The launch of sputnik 1957.
Ussr satellite 1957.
At the present time the satellite is describing elliptical.
The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for satellite was.
After the second world war was over the united states and.
Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite.
Sputnik 1 the first artificial satellite launched was a 83 6 kg 184 pound capsule.
It achieved an earth orbit with an apogee farthest point from earth of 940 km 584 miles and a perigee nearest point of 230 km 143 miles circling.
On this day in 1957 humans sent their first satellite into space.
On october 4 1957 the soviet union launched the earth s first artificial satellite sputnik i.
The former soviet union fueled the space race on this day in 1957 when it successfully launched the first artificial satellite named sputnik into the earth s orbit.
Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.
The soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957.
It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before.
In the russian language satellite translates to sputnik and hence the name.
History changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.
The first artificial satellite in the world has been created.
Sputnik and the dawn of the space age.
On october 4 1957 this first satellite was successfully launched in the ussr.
Sputnik any of a series of three artificial earth satellites the first of whose launch by the soviet union on october 4 1957 inaugurated the space age.
It weighed 184 pounds and traveled.
According to preliminary data the carrier rocket has imparted to the satellite the required orbital velocity of about 8000 meters per second.
Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path.
The soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite.