LaunchesSputnik 1
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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 8K74PS · Test Flight
19571/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Mission
First artificial satellite consisting of a 58 cm pressurized aluminium shell containing two 1 W transmitters for a total mass of 83.6 kg.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Rocket
- Sputnik 8K74PS
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- 1/5
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2