Talk:Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes
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- Should this be combined with Timeline of planetary exploration? Rmhermen 15:12, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Coverage of international achievements
This article only offers coverage of progress made by the United States and the Soviet Union (later Russia). In my opinion, the article should be expanded to include satellites launched by other countries. What do you think? --Ramsobol 21:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Luna 1 Success?
I understood from articles here and elsewhere, Luna 1 was an impactor that failed in its mission, although it did achieve orbit aorund the moon.
74.9.199.162 15:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC) JohnS
[edit] New style?
I think this list could be improved if it was replaced with a table (see Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites). Below is one example (without probes images). Background color denotes the target. Comments?
Same applies to other spacecraft lists.
--Jyril 20:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
| 1957 |  |
Sputnik 1 | satellite | Success | first Earth orbiting satellite |
| 1957 | |
Sputnik 2 | satellite | Partial success | first Earth orbiting satellite with an animal (Laika) |
| 1958 |  |
Explorer 1 | satellite | Success | |
| 1958 | |
Vanguard 1 | satellite | Success | |
| 1958 | |
Pioneer 0 | orbiter | Failure | |
| 1958 | |
Pioneer 1 | orbiter | Failure | |
| 1958 | |
Pioneer 3 | flyby | Failure | |
| 1959 | |
Luna 1 | flyby | Success | discovered solar wind |
| 1959 | |
Pioneer 4 | flyby | ||
| 1959 | |
Luna 2 | impactor | Success | first spacecraft to impact onto the surface of the Moon |
| 1959 | |
Luna 3 | flyby | Success | returned first images of the Moon's far side |
- I like the general idea. However, the flags are too big and attention grabbing. This is not the medal count of the Olympics, so just the names of the countries should suffice, IMHO. Awolf002 20:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- During the space race, it was a contest. ;) The reason why I added the flags was more of aesthetics than information. I don't think I'll have much time to improve it, but I hope somebody willing develops it further.--Jyril 20:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] early manned flights missing
At first I thought this list only included unmanned satellites, but then I saw it covered the Apollo missions which are manned. Therefore there are some big gaps in the list, we need to add the main flights of Vostok, Mercury, Voskhod, Gemini, Soyuz and Shenzou, amongst others.Charles 02:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Improvements
I am reworking this incomplete list. I have added an explanation of the list's criteria to the lead and am reworking the list to fit exactly what it mostly followed before. I removed the few manned flights, and some random Earth-observing satellites. I am trying to keep only the first satellites from each country, under the technology demonstrator reasoning, if they don't otherwise fit the criteria. Rmhermen (talk) 17:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
