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The Soviet Union launched the first satellite in space. It took minuets to orbit the Earth. It weighed 3.6 kilograms.
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In 1960 the first successful weather satellite was launched into space. It takes inferred pictures of the earth to help determine if there will be a storm or the weather change.
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In 1970 China launched their first satellite called the Dong Fang Hong
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This was designed to investegate solar pheonmenona or solar flares. It was the first satellite based on Multimission Modular Spacecraft.
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This space probe was to orbit the sun and study its latitudes. It only made three fast scans. It also studied comets and other space projects.
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The Snap-1 is a British nanosatellite that orbits the low earth orbit. It weighed 14 pounds. (6.5 kilograms.)
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Japanese space probe that was made to study Venus's atmosphere. They studied it for 5 years
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This was a key goal to help discover and understand the methane atmosphere. It was a project shared between the European Space Agency and the Roscosmos
