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 ...

On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, into orbit. This launch sparked panic in the US on account of the perceived capabilities gap between ...

CNBC's Jim Cramer in his latest X post alluded to the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek's hype and sneered at the politicization of the development, comparing it to the 1957 Sputnik ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

The U.S. has imposed export controls on the most advanced computer chips, forcing the Chinese developers to optimize their ...

comparing it to the 1957 Sputnik moment, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite, triggering a Space Race. What Happened: Cramer, in his post, indicated that the public ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 ...

Sputnik was a satellite that the Soviet Union announced it had launched on October 4, 1957, at the height of the Cold War between the two superpowers of the time. It was a world first. The news ...

“Is this a Sputnik moment?” he begins his column, referring to the first artificial Earth satellite, launched in 1957 not by the United States but by the U.S.S.R. Not entirely, Fareed contends ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...