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.
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∙ 10y agoSputnik 1 came first. It was the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, marking the beginning of the space age.
The launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 marked the beginning of the Space Race.
No one. It was the first Earth satellite and sent in space by the the Russians (USSR).
It came from Russia, which was at the time the USSR, the Soviet Union.Sputnik 1 was launched from Gagarin's Start which is the 5th Tyuratam range, located inKazakh (now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome).Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, then a part of the USSR.
The first one that succeeded in achieving orbit was Sputnik-1, launched by the USSR from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 4, 1957. There were earlier attempts that failed, in both the US and Russia. Sputnik was the first one that achieved orbit outside the atmosphere and stayed up there for a while.
The first artificial satellite launched into space was called Sputnik 1. It was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957.
the name of the first satellite is Sputnik
It means it was the first sputnik.
Sputnik 1 Sputnik 1
That was Sputnik 1 launched 4. oktober 1957 I suppose the name was "Sputnik" and then later when they sendt the next one, they became "Sputnik 1" and "Sputnik 2" regards.
First Soviet SatelliteIt was called the 'Sputnik' and was put into orbit on October 4th, 1957. The timing was 'tweaked' to mark the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit.
No one. It was the first Earth satellite and sent in space by the the Russians (USSR).
Sputnik 1, the first man made object to orbit the earth. And we've been polluting like crazy up there ever since.
Sputnik 1.
Russian's Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite.
Sputnik 1 was the first man-made object (officially known ) launched into trajectory. The first artificial satellite.
No, Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft to orbit earth, was a roughly two foot diameter sphere/ball.