We cried.
If they can put a satellite in orbit they can launch a H-bomb at us too. It wasn't quite true with Sputnik 1, but it was with Sputnik 2.
It means it was the first sputnik.
Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 were artificial satellites that traveled around the Earth. People thought that Sputnik 1 was spying on them, but all it did was transmit a simple tracking signal for 3 weeks.
Sputnik 1 was a Russian satellite.
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Because the Sputnik program ended with Sputnik 3. Albeit there was a Sputnik 40 and 41 but these were to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Sputnik 1.
the name of the first satellite is Sputnik
It started the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Yes, both were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
After the launches by the USSR of Sputnik 1 (October 4, 1957) and Sputnik 2 (November 3, 1957), the US finally succeeded with Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958. Sputnik 1 had already fallen from orbit, and Sputnik 2 did so as well in April, 1958, following the March launch of Vanguard 1, the second US satellite and the oldest satellite still orbiting the Earth.
The only known contents of Sputnik 1 are Electronics and some batteries.
Yes, Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth over 1000 times