Early warnings of alien attack would come from SID, the Space Intruder Detector, a computerised tracking satellite that constantly scans for UFO incursions.

The Infrared Detector Laboratory built the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer ( NICMOS ) instrument for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Multiband Imaging Photometer ( MIPS ) instrument for the Spitzer Space Telescope.

SPACEHAB Payloads include the Advanced X-Ray Detector ( ADV XDT ), the Advanced Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus ( ADV CGBA ), the EORF, Mechanics of Granular Materials ( MGM ) Experiment, Intra-Vehicular Radiation Environment Measurements by the Real-Time Radiation Monitor ( RME-1312 ), Space Acceleration Measurement System ( SAMS ), VOA and the Volatile Removal Assembly prototype for the ISS Water Recovery System

In 1989, the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite took astrometry into orbit, where it could be less affected by mechanical forces of the Earth and optical distortions from its atmosphere.

Recent observations by the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite may explain the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.

Earthly station's satellite dish of the National Institute for Space Research, in Cuiabá.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Several space observatories did the same, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the ROSAT X-ray observing satellite, and significantly the Galileo spacecraft, then on its way to a rendezvous with Jupiter scheduled for 1995.

Image: European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt-space telescope. jpg | European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, 1 / 2 scale mockup of XMM-Newton satellite.

In 1987 he took up a two-year post as chief scientist at the Department of Transportation, and in 1989 joined the Institute of Space Science and Technology in Gainesville, Florida where he contributed to a paper on the results from the Interplanetary Dust Experiment using data from the Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite.

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system ( GNSS ) currently being built by the European Union ( EU ) and European Space Agency ( ESA ).

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

* 1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.

On April 25, 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of its first satellite it will be adding a 3rd mission, which is to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry.

* 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

He suggested " Pioneer " as the name of the probe since " the Army had already launched and orbited the Explorer satellite and their Public Information Office was identifying the Army as ' Pioneers in Space ,'" and by adopting the name the Air Force would " make a ' quantum jump ' as to who really the ' Pioneers in space.

In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, thus starting the Space Age.

The largest artificial satellite currently orbiting the Earth is the International Space Station.

The Hipparcos catalogue was compiled from the data gathered by the European Space Agency's astrometric satellite Hipparcos, which was operational from 1989 to 1993.

Thailand-based Shinawatra Computer and Communications Co. Ltd. ( now Shin Corporation ) signed a US $ 100 million contract with Hughes Space and Communications Company Ltd. in 1991 to launch Thailand's first satellite communications project.

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, had been put into orbit by the Soviets in 1957, and this could be considered the beginning of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

Space Systems / Loral, an American commercial satellite manufacturer, now flies Fakel SPT-100's on their GEO communications spacecraft.

* SMART-1-European Space Agency satellite

* Prisma, a satellite owned by the Swedish Space Corporation

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.

* The second series of the British radio science fiction program Journey Into Space ( 1954 – 1955 ) deals with a trip to Mars and what the astronauts find there.

* In the comic book, Ministry of Space, by Warren Ellis, Peenemünde gets captured by the British Army.

The British director had no feature film experience, but had directed several episodes of Star Trek, including the popular Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " and the Deep Space Nine double-length pilot episode " Emissary ".

A similar puppet-based series to the Anderson ones was Space Patrol ( 1962 – 64 ), produced by Roberta Leigh, for Associated British Corporation ( ABC ).

The TARDIS ( ( Time and Relative Dimension in Space ) is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television program Doctor Who and its associated spin-offs.

* December 16 – Arthur C. Clarke, British / Sri Lankan science-fiction author ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) ( d. 2008 )

In 1994 the Rover Group was sold to BMW and British Aerospace Space Systems was sold to Matra Marconi Space.

* An alien spaceship in the 1970s British science-fiction television series Space: 1999.

The song " The Green Hills of Earth " which appears in the story was also used in the 11th episode of the third series of the British radio series, Journey into Space.

The novel's theme of transcendent evolution also appears in Clarke's Space Odyssey series, and is attributed to the influence of British author Olaf Stapledon.

It was assisted by the British National Committee for Space Research.

In the British television programme Doctor Who, The Master says in the serial Colony in Space that the Crab Nebula was the result of the Uxariean race testing the Doomsday Weapon, which is capable of making stars go supernova.

* Lumen — The Planet of Light in the British puppet TV series Space Patrol.

On 19 July 1994 it acquired British Aerospace Space Systems ( a subsidiary of BAe Dynamics with 900 workers ) for £ 56 million.

British Aerospace Space Systems Ltd was a subsidiary of British Aerospace.

* The 1956 British film Fire Maidens from Outer Space was set on Jupiter's 13th moon, although this film was made before the discovery of Leda in 1974.

* British Geological Survey's Space Weather site

Synthpop's early steps, and Gary Numan in particular, were also disparaged in the British music press of the late 1970s and early 1980s for their German influences and characterised by journalist Mick Farren as the " Adolf Hitler Memorial Space Patrol ".

In the 1950s, he played the time-traveller ( also known as " the voice ") in the British sci-fi radio series Journey Into Space.

* MUSTARD, an acronym for an experimental British spacecraft design ( Multi-Unit Space Transport and Recovery Device )

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music ; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electronic organs, synthesizers, experimental guitar work and science fiction or astronomical lyrical themes, though it was later repurposed to refer to a series of late 1980s British alternative rock bands that drew from earlier influences to create a more ambient but still melodic form of pop music.

British space rockers Hawkwind released the track " Orgone Accumulator " as the first track on side three of the 1972 live album, Space Ritual.