

1977 Event - European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral

1975 Event - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays

1975 Event - India launches 1st satellite with help of U.S.S.R.

1975 Event - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched

1974 Event - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter

1974 Event - Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg

1974 Event - NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)

1973 Event - Intelsat communications satellite launched

1973 Event - Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit

1972 Event - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays

1972 Event - 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched

1971 Event - England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit

1971 Event - U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft

1971 Event - U.S. Mariner 9, 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched

1970 Event - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays

1970 Event - China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"

1970 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 52 and Molniya 1-13 communications satellite

1970 Event - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit

1970 Event - Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif)

1970 Event - U.S. launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1

1969 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite

1969 Event - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched

1968 Event - 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy

1968 Event - Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (o 450 m)

1968 Event - European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite

1966 Event - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus

1966 Event - 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2

1966 Event - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched

1966 Event - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit

1966 Event - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched U.S.

1965 Event - 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space

1965 Event - France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)

1965 Event - 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite

1965 Event - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

1965 Event - Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite

1965 Event - Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite

1965 Event - Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control

1965 Event - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite

1965 Event - U.S. launches TIROS 9 weather satellite

1964 Event - U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched

1964 Event - Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched

1964 Event - Echo 2, U.S. communications satellite launched

1963 Event - U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

1963 Event - U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1

1962 Event - Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched

1962 Event - Relay 1 communication satellite launched

1962 Event - Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on U.S. Delta rocket)

1962 Event - Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched

1962 Event - 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)

1962 Event - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

1962 Event - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit

1962 Event - MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA

1962 Event - 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched

1962 Event - Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral

1962 Event - Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)

1961 Event - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36

1961 Death - P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies

1961 Event - U.S. satellite Explorer 9 is launched

1961 Event - USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights

1960 Event - Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched

1960 Event - Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit

1960 Event - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

1960 Event - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched

1960 Event - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched

1960 Event - 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed

1960 Event - Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit

1960 Event - 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)

1960 Event - RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched

1959 Event - Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit

1959 Event - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit

1959 Event - Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)

1959 Event - 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg

1958 Event - Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV

1958 Event - U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"

1958 Event - 1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched

1958 Event - U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1

1957 Event - 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up

1957 Event - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3

1957 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite

1956 Event - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0

1951 Event - S. B. Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter

1949 Event - Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)

1948 Event - U.S. announced a study to launch an Earth satellite

1908 Event - Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte

1905 Event - Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara

1905 Event - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine

1877 Event - Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)

1857 Birthday - Edward Emerson Barnard, born in Tennessee, astronomer, Jupiter's 5th satellite

1789 Event - William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn

1686 Event - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus

1672 Event - Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn

1671 Event - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn

1655 Event - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)

1610 Event - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

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