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Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia
10 May 2024 at 2:08am
Sputnik 1 (/ ? s p ? t n ? k, ? s p ? t n ? k /, Russian: ???????-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc ...

Sputnik | Satellites, History, & Facts | Britannica
11 May 2024 at 4:09am
Sputnik, a series of three Soviet artificial satellites. Sputnik 1 (launched October 4, 1957) was the first artificial satellite and the beginning of the ?space race? between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Sputnik 2 carried the dog Laika, the first living creature in space.

Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age - NASA
10 May 2024 at 3:16pm
The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement, Sputnik caught the world's attention and the American public off-guard. Its size was more impressive than Vanguard's intended 3.5-pound payload.

Sputnik launched | October 4, 1957 | HISTORY
9 May 2024 at 9:19am
The Soviet Union inaugurates the ?Space Age? with its launch of Sputnik, the world?s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for ...

Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age - NASA
13 Mar 2023 at 5:05pm
The combination of technological and scientific advance, political competition with the Soviet Union, and changes in popular opinion about space flight came together in a very specific way in the 1950s to affect public policy in favor of an aggressive space program.

NASA | History - Sputnik
11 May 2024 at 1:17am
Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age. History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I.

ESA - Sputnik ? 60 years of the space age - European Space Agency
11 May 2024 at 2:07am
The launch of Sputnik-1, as it was officially called, signalled the start of the ?Space Age?, and fuelled the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States that was to result in more than a decade of unprecedented achievement.

60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race
9 May 2024 at 3:24pm
Laying the rocket work. Though Sputnik?s launch is looked at today as the moment that sparked the space race between the US and USSR, the push to leave the limits of the planet started much...

Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age - history2.nasa.gov
12 May 2024 at 7:07am
Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age. Introduction. Visions of Technological Success. American Response to Sputnik. Birth of NASA. Introduction. Few Americans considered the reception on Friday, 4 October 1957, at the Soviet Union's Embassy in Washington, DC, to be anything out of the ordinary.

65 Years Ago: Sputnik Ushers in the Space Age - NASA
10 May 2024 at 10:32pm
Launched as a contribution to the International Geophysical Year (IGY), Sputnik weighed 184 pounds and orbited the Earth every 90 minutes, sending out a signal that amateur radio operators around the world could monitor.



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