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1960 In Spaceflight (May–August)
This is a list of spaceflights launched between May and August 1960. For launches between January and April, see 1960 in spaceflight (January–April). For launches between September and December see 1960 in spaceflight (September-December). For an overview of the whole year, see 1960 in spaceflight. Orbital launches , colspan=8 style="background:white;", May , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", June , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", July , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", August , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", Suborbital flights Reference External links {{DEFAULTSORT:1960 in spaceflight (July-September) 1960 in spaceflight Spaceflight by year Spaceflight Spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in orbit around Earth, but also includes space probes for flights beyond Earth orbit. Such spaceflights operate either by telerobotic or autonomous control. The first spaceflights began in the 1950s with the launches of the Soviet Sputnik satellites and American Explorer and Vanguard missions. Human spaceflight programs include the Soyuz, Shenzhou, the past Apollo Moon landing and the Space Shuttle programs. Other current spaceflight are conducted to the International Space Station and to China's Tiangong Space Station. Spaceflights include the launches of Earth observation and telecommunications satellites, interplanetary missions, the rendezvouses and dockings with space stations, and crewed spaceflights on sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo 1A
Project Echo was the first passive communications satellite experiment. Each of the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive reflectors of microwave signals. Communication signals were transmitted from one location on Earth and bounced off the surface of the satellite to another Earth location. The first transmissions using Echo were sent from Goldstone, California, to Crawford Hill in Holmdel, New Jersey, on 12 August 1960. The last Echo satellite deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere on 7 June 1969.Astronautix.com, ''Echo'' Background The concept of using orbital satellites to relay communications predated space travel, first being advanced by[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Space And Astronautical Science
, or ISAS, is a Japanese national research organization of astrophysics using rockets, astronomical satellites and interplanetary probes which played a major role in Japan's space development. Established as part of the University of Tokyo in 1964, the institute spun off from the university to come under direct purview of the Ministry of Education. Since 2003, it is a division of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). History The ISAS originated as part of the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo, where Hideo Itokawa experimented with miniature solid-fuel rockets ( Pencil Rocket and ) in the 1950s. This experimentation eventually led to the development of the Κ (''Kappa'') sounding rocket, which was used for observations during the International Geophysical Year (IGY). By 1960, the Κ-8 rocket had reached an altitude of 200 km. In 1964, the rocket group and the ''Institute of Aeronautics'', along with scientific ballooning team, were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akita Rocket Range , large spitz breed from the mountainous regions of northern Ja ...
is a Japanese name and may refer to: Places * Akita Prefecture, region in northeastern Japan ** Akita (city), capital city of the prefecture ** Akita Station, railway station in the city of Akita ** Port of Akita, seaport on the Sea of Japan coast in the city of Akita * Akita Domain, also known as Kubota Domain, feudal domain in Edo period Japan * Akita, Kumamoto, former town in southwestern Japan * 8182 Akita, main-belt asteroid People * Akita clan, Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū * Akita (surname), people with the surname Art, entertainment, and media * Akita ''(Ninjago)'', character in the animated series ''Ninjago'' Other uses * Akita (dog) The is a Japanese dog breed of large size. Originating from the mountains of northern Japan, the Akita has a short double coat similar to that of many other northern spitz breeds. Historically, they were used by matagi for guarding and the hunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kappa (rocket)
Kappa was a family of solid-fuel Japanese sounding rocket A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The rockets are often ...s, which were built starting from 1956. Rockets Kappa 1 * Ceiling: 40 km * Takeoff thrust: 10.00 kN * Diameter: 0.13 m * Length: 2.70 m Kappa 2 * Ceiling: 40 km * Mass: 300 kg * Diameter: 0.22 m * Length: 5 m Kappa 6 (in two stages) * Pay load: 20 kg * Ceiling: 60 km * Takeoff weight: 270 kg * Diameter: 0.25 m * Length: 5.61 m Kappa 7 * Ceiling: 50 km * Diameter: 0.42 m * Length: 8.70 m Kappa 8 (in two stages) * Pay load: 50 kg * Ceiling: 160 km * Takeoff weight: 1500 kg * Diameter: 0.42 m * Length: 10.90 m Kappa 4 * Ceiling: 80 km * Takeoff thrust: 105.00 kN * Diameter: 0.33 m * Length: 5.90 m Kappa 9L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NII-88
