Soviet Satellite 1957

6 1957 while launching the vanguard tv3 satellite on board the vanguard launch vehicle lewis said.

Soviet satellite 1957. History changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i. The soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial 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.

Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path. Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite. As early as 1955 osi had alerted president eisenhower to the soviet program through briefings and finished intelligence products. Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.

It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before. 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. In june 1957 osi reported that a soviet launch of an earth satellite was imminent noting this capability portended the ussr s production of intercontinental ballistic missiles icbms capable of reach the us. 4 1957 the soviet union launched sputnik 1 the satellite that started the space race.

On october 4 1957 the soviet union launched the earth s first artificial satellite sputnik i. Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on. Sputnik and the dawn of the space age. The soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957.

In the russian language satellite translates to sputnik and hence the name. Laika a stray mongrel from the streets of moscow was selected to be the occupant of the soviet spacecraft sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on 3 november 1957. 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. 1954 3 november 1957 was a soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space and the first animal to orbit the earth.

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. After the second world war was over the united states and. 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. The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for satellite was.