Sputnik was a "family name" for a series of satellites. Some have burned up upon reentry while some were launched further out.
No Sputniks are still in orbit. When they were, the period of an orbit was about 88 minutes.
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.
Sputnik was launched into a low-Earth orbit. Sputnik was launched By the Soviet Union. It was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. it weighed about 98 pounds and took 90 minutes to orbit earth. when Sputnik was launched the Space Race began.
1957
No Sputniks are still in orbit. When they were, the period of an orbit was about 88 minutes.
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.
Sputnik was launched into a low-Earth orbit. Sputnik was launched By the Soviet Union. It was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. it weighed about 98 pounds and took 90 minutes to orbit earth. when Sputnik was launched the Space Race began.
It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit.
It was in orbit around Earth.
1957
Sputnik 1 traveled at a speed of 18000 mph, completing one orbit of the Earth every 96.2 minutes.
Sputnik 1, the first man made object to orbit the earth. And we've been polluting like crazy up there ever since.
Sputnik was a "family name" for a series of Russian satellites. Sputnik 1 (the very first artificial satellite launched by the Russians) was in orbit in 1957, but only briefly. It was in a very low orbit, and it fell out of orbit and burned on re-entry shortly afterward, which is was designed to do. It had accomplished it's mission.
Sputnik-I
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