Sputnik was a series of artificial satellites that were sent into space. The first one was placed in orbit on the 4th October 1957. Literally translated from Russian, the word means "Fellow traveler".
The Russian word sputnik literally means "traveling companion" or "satellite".
it means satellite or companion.
in Russian it means barker. a dog named laika was sent into space on sputnik 2
No, the Russian's Sputnik was unmanned.
Sputnik was the "family name" for a series of satellites, so there never was a satellite named only Sputnik. They all had numbers with Sputnik 1 being the first.
The word sputnik originates from is russia.
Russian is the language of origin for the word sputnik. The word in question functions as a noun whose translation into English generally is as "companion". "co-traveler," or "fellow traveler." But regardless of meaning or use, the pronunciation remains "spuht-nihk" in Russian.
A new word frequently taken from alien language to assign a meaning to an old word in ones own language. eg a Russian word sputnik is now a new word with a new meaning in English
Sputnik means "fellow traveler" in Russian.
The Russian word sputnik literally means "traveling companion" or "satellite".
it means satellite or companion.
The word "sputnik" comes from Russian, meaning "satellite" or "companion." It was famously used to name the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
In Russian, the word 'Sputnik' is translated to the English word 'Satellite'.The actual name of the SATELLITE was 'Vostok' or 'Vostok 3KA'.
Not an English word-closest match, sputnik, soviet satellite.
The word sounding comes from the nautical term meaning 'to measure'. We use sounding rockets to perform measurements and experiments in space. Sounding rockets do not enter orbit, but can go very high into space.
Because the Sputnik program ended with Sputnik 3. Albeit there was a Sputnik 40 and 41 but these were to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Sputnik 1.
in Russian it means barker. a dog named laika was sent into space on sputnik 2