No. Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere
No. Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as its decaying orbit brought into into Earth's atmosphere.
No Sputniks are still in orbit. When they were, the period of an orbit was about 88 minutes.
3 months
Sputnik 1 was the first human-built thing that was launched into orbit and functioned while there.
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to successfully achieve earth orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 from Kazakhstan, Sputnik 1 stayed in orbit for three months, plunging to Earth on 4 January 1958. It was the first of a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program.
No. Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as its decaying orbit brought into into Earth's atmosphere.
No Sputniks are still in orbit. When they were, the period of an orbit was about 88 minutes.
It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit.
3 months
Sputnik 1, the first man made object to orbit the earth. And we've been polluting like crazy up there ever since.
Sputnik 1 traveled at a speed of 18000 mph, completing one orbit of the Earth every 96.2 minutes.
Doesn't work like that, a satellite can't orbit one country. It can stay in geostationary orbit over some, but that's it. Sputnik 1 orbited the whole Earth.
Sputnik 1 was the first human-built thing that was launched into orbit and functioned while there.
No, Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft to orbit earth, was a roughly two foot diameter sphere/ball.
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to successfully achieve earth orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 from Kazakhstan, Sputnik 1 stayed in orbit for three months, plunging to Earth on 4 January 1958. It was the first of a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program.
It was the first artificial object to Orbit the Earth
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