Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite, launched Oct. 4, 1957. (Image credit: NASA) World Space Week 2020 will celebrate the impact of satellites on humanity from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10.

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

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...

The Space Age officially began when the USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. ... but its desire to beat the United States to space prompted it to send the considerably smaller satellite first.

The original design would become Sputnik 3, which, as [Scott] puts it, was the first Soviet satellite that “didn’t suck.” The first one was essentially a stunt, and the second one had an ...

The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. Throughout the 1960s and during the Cold War, space was a testing ground for government-funded satellites sent by the Soviets and ...

Fears about Sputnik evaporated as three months later the U.S. launched its own satellite, Explorer 1, and eventually took the lead in the race for space. Almost 70 later, satellites are part of ...