The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for.
Launching of first artificial satellite.
It orbited earth in a elliptical orbit taking 96 2 minutes to complete one revolution.
Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite.
The first artificial satellite was sputnik 1 launched by the soviet union on 4 october 1957 under the sputnik program with sergei korolev as chief designer.
Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.
On october 4 1957 the soviet union stunned everyone by launching the world s first artificial satellite sputnik 1.
Sputnik 1 was only 58 cm 23 inches in diameter with four antennas sending low frequency radio signals at regular intervals.
This was the first artificial satellite any nation sent out of the earth.
This was the first human made satellite.
The first artificial satellite sputnik 1 was launched successfully by the soviet union on october 4 1957.
It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere.
On october 4 1957 the soviet union launched the earth s first artificial satellite sputnik i.
History changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.
Sputnik 1 helped to identify the density of high atmospheric layers through measurement of its orbital change and provided data on radio signal distribution in the ionosphere.
The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the united states who had hoped that the united states would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
The soviet union successfully launched the sputnik 1 satellite on oct.
The launch revealed only after it was a success stunned.
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.
Space effort into high gear.
4 1957 surprising the world and kicking off the space race.
It was an event that galvanized the world and spurred the fledgling u s.
Sputnik 2 carried the dog laika the first living creature in space.
The soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957.
No one who was alive at that time can forget the electricity of the moment when humans first lofted a satellite into orbit.
And the soviet union.
Sputnik launched the soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite.
