The launch is October 7 1957, was launched during the International Geophysical Year from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR (now...
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...
Fascinating video reconstructing the first-ever satellite brought into space, on the 4th of October 1957. It's a six minute programme on the launching of "Sputnik"...
Sputnik 1 en.wikipedia.org Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Cпутник-1") was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low...
Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Спутник-1", "Satellite-1", byname ПС-1 (PS-1, ie "Простейший Спутник-1", or Elementary Satellite-1)) was the first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit....