SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Description. The Sputnik 1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth and was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam (370 km southwest of the small town of Baikonur) in Kazakhstan, then part of the former Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -On Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth’s orbit. Thus, began the space age. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler, ‘’ was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first artificial Earth satellite was Sputnik-1, launched by the USSR on a Semyorka rocket on October 4, 1957 (click here for views of the Vostok version [view 1] [view2] as exhibited in 1973 at VDNKh in Moscow). This rudimentary device only carried a radio transmitter, and it made no scientific measurements.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aryabhata was the first artificial satellite launched by India on 19th April 1975.