Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit ... that repeats every 2 hours Blue Skies Space to build satellite fleet around the moon to map the ancient universe What they launched had only a set ...

Several replicas of the Sputnik 1 satellite have been showcased at museums in Russia, and another is on display at the ...

AFP Contributor/AFP/Getty Images Sputnik proved that the Soviet Union had a rocket large enough to put a satellite in orbit. Sputnik weighed about 80 kilograms — compare to Explorer One ...

Oct. 4—66 years ago, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world into the space race after sending the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit. Sputnik 1 weighed around 184 pounds and ...

In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands.