Miscellaneous
The name of the first NASA satellite was Explorer 1, launched on January 31, 1958. It was the United States' first successful satellite and was instrumental in the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts.
NASA recently launched the Landsat 9 satellite, a collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey. This satellite will continue the mission of monitoring changes to the Earth's land and coastal regions.
December 18,1999.
The smallest satellite was also NASA's first micro-satellite launched from Alaska on November 20, 2010. The satellite's name was FASTSAT or the USA 220.
NASA
NASA launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958.
Mercury
"Phoenix", launched August 4, 2007, successfully landed on Mars on May 25, 2008. It is designed to seek water ice near the Martian north pole.
Nasa lunched Expedition 21 Soyuz Launch to International Space Station September 30
Launched the first satellite- Sputnik.
The first weather satellite was TIROS-1, launched by NASA in 1960. The development of this satellite was led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in collaboration with the U.S. Weather Bureau (now the National Weather Service).
NASA successfully launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, on 31 January 1958. NASA launched the first American into space, Alan Shepard, on 5 May 1961.