Interesting Engineering on MSN2d
Cold War’s best kept secret: Spy satellite that stayed hidden for 30 years
Launched in utter secrecy, Parcae’s orbital triads tracked Soviet warships in real-time, offering a vital edge at the height ...
Is DeepSeek A Sputnik Moment?
The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN8d
A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the ...
Hackaday8y
Stolen Tech: The Soviet Shuttle
The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States ... repairing, or sabotaging satellites in orbit. The Dyna-Soar project would end before a vehicle was built, but the idea of a reusable ...
PBS5y
The Space Race
The three men responsible for the success of Explorer 1, America's first Earth satellite which was launched January 31, 1958. NASA October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into earth orbit.
UPI9y
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviets bloc troops invade Czechoslovia PRAGUE, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - Invasion forces from Russia and its satellites occupied ... 1968 (UPI) - Soviet officials, speaking through the news agency ...
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The Little-Known Soviet Pilot Who Broke Mach 1
In the Space Race, the Soviets got bragging rights with the first artificial satellite launch into outer ... and balance we should acknowledge the Soviet’s first aviator & airplane tandem ...
PBS7y
The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
Americans feared the implications of the first man-made satellite orbiting above the ... He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were convinced that we would be the first ...