The first man-made object to successfully be placed in Earth orbit was dubbed "Sputnik".
It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ... part of the USSR at
the time ... on October 4, 1957.
The first satellite was launched more than 50 years ago. It was Sputnik in 1957.
The first man-made object to successfully be placed in Earth orbit was dubbed "Sputnik". It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ... part of the USSR at the time ... on October 4, 1957.
The first satellite in the system, Navstar 1, was launched February 22, 1978.
The first man-made object to successfully be placed in Earth orbit was dubbed "Sputnik". It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ... part of the USSR at the time ... on October 4, 1957.
The first satellite from Earth is named Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957.
The first Indian satellite was named Aryabhata, launched on April 19, 1975. It was named after the ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer.
The first man-made object to successfully be placed in Earth orbit was dubbed "Sputnik". It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ... part of the USSR at the time ... on October 4, 1957.
The Satcom series of satellites were originally developed and operated by RCA American Communications. The first Satcom satellite , named Satcom 1, was launched on December 13, 1975.
France was the third country to launch an artificial satellite named "Asterix" in 1965. This made France the third country to have successfully launched an artificial satellite into orbit after the Soviet Union and the United States.
Sputnik-1, launched October 4, 1957. That wasn't the first attempt, but it was the first man-made object to be successfully launched and placed in earth-orbit.
China launched its first artificial satellite on October 24, 1970. The satellite was named Dong Fang Hong 1 (DFH-1).
As far as was publicly announced, the first artificial satellite successfully placed into earth orbit ... the first one that stayed up long enough to actually make some orbits around the earth ... was the "Sputnik-I", launched in October of 1957 from the USSR (Russia).