Abstract
Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into Earth orbit. The Vanguard 1 satellite is still up there and is the oldest human-made object in space. It’s our first piece of space archaeology.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 6 |
Specialist publication | The Conversation |
Publication status | Published - 21 Mar 2018 |
Keywords
- Space junk
- satellites
- Nanosatellite
- Vanguard
- Global perspectives
- Cube satellites