USA HISTORY

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: -The Sputnik rocket was an uncrewed orbital carrier rocket designed by Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union, derived from the R-7 Semyorka ICBM. On 4 October 1957, it was used to perform the world’s first satellite launch, placing Sputnik 1 into a low Earth orbit.

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: -Korolev also oversaw the R-7 rocket’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite. The design of the R-7 was based on Nazi Germany’s V2 rocket, a weapon used during World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. 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. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit Earth on its elliptical path.