| SPUTNIK | Satellite launched in 1957 |
| KEPLER | U.S. satellite launched in 2009 that was designed to detect extrasolar planets by watching-from orbit around the Sun-for a slight dimming during transits as these bodies passed in front of their stars |
| TELSTAR | Communications satellite launched in 1962 |
| AURA | NASA research satellite launched in 2004 |
| EXPLORER | ? 1, US satellite launched in 1958 (8) |
| LANDSAT | Arrives near satellite launched in '72 (7) |
| ANIK | Canadian satellite launched in 1972 |
| MIR | Satellite launched in 1986 |
| EARLYBIRD | First commercial communication satellite, launched in 1965 (5,4) |
| EUCLID | European Space Agency satellite launched in July to investigate dark matter (6) |
| ANDYCAPP | Which comic strip character, launched in 1957, no longer has a cigarette in his mouth? (4,4) |
| SATELLITE | Sputnik, launched in 1957, was the first artificial such orbiting body of the Earth |
| TRABANT | East German car launched in 1957 that was built at Zwickau (7) |
| NUOVA | ___500, classic little car from Fiat launched in 1957 (5) |
| ATS | Satellite launched on 12/6/66 |
| TIROS | Abbreviation for the series of television and infrared observation meteorological satellites launched by the U.S. starting in 1960. (5) |
| INSAT | Name of a series of satellites launched by Isro (5) |
| ARIEL | Series of six artificial satellites launched by the US from 1962 to 1979 (5) |
| CAPP | Reg Smythe's inimitable cartoon character launched in Britain's Mirror in 1957, Andy ... |
| DAISY | ___ Bates, US journalist and civil rights activist, known mostly for her role in the integration of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 (5) |
