The Russian spacecraft the first by man was called the sputnik.
the name of the first satellite is Sputnik
by the russians. it was a hollowed out nuclear missile =============================== No, and furthermore, no. Sputnik was the name given to the first man-made object to successfully achieve low-earth-orbit, after earlier failed attempts in both the USA and the USSR. It was not the first intended artificial satellite to be launched, only the first to succeed. And it didn't go anywhere near "outer space", just into thin-enough atmosphere that it was able to stay there for a few months before it fell out of orbit and burned up.
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.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the first satellite into space, named as Sputnik I.
Explorer One launched on January 31st 1958.
The USSR's Sputnik was the first artificial satellite.
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The (former) USSR launch the first satellite. Its name was Sputnik.
The first satellite launched into space was the Sputnik I, but before that have you ever considered the fact that a satellite is any object that orbits a heavenly body? The VERY first satellite was in fact the moon. But the first MAN-MADE satellite was Sputnik I launched by USSR.
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The USSR launched Sputnik I, the first successful artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957.
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The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
The first man-made object to successfully achieve earth orbit was Sputnik-1, launched by the Soviet Union (USSR) on October 4, 1957.
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).
The first successful earth-orbiting artificial satellite was launched from the USSR in October 1957. Once it had achieved orbit, its name was announced to the world as "Sputnik-1".