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Sputnik 1 - Blog Posts
The real thing may have only been the size of a beach ball, but making Sputnik the same height as Yuri Gagarin was too good of an idea to pass up.
Comparative Image by Mike Gruntman, 2004
Explorer 1 (and the old man (satellite) club)
Sweet ol' girl.
Three satellites and one very good girl!
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[04/10/1957] — Бип...бип...бип...
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. It was around the size of a beach ball, weighed 83.6 kg (183.9 pounds), and took about 98 minutes to orbit Earth on its elliptical path. This ushered in a new age of political, military, technological, and scientific developments, and although the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
Happy Sputnik day!
4 October 1957 - 63 years ago today - the first artificial satellite was put in Earth’s orbit by the Soviet Union.
