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 * // Sputnik //**

By: Brenden Goldizen Launched on October 4, 1957

[|Launch of Sputnik] __Who, What, When, Where, and Why__ //**


 * Sputnik was the worlds first artificial satellite
 * Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957
 * The USSR were the ones to lauch the world's first artificial satellite called Sputnik
 * It was about the size of a beach ball, 58 cm
 * It weighed 183.9 pounds
 * It took Sputnik about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path
 * Sputnik traveled around the world at 18,000 miles an hour
 * It was 560 miles high
 * Scientists used oscilloscopes to analyze Sputnik's signals in space
 * It contained a single radio transmitter, which did little more than issue an incessant beeping that allowed even the most primitive instruments to track it
 * This event marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race
 * The U.S and the USSR at the time was competing in the spece race to put a sattelite into orbit first
 * USSR won but the U.S responded less than six months later when they put explorer one into orbit
 * Sputnik 1 was launched from Kazakhstan (A country of west-central Asia, south of Russia) at site no. 1 NIIP-5, where the Baikonor Cosmodrome is now
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