GHGSat, a Canadian firm monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, has successfully launched the world's first commercial space-based sensor, Vanguard. Reuters tells us that this cutting-edge orbital sensor ...

As of this month, the US satellite Vanguard I has spent 60 years in orbit and it remains the oldest man-made object in space. Vanguard I was the fourth satellite launched into orbit -- following the ...

This image shows one of the Vanguard satellites being checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. Vanguard 1, the world’s first solar-powered satellite, launched on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) ...

Just months after the Sputnik launch, the U.S government began testing the Vanguard project. Exactly 60 years ago, on March 17th 1958, Vanguard 1 was sent into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ...

On Saint Patrick's Day in 1958, the U.S. Navy launched Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite and the oldest artificial satellite currently orbiting the Earth. The main purpose of this mission ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into Earth orbit. The Vanguard 1 ...

WASHINGTON –On Sept. 9, 1952, the U.S. Defense Department made what is now widely regarded as an ill-fated decision to make the Vanguard rocket the center of America’s effort to launch the first ...

The Navy’s test satellite, Vanguard I, may be small, but it is high and wondrously sophisticated, and it will probably stay in space many years longer than any of its earlier rivals. Its elliptical ...

Alice Gorman is a Board Director of the Space Industry Association of Australia. Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into ...