Republic of the Philippines

Bulacan Agricultural State College

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED TECHNOLOGY
Pinaod, San Ildefonso, Bulacan

Satellite Geodesy
GENG 162

ASSIGNMENT #

SUBMITTED BY
VENTURINA, Ariel Y.

SUBMITTED TO
ENGR. MARCHEL ANTHONY V. CO

DATE
MARCH 07, 2019
 Date Country or
Event Details
accomplished Agency
first artificial Earth
Oct. 4, 1957 Sputnik 1 U.S.S.R.
satellite

first animal launched into

Nov. 3, 1957 dog Laika aboard Sputnik 2 U.S.S.R.
space

first spacecraft to hard-

Sept. 14, 1959 land on another celestial Luna 2 U.S.S.R.
object (the Moon)

first pictures of the far side

Oct. 7, 1959 Luna 3 U.S.S.R.
of the Moon

first applications satellite

April 1, 1960 TIROS 1 (weather observation) U.S.
launched

Discoverer 13 (part of Corona

first recovery of a payload
Aug. 11, 1960 reconnaissance satellite U.S.
from Earth orbit
program)

April 12, 1961 first human to orbit Earth Yury Gagarin on Vostok 1 U.S.S.R.

first data returned from

Dec. 14, 1962 Mariner 2 U.S.
another planet (Venus)

Valentina
June 16, 1963 first woman in space U.S.S.R.
Tereshkovaon Vostok 6

first satellite to operate Syncom 2 (telecommunications

July 26, 1963 U.S.
in geostationary orbit satellite)

March 18, 1965 first space walk Aleksey Leonov on Voskhod 2 U.S.S.R.

first spacecraft pictures

July 14, 1965 Mariner 4 U.S.
of Mars

first spacecraft to soft-land

Feb. 3, 1966 Luna 9 U.S.S.R.
on the Moon

first death during a space

April 24, 1967 Vladimir Komarov on Soyuz 1 U.S.S.R.
mission

first humans to orbit the Frank Borman, James Lovell,

Dec. 24, 1968 U.S.
Moon and William Anders on Apollo 8

first human to walk on the

July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 U.S.
Moon

first return of lunar

Sept. 24, 1970 samples by an unmanned Luna 16 U.S.S.R.
spacecraft

first soft landing on

Dec. 15, 1970 Venera 7 U.S.S.R.
another planet (Venus)
 Date Country or
Event Details
accomplished Agency
April 19, 1971 first space stationlaunched Salyut 1 U.S.S.R.

first spacecraft to orbit

Nov. 13, 1971 Mariner 9 U.S.
another planet (Mars)

first spacecraft to soft-land

Dec. 2, 1971 Mars 3 U.S.S.R.
on Mars

first spacecraft to fly

Dec. 3, 1973 Pioneer 10 U.S.
by Jupiter

Apollo and Soyuzspacecraft

first international docking
July 17, 1975 during Apollo-Soyuz Test U.S., U.S.S.R.
in space
Project

first pictures transmitted

July 20, 1976 Viking 1 U.S.
from the surface of Mars

first spacecraft to fly

Sept. 1, 1979 Pioneer 11 U.S.
by Saturn

first reusable spacecraft

April 12–14,
launched and returned space shuttleColumbia U.S.
1981
from space

first spacecraft to fly

Jan. 24, 1986 Voyager 2 U.S.
by Uranus

first spacecraft to make a

European Space
March 13, 1986 close flyby of Giotto at Halley's Comet
Agency
a cometnucleus

first spacecraft to fly

Aug. 24, 1989 Voyager 2 U.S.
by Neptune

first large optical space U.S., European

April 25, 1990 Hubble Space Telescope
telescope launched Space Agency

first spacecraft to orbit

Dec. 7, 1995 Galileo U.S.
Jupiter

first resident crew to

William Shepherd, Yury
Nov. 2, 2000 occupy the International U.S., Russia
Gidzenko, and Sergey Krikalyov
Space Station

first spacecraft to orbit

Feb. 14, 2000;
(2000) and land on (2001) NEAR at the asteroid Eros U.S.
Feb. 12, 2001
an asteroid

Mojave
first privately funded
Aerospace
manned spacecraft to
June 21, 2004 Mike Melvill on SpaceShipOne Ventures
achieve suborbital flight
(commercial joint
above 100 km (62 miles)
venture)
 Date Country or
Event Details
accomplished Agency
U.S., European
first spacecraft to orbit
July 1, 2004 Cassini-Huygens Space Agency,
Saturn
Italy

first spacecraft to land on

U.S., European
the moon of a planet other Huygens probe of the Cassini-
Jan. 14, 2005 Space Agency,
than Earth (Saturn's Huygens spacecraft
Italy
moon Titan)

first spacecraft to return to

June 13, 2010 Earth with samples from Hayabusa Japan
an asteroid

first spacecraft to
March 17, 2011 Messenger U.S.
orbit Mercury

Reference:
https://www.britannica.com/science/space-exploration/Major-milestones