History of Spaceflight,

Abstract

Ever since the opening of a new chapter of spaceflight activity on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union and the United States and launched a total of nine scientific satellites in a little over one year's time and had obtained preliminary understanding of some conditions outside the earth's atmosphere to set the ground for further spaceflight activities. At that time, out of needs for military and civilian practical applications, in addition to continuing the development of scientific satellites and thoroughly studying the other space the manufacturing of application satellites that have practical values had become a pressing matter of the moment. (China, Chinese language, Translations)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 04, 1987
Accession Number
ADA178381

Entities

People

  • Yu Lin

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cameras
  • Electronic Reconnaissance
  • Guided Missiles
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Payload
  • Photographic Reconnaissance
  • Photographs
  • Radio Transmission
  • Radio Waves
  • Reconnaissance
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Satellite Communications
  • Scientific Satellites
  • United States
  • Ussr

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites