Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path.
Launching of first artificial satellite.
Sputnik launched the soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite.
Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.
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.
Sputnik 2 carried the dog laika the first living creature in space.
Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite.
Sputnik 1 launched october 4 1957 was the first artificial satellite and the beginning of the space race between the u s.
Sputnik 1 was only 58 cm 23 inches in diameter with four antennas sending low frequency radio signals at regular intervals.
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.
And the soviet union.
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.
The launch revealed only after it was a success stunned.
On october 4 1957 the soviet union launched the earth s first artificial satellite sputnik i.
On october 4 1957 the soviet union stunned everyone by launching the world s first artificial satellite sputnik 1.
No one who was alive at that time can forget the electricity of the moment when humans first lofted a satellite into orbit.
The soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957.
This was the first artificial satellite any nation sent out of the earth.
The soviet union rocketed sputnik into space on oct.
History changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.
The soviet union successfully launched the sputnik 1 satellite on oct.
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.
The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for.
It orbited earth in a elliptical orbit taking 96 2 minutes to complete one revolution.
It was an event that galvanized the world and spurred the fledgling u s.
4 1957 surprising the world and kicking off the space race.