First Satellite Launched By Russia

Sputnik and the dawn of the space age history changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.

First satellite launched by russia. 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 satellite was launched. Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path. Lithuania was formerly occupied by 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 first two lithuanian satellites were launched together. Russia launches 3 gonets communication satellites 18 international smallsats. 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.

The first artificial satellite was sputnik 1 launched by the soviet union on 4 october 1957 under the sputnik program with sergei korolev as chief designer. Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k. The program is operated by jsc satellite system. Except the first which launched on a kosmos 3m rocket.

Both carried to the international space station and deployed later in the year. The soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957.