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                        History of remote sensing

 

 

1783

The Marquis d’Arlandes and Pilatre made a voyage near  Paris using a balloon.

 

Photography  using balloon, pigeon

1860

 Aerial photos in Russia and the USA

1914-19

1939-45

 The first and second World War (WW) had seen tremendous development in photography

1927

 Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.

1955

 Work began on the Baikonur launch site in Russia

1957

 Sputnik 1 launched from Baikonur (first satellite)

1961

 Yuri Gagarin launched in the Vostok 1 capsule, becoming the first human in space.

1969

 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon

1971

 The first Space Station in history, the Russian Salyut 1

 

 

 

 

1972

 (US Landsat1) the concept of imaging from satellites

1986

 France launched the first stereo-imagine satellite (SPOT1)

1992

 The  space year (the maturity of remote sensing - 20 years of operation)

1995

 The Shuttle-Mir Program (1st  phase of the International Space Station (ISS)

2000

 The first 3 astronauts (2 Russian and one American) start to live in the ISS