However, it wasn’t the plan to use it as the first orbiter, as [Scott Manley] explains in a recent video that you can see below. The original design would become Sputnik 3, which, as [Scott ...

The Alaska researchers studied radio astronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and had their own tracking station in a ...

O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

Sputnik didn't have all the features of today's satellites, but it was sent to space with five objectives to complete. First ...

Sputnik moments are those critical moments in time when a society reacts to immense changes and takes a different direction.” ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - Facts and figures of the Soviet satellite:SIZE: 22 inches in diameter. U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON ...

And rightly so — even though Sputnik was remarkably primitive compared ... created a series of commemorative models of Earth’s first artificial moon as gifts to other countries.

TASS/. The first pilot batch of the Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus for risk groups has been shipped to the regions of Russia, a spokesperson at the Healthcare Ministry told reporters.

On any clear, dark night you can see them, gliding through the sky and reflecting sunlight from the other side of the world.

TASS/. About 19,000 people have been administered the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine in Moscow and the Moscow Region, about 6,500 of whom have already received the second component ...