{"id":76962,"date":"2018-03-16T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/vanguard-i-has-spent-six-decades-in-orbit-more-than-any-other-craft"},"modified":"2018-03-16T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:23:04","slug":"vanguard-i-has-spent-six-decades-in-orbit-more-than-any-other-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/vanguard-i-has-spent-six-decades-in-orbit-more-than-any-other-craft","title":{"rendered":"Vanguard I has spent six decades in orbit, more than any other craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vanguard-i-has-spent-six-decades-in-orbit-more-than-any-other-craft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of this month, the US satellite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/14\/vanguard-i-satellite-marks-50-yeras-in-orbit\/\">Vanguard I<\/a> has spent 60 years in orbit and it remains the oldest man-made object in space. Vanguard I was the fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/18\/the-robots-that-will-sweep-earths-skies\/\">satellite<\/a> launched into orbit \u2014 following the USSR\u2019s Sputnik I and II and the US\u2019 Explorer I. But none of the first three remain in orbit today and though Vanguard I can\u2019t send signals back to Earth anymore, it\u2019s still providing valuable data for researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The first two attempts to launch the first Vanguard satellite failed, but on March 17th, 1958, Vanguard I was successfully placed into orbit. It was manufactured by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/15\/orbiting-robots-will-refurbish-civilian-satellites\/\">US Naval Research Laboratory<\/a> (NRL), which published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.navy.mil\/news\/releases\/nrl-celebrates-60-years-space-vanguard\">a lookback<\/a> this week honoring the satellite\u2019s 60 years of service, and was part of a project that aimed to study Earth\u2019s geophysical phenomena from space. The Vanguard Project was established as part of the US contribution to the International Geophysical Year \u2014 a multi-national effort to study geophysical phenomena during a period of time when the sun\u2019s sunspot activity would be at a peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" data-credit=\"US Naval Research Laboratory\" data-mep=\"2538569\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vanguard-i-has-spent-six-decades-in-orbit-more-than-any-other-craft2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/03\/16\/vanguard-i-six-decades-orbit-oldest-man-made-object\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/03\/16\/vanguard-i-six-decades-o...de-object\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 following the USSR\u2019s Sputnik I and II and the US\u2019 Explorer I. But none of the first three remain in orbit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}