TsNIIMash () is a Russian rocket and spacecraft scientific center, dealing with all phases of development from conceptual design to flight test. The Institute is the main analytical center of Roskosmos in the field of system-wide studies of the problems of the development of Russia's RKT with a wide range of tasks: from conceptual design and long-term prospects for the development of rocket and space technology to specific technological developments and their conversion in the interests of other industries. It was established in 1946. The name TsNIIMash is an initialism for Central Research Institute of Machine Building (). History Originally called NII-88 (Scientific-Research Institute No.88), the entity was established on May 13, 1946, located at what was then called Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast (now Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Korolyov), northeast of Moscow. It was based on Plant No. 88 (full name: M.I. Kalinin Plant No. 88, producing artillery and tanks during WW2) and headed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapustin Yar SP-2
Kapustin () and Kapustina (; feminine) is a common Russian surname. It is derived from the sobriquet ''"капуста"'' (cabbage). Notable people with the surname include: * Anton Kapustin (born 1971), professor of theoretical physics at Caltech * Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin), 19th-century head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem * Denis Kapustin (athlete) (born 1970), Russian triple jumper * Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020), Soviet pianist and composer * Nikolai Kapustin (mathematician) (born 1957), Russian mathematician * Sergei Kapustin (1953–1995), Soviet ice hockey player See also *Kapustin Yar Kapustin Yar () is a Russian military training area and a rocket launch complex in Astrakhan Oblast, about 100 km east of Volgograd. It was established by the Soviet Union on 13 May 1946. In the beginning, Kapustin Yar used technology, material ..., a rocket launch and development site in Russia {{surname, Kapustin Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scout X-1
Scout X-1 was an American expendable launch system and sounding rocket which was flown seven times between August 1960 and October 1961. Four orbital and three suborbital launches were made, with four of the launches resulting in failures. The Scout X-1 was similar to the Scout X test vehicle which was launched in April 1960, however it had live second and fourth stages, as opposed to the battleship (rocketry), battleship versions used on the Scout X. It also featured an improved first stage, using an Algol (rocket stage), Algol 1B instead of the earlier Algol 1A used on the Scout X. Several derivatives of the Scout X-1 were also flown. The United States Navy developed the RM-89 Blue Scout I, Blue Scout, which was a three-stage sounding rocket, and the RM-90 Blue Scout II, Blue Scout II which was almost identical to the Scout X-1. The Scout X-1A, a five-stage variant of the Scout X-1, was used for a single suborbital launch in March 1962. It featured an improved first stage, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 In Spaceflight (September–December)
This is a list of spaceflights launched between September and December 1960. For launches between January and April, see 1960 in spaceflight (January–April), for launches between May and August, see 1960 in spaceflight (May–August). For an overview of the whole year, see 1960 in spaceflight. Orbital launches , colspan=8 style="background:white;", September , - October , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", November , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", December , - , colspan=8 style="background:white;", , - Suborbital flights Reference External links {{DEFAULTSORT:1960 in spaceflight (October-December) 1960 in spaceflight Spaceflight by year Spaceflight Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, eit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korabl-Sputnik 2
Korabl-Sputnik 2 (), also known as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. It was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth, including two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka. Launched on 19 August 1960, it paved the way for the first human orbital flight, Vostok 1, which was launched less than eight months later. Background Korabl-Sputnik 2 was the second attempt to launch a Vostok capsule with dogs on board. The first try on 28 July, carrying a pair named Bars (Snow Leopard aka Chaika (Seagull)) and Lisichka (Foxie), had been unsuccessful after the Blok G strap-on suffered a fire and breakdown in one of the combustion chambers, followed by its breaking off of the booster 19 seconds after launch. Around 30 seconds, the launch vehicle disintegrated, the core and strap-ons flying in random directions and crashing into the steppe. Flight controllers sent a comman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courier 1A
Courier 1B, is the world's first active repeater communications satellite, Courier 1B was successfully launched on October 4, 1960 at 17:45:00 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first Courier satellite in Project Courier, Courier 1A, was lost 2.5 minutes after lift-off on August 18, 1960. History As a Cold War initiative, Courier 1B was the 26th satellite launched by the US as opposed to the Soviet Union's six satellites since Sputnik I in 1957. Proposed by the US Army Signal Corps in September 1958, Courier 1B was a follow-up to SCORE program launched December 18, 1958. SCORE "was the first step of an evolutionary program to develop communication satellite systems for use by the military services". The Project Courier was a joint program of the US Department of Defense (ARPA) along with the US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Courier 1B would receive messages or photographs, store them, and then re-transmit them. Courier 1B was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
