Company: Plextek Services
LinkedIn Post Text: On this day 78 years ago, the first images of Earth were taken from outer space. Since then, there have been many firsts including: The first animals in space -1947The first artificial satellites to enter orbit – 1957The first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova) – 1963The first orbital rendezvous – 1965The first man on the moon – 1969The first lunar rover – 1970 The first soft landing on Mars – 1971The first photograph of the whole Solar System – 1990The first multinational space station – 1998The first discovery of lunar water in the form of ice – 2008The first observation of gravitational waves – 2015The first spacecraft to make contact with an asteroid moon – 2022The first successful instance of both stages of a launch vehicle returned for a controlled landing – 2024Today, Plextek’s mmWave radar technology is a critical part of ClearSpace’s CLEAR Mission which aims to solve the problem of an increasingly congested space environment, by removing in-active, in-
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