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It was the first artificial satellite launched in October 1957.
What is Sputnik?
It is the name of the obit that is most easily accessible by spacecraft with a period of approximately 94 minutes.
What is Low Earth Orbit (LEO)?
This threshold is generally considered to be 50 miles above Earth's surface?
What is space?
It is the term that describes a systems overall behavior or traits.
What is emergent behavior?
Born and Raised in Caribou, ME, this astronaut was a 2020 times magazine top 100 most influential people award recipient and completed a 205 day tour on the International Space Station.
Who is Jessica Meir?
The Galileo probe, launched in October 1989, contained 16 different scientific instruments, including magnetometers, various EM detectors, plasma and cosmic dust analyzers to study this planetary object.
What is Jupiter?
It is the orbit trajectory obtained when the eccentricity is greater than 1.
What is hyperbolic trajectory?
On Earth, this atom forms stables molecules that support life, but in space it flies solo and is very corrosive to spacecraft.
What is oxygen?
The percentage of failures that are attributed to failures in systems engineering by NASA?
What is 100%?
This company currently operates and maintains approximately 60% of the 12,149 registered satellites currently in space.
What is Space X?
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history in November 2025 when a sample returned from this asteroid showed evidence of RNA building block molecules.
What is asteroid Bennu?
It is the apocythe distance for an orbit with an moment of momentum of 5*1011 m2/s2.
What is 769,000 km?
NASA and collaborators have identified over 100 million of these objects in Earth orbit.
What are micro-meteoroids and orbital debris (MMOD)?
Name 3 of the 7 common subsystems embedded into each spacecraft?
What are propulsion, GN&C, structures, thermal, power, command and data, communications.
It is the name of the first successful rocket to make it to space.
What is the V-2?
This space probe was launched in 2018 and is credited with the closest approach to the sun, 3.8 million miles in December 2024, and is still in operation.
What is the Parker Solar Probe?
It is the spacecraft velocity required to enter a circular orbit around Jupiter at a distance of 210,000 km.
What is 7.7 km/s?
This celestial phenomenon occurs approximately one er week and can seriously damage spacecraft.
What are solar flares?
It is the generic name for the smallest piece or process within a system.
What is an element?
It's current value is estimated to be approximately $438 billion.
What is the space industry?
Launched in May 1965, it is the oldest continually operated spacecraft despite not have power supply or fuel source, and is project to return to Earth in 30,000 years.
What is the Lincoln Calibration Sphere?
It is the number of Earth years required for an asteroid travelling in a circular orbit around the sun at a distance of 4.5 billion km.
What is 165 years?
It is a hazardous phenomenon in the space environment principally responsible for the power and computer failures on spacecraft.
What is gamma radiation?
It is the subsystem that is responsible for 70% of spacecraft failures historically.
What is communications?
Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, is the first human to have one of these in space.
What is a funeral?