COLUMN. Le Monde columnist Sylvie Kauffmann looks back at the Soviet launch of the satellite in 1957, and President ...

O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned ...

The New York Times’ Oct. 7, 1957 edition included a front-page headline of “SATELLITE SEEN IN ALASKA,” and Sputnik caused a big fuss all over the country. People wondered about the ...

Earth's Space Age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union ... dying before a month's time didn't stop Sputnik from ...

1957. In October, the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik I. It was followed in November by the spacecraft Sputnik 2, which carried Laika, the first animal to orbit the Earth. In ...

The release of DeepSeek’s innovative and efficient artificial intelligence model has been heralded as such a turning point — ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - Facts and figures of the Soviet satellite:SIZE: 22 inches in diameter. U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON ...

One is the strategic salience of the moment. Historical comparisons are odious, but in terms of the sheer shock it produced, ...