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That would be the Explorer 1.

Although Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite, and Sputnik 2 put the first living being in space (a dog), the USA beat the Soviets to the first scientifically equipped satellite, launching their Explorer 1 satellite on January the 31st, 1958, 104 days before the Soviet satellite Sputnik 3 was launched on May the 15th.

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