Sputnik

The unique thing concerning the Sputnik 2 (compared to previous Sputnik 1 satellite) was the fact it carried the first living being into other space - a dog named Laika. "Laika" translates to English as "Barker".

Although the launch of Sputnik lead to the humiliation of America's scientific community and the public as a whole, it was more benificial to the United States than a negative effect. For one, there was the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958 (which will become DARPA later on). There was the establishment of NASA in 1958, and thus space research was now in civilian hands rather than military. You had the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which increased the funds towards the education in the fields of science, math, and engineering by an insurmountable amount, as well as creating low-finance student loans. And finally you had the Apallo missions, which would not be possible without the technological determanism America had towards becoming the dominating figure in the fields of science and engineering, as well as beating the Soviet Union in the Space Race.

The effects of the Russian Sputnik being launched was that it caused a national panic throughout the US public and government. The Russian Sputnik was the first artificial satellite. What this caused throughout America was the greatly increased pace of scientific developments and scientific devices. The effects the Sputnik had upon the Russian public was that it caused a great amount of harassment of the US and a great deal of power now being held by the Russian government and military over the rest of the world including the USA.

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It was polished to a metal sheen.

A dog

The Vanguard Project

Sputnik means "fellow traveler" in Russian.

It was significant because it was the first artificial satellite that reached an orbit, and it also started the space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; for example, first man on the moon wouldn't have happen if the Soviet Unions had not launched Sputnik I.

the beginning of the space race

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fith wheel on a truck originated on a 4 wheel vehicle as an extra wheel

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Big, strong rockets.

Yes, the Soviet satellite called Sputnik in the English-speaking world was visible in the US, and many people went out at night to try to spot it.

They launched the first man made object into Earth orbit - the satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957.

Lloyds of London

The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4th, 1957 and Explorer 1 was launched on January 31st, 1958--so the answer is 119 days.

947 km or 588.439 miles

EDUSAT is the first Indian satellite which is for the purpose of servicing the education sector, particularly for distance education.

NASA

No

THe series of satellites sharing the name Sputnik were launched by the Russiansm the Soviet Union.

It was made out of AMG6T aluminum alloy 2mm thick

They orbited the earth, got information about earth's atmosphere, took the temperature and beeped. Same for II, except they had a dog in it!

Not much. It wasn't radioactive, it couldn't do much but beep on a radio frequency.

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