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On October 4, 1957, Soviet satellite Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, blast into space and transmitted information via radio signals to Soviet scientists for three weeks. ... Sputnik II was launched in November 1957 with a a dog called Laika aboard. The flight allowed Russian scientists to learn much about...
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History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
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Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sputnik 1 (Russian: , "Satellite-1", ПС-1 ( PS-1 , i.e. "Простейший Спутник-1", or Elementary Satellite-1 )) was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into...
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There were several failed attempts at placing man-made hardware into orbit around the earth. The first success was the Sputnik-1 satellite, launched by the Soviet Union (USSR) on October 4, 1957.
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Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction of Dr. ...
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Iran launches its first satellite into space from Plesetsk in northern Russia, in a joint Russian-Iranian project. ... Iran launched its first satellite into space from Plesetsk in northern Russia on Thursday, joining a select club of countries. ... First student satellite lifts off ; 27 Oct 05 | Science/Nature...
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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Venezuela's first satellite roared into space Thursday from a launching pad in southwest China. ... The telecommunications satellite will let rural communities in Venezuela access educational and medical information that has been difficult for them to come by as a result of their relative isolation,
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On January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first U.S. satellite launched into orbit. It came four months after the launch of the world's first satellite, the former Soviet Union's Sputnik 1. While the Soviet satellite weighed 184 pounds (83...
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Satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural...
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