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Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia
27 Mar 2024 at 9:13am
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
25 Mar 2024 at 4:46pm
Category: Science & Tech. Key People: Valentin Petrovich Glushko. Sputnik, any of a series of three artificial Earth satellites, the first of whose launch by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, inaugurated the space age. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched, was a 83.6-kg (184-pound) capsule.

Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age - NASA
26 Mar 2024 at 11:19pm
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political ...

Sputnik launched | October 4, 1957 | HISTORY
27 Mar 2024 at 4:41am
This Day in History: 10/04/1957 - Sputnik Launched. The Soviet Union inaugurates the ?Space Age? with its launch of Sputnik, the world?s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957.

The Space Race: Timeline, Cold War & Facts | HISTORY
27 Mar 2024 at 10:03am
On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for ?traveler?), the world?s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed...

Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age - NASA
13 Mar 2023 at 5:05pm
Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age. by Roger D. Launius. 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.

USSR Launches Sputnik - National Geographic Society
26 Mar 2024 at 3:09am
Overview. Vocabulary. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The satellite, an 85-kilogram (187-pound) metal sphere the size of a basketball, was launched on a huge rocket and orbited Earth at 29,000 kilometers per hour (18,000 miles per hour) for three months.

NASA | History - Sputnik
26 Mar 2024 at 6:15am
Sputnik. Chronology. Timeline. Audio and Video. Beeps from Sputnik. Sputnik: The Beep Heard Round the World, The Birth of the Space Age. Books. Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science. Challenge to Apollo: Pt 1 The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945 - 1974. Challenge to Apollo Pt 2.

Sputnik and the Space Age | National Air and Space Museum
27 Mar 2024 at 9:01pm
Sputnik, launched by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on October 4, 1957, marked a simple, yet profound event in history: the placement of the first human-made satellite into Earth orbit. In retrospect, the visual and auditory impact of Sputnik seems almost deliberate.

Oct. 4, 1957 - Sputnik, the Dawn of the Space Age - NASA
26 Mar 2024 at 11:19pm
Image Article. History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball, about 23 inches in diameter and weighing less than 190 pounds.



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