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Detailed explanation-1: -Which country has launched satellite to create world’s first artificial meteor shower? Notes: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has launched a rocket carrying a satellite capable of delivering an artificial meteor shower into the Earth’s atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-2: -Description. The Sputnik 1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth and was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam (370 km southwest of the small town of Baikonur) in Kazakhstan, then part of the former Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Pierce invented the first communications satellite, enabling radio waves to bounce from one ground-based station to another. Pierce learned from the success of his design with Echo 1– a large aluminum sphere acting as a mirror, reflecting radio waves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Getting directions, watching television, monitoring the weather, conducting scientific research-our lives have been fundamentally changed by thousands of satellites in orbit around Earth.