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The first satellite in orbit was launched by the Russians on October 4, 1957. The satellite was Sputnik I, and it spurred the USA to launch their own satellite, Explorer I, on January 31, 1958.
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the first real satellite was The Moon, but the first artificial was Sputnik 1

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Who was first to invented the satellite?

The very first satellite put into orbit was the Russian satellite Sputnik put into orbit on October 4th, 1957.


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The first satellite launched in the orbit of the Earth was the Sputnik 1. It was launched on 1957 by the Soviet Union.


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The first satellite (Sputnik I) was launched by the USSR (Russia) to demonstrate that they could launch a satellite into Earth orbit.


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