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What year did the first mans satelitte orbit around the earth?
October, 1957.
What was important about john glenn orbiting the earth?
He was the first American to orbit the earth.
What is the first artificial Earth-orbiting satellite was called?
sputnik
What was the first artificial earth-orbiting satellite was called?
Sputnik-I
What is the significance of spuntik 1?
The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite.
Prior to 1957 what was the only satellite orbiting the earth?
Prior to 1957, the only artificial satellite orbiting the Earth was the United States' Vanguard 1, which was launched on March 17, 1958. However, before that, the first successful artificial satellite was the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957. Therefore, before Sputnik 1's launch, there were no artificial satellites in orbit.
What was the first us satellite in space?
Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Who was the first person to launch in space?
The first person to launch into space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, in 1961. He orbited the Earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
The worlds first artificail earth-orbiting satellite was called?
Sputnik-I launched October 4, 1957 from the USSR.
What was the first county to successfully launch a satellite and place it in an earth orbit?
think it was the soviet union.............
What was the first satellite for?
The first satellite (Sputnik I) was launched by the USSR (Russia) to demonstrate that they could launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
Who was the first to launch an earth satellite?
The first artificial satellite was Sputnik I, launched by the Soviet Union on the 4th of October 1957
