Spacecraft launched in 1960

Soviet artificial satellite, first to send animals into orbit and return safely

Soviet test flight

TIROS-1 (or TIROS-A) was the first operational weather satellite, the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites (TIROS) placed in low Earth orbit.

American space probe

test flight of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft

space mission

first passive communications satellite experiment

American research satellite

communications satellite

soviet Union Mars spacecraft

soviet Mars spacecraft

lunar spacecraft which was destroyed in a launch accident

lunar mission

lunar orbiter probe which failed to be launched

failed lunar orbiter probe

TIROS-2 (or TIROS-B) was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the second in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites. It re-entered in May 2014.

reconnaissance satellite

U.S. solar X-ray and surveillance satellite

reconnaissance satellite

American military reconnaissance satellite

NASA satellite of the Explorer program

reconnaissance satellite

American military reconnaissance satellite

reconnaissance satellite

reconnaissance satellite

American military reconnaissance satellite

American military reconnaissance satellite

reconnaissance satellite

US satellite launched in 1960

reconnaissance satellite