EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ COMSAT. Answer: communications satellite
⩥ perigee. Answer: lowest point of orbit
⩥ GNSS. Answer: Global Navigation Satellite System
⩥ GPS. Answer: Global Positioning System
⩥ kepler. Answer: discovered satellites of jupiter
⩥ year that sputnik was launched. Answer: 1957
⩥ How many artificial satellites. Answer: over 24,00
⩥ What was first coms satellite and what year. Answer: Score, 1958
⩥ 1st commercial satellite and year?. Answer: 1962, Telstar 1
,⩥ ITSO. Answer: International Telecommunications Satellite
Organization, world's largest commercial satellite communications
provider; now called INTELSAT
⩥ TDRSS. Answer: covereage for low earth-orbiting satellites, relays
data
⩥ 1st nav satellite for polaris missile submarines?. Answer: Transit
⩥ 1st probe to photograph Moon before apollo?. Answer: Rangers
⩥ What program took flybys of Mercury, Venus, and Mars?. Answer:
Mariner
⩥ Mission for Jupiter and Saturn. Answer: Pioneer, Voyager 1 + 2
⩥ Mission for Mars. Answer: Viking
⩥ Gave 1st theory of motion of celestial bodies, which was geocentric.
Answer: Ptolemy
⩥ Gave heliocentric theory. Answer: Copernicus
, ⩥ Kepler's 1st law. Answer: Orbit of a planet is an ellipse with sun at the
focus
⩥ x-37. Answer: Advances in tech flight demonstrator - military space
plane
⩥ Join project with Soviet union. Answer: Apollo-Soyuz, 1975
⩥ Achieved 1st walk in space & 2 man capsule. Answer: Gemini, 2nd
program
⩥ 1st manned spaceflight. Answer: Mercury, 1st program
⩥ Project putting laboratory in space. Answer: Skylab, 1973
⩥ 1st man in space. Answer: Yuri Gagarin
⩥ 1st woman in space. Answer: Valentina Tereshkova, 1963
⩥ 1st to walk in space. Answer: Alexei Leonov, 1965
⩥ Soviet Union's 1st space station. Answer: Salyut 1