Doesn't work like that, a satellite can't orbit one country. It can stay in geostationary orbit over some, but that's it. Sputnik 1 orbited the whole Earth.
Russia (Sputnik 1)
The first satellite launched in the orbit of the Earth was the Sputnik 1. It was launched on 1957 by the Soviet Union.
It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit.
Sputnik 1 was in orbit for about three months, from October 4, 1957, to January 4, 1958.
Sputnik 1 was the first satellite ever put into orbit. It was launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Sputnik 1, the first man made object to orbit the earth. And we've been polluting like crazy up there ever since.
Sputnik 1 traveled at a speed of 18000 mph, completing one orbit of the Earth every 96.2 minutes.
No Sputniks are still in orbit. When they were, the period of an orbit was about 88 minutes.
No, Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft to orbit earth, was a roughly two foot diameter sphere/ball.
No country has ever orbited the earth. Scientists and engineers in the USSR placed the first man-made satellite in earth orbit, in 1957.
No. Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere
It was the first artificial object to Orbit the Earth