Who tried first isn't known, but the then Soviet Union were the first to succeed in getting a satellite into orbit
The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
I believe that russia was the first country to do so.
North Korea launched its first satellite into space in 2009.
The launching of the satellite Sputnik, the first satellite in the world.
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 one, was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union.
Russia
That was the USSR
The first country to launch a satellite into space was Russia, under the Soviet Union. The satellite was 'Sputnik 1'. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It's launch sparked a crisis within the US which precipitated the space race during the Cold War.
The first scientific satellite launched by the country of India was called Aryabhata. It was launched on April 18, 1975, by the Soviet Union.