Oct. 4th, 1957: Sputnik Launches
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On the evening of October 4, 1957, a rocket carrying a small aluminum sphere took off from the steppes of Kazakhstan. A few minutes later, Sputnik-1 separated from it and began to orbit the Earth. For the first time, mankind put an artificial object into orbit. The launch took place at 22:28 Moscow time from site No. 1 in the Tyura-Tam region - a facility that later received the name Baikonur Cosmodrome. The rocket was developed on the basis of …
Oct. 4th, 1957: Sputnik launches
On Oct. 4th, 1957, at 10:29 PM Moscow time, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1 into space on a repurposed R-7 rocket. The world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik was about 22 inches (58 centimeters) in diameter and weighed 184 pounds (84 kilograms). Although there were no scientific instruments aboard, the transmitter it carried sentContinue reading "Oct. 4th, 1957: Sputnik launches"
On October 4, 1957, the first artificial Earth satellite was launched in the USSR
The satellite was launched by the R-7 carrier rocket from the test site, the future Baikonur cosmodrome.The spacecraft PS - 1 was a ball with a diameter of 58 cm, weighed 83.6 kg and was equipped with four pin antennas.295 seconds after the launch...
A small metal ball with four antennas made Americans doubt their own safety. On October 4, 1957, the USSR was the first to launch a satellite into orbit. Life.ru explains why its signals were so alarming and how this launch changed history.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the Space Age with the successful launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite; an event that shocked the American scientific and military community and initiated the historic race to conquer space.
In 1957, humanity entered the space age. Ukrainians have made one of the most significant contributions to this achievement. And first of all, one of them is Sergey Korolev (12.01.1907-14.01.1966), who led the work on the creation of the first artificial satellite of the Earth. A native of Zhytomyr, the general designer of the rocket and space industry of the USSR, he spent more than six years in Stalin's prisons, camps and “sharashki”, and reha…
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