THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sputnik, any of a series of three artificial Earth satellites, the first of whose launch by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, inaugurated the space age. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched, was a 83.6-kg (184-pound) capsule.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sputnik 1 was launched during the International Geophysical Year from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR (now known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome). The satellite traveled at a peak speed of about 8 km/s (18, 000 mph), taking 96.20 minutes to complete each orbit.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet satellite states were Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and Albania (Yugoslavia and Albania were satellite states until they broke off from the Soviet in 1948 and 1960, respectively).
Detailed explanation-4: -On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik-1, the world’s first artificial satellite. Only about the size of a beach ball (22.8 inches or 58 cm.