Sputnik 1 was launched on the 4th of October, 1957. The booster used by it had been used in August of that year to launch a long range missile.
The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4th, 1957 and Explorer 1 was launched on January 31st, 1958--so the answer is 119 days.
The Soviets launched Sputnik to demonstrate their technological superiority and to assert their dominance in the space race with the United States.
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The Explorer 1 was launched on January 31,1958 one year after the Sputnik 1,and Sputnik 11
It launched Sputnik 1, the world's first satellite.
The satellite the Soviets launched in 1957 was called Sputnik 1. It was the first artificial satellite to be placed into Earth's orbit and marked the beginning of the space age.
The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4th, 1957 and Explorer 1 was launched on January 31st, 1958--so the answer is 119 days.
The Soviets launched Sputnik to demonstrate their technological superiority and to assert their dominance in the space race with the United States.
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Sputnik
Yes, both were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was president during the time that the U.S. launched its Explorer 1 satellite, the following year after the Soviets launched their Sputnik-I in 1957.
The first satellite launched into space was Sputnik. It was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviets. Sputnik was launched into space and transmitted information via radio signals to Soviet scientists for three weeks.
Sputnik 1 was launched on the 4th of October 1957.
When the Soviets launched their satellite, named "Sputnik", almost immediately the United States established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (known as NASA) in July of 1958.
The US didn't launch the Sputnik, any of them. The sputniks, with Sputnik 1 being the most famous, was launched by Soviet Union, the USSR. Or the Russians if you wish.Sputnik wasn't American it was Russian. It was launched Oct. 4, 1957. It weighed 184 pounds and a month later they sent a larger satellite in orbit that was 1120 pounds and it carried a dog. By Feb. 5, 1961 32 American satellites were in space.
Sputnik-1 was launched from site No.1, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR (now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome) Kazakhstan, former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).Sputnik 1 was launched from Gagarin's Start which is the 5th Tyuratam range, located in Kazakhstan (A country of west-central Asia, south of Russia) where the Baikonor Cosmodrome is now.The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (U.S.S.R.)