Russia launches 3 gonets communication satellites 18 international smallsats.
First satellite launched by russia.
Sputnik 1 helped to identify the density of high atmospheric layers through measurement of its orbital change and provided data on radio signal distribution in the ionosphere.
Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite.
Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.
The program is operated by jsc satellite system.
Except the first which launched on a kosmos 3m rocket.
Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path.
Lithuania was formerly occupied by the soviet union.
The world s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball 58 cm or 22 8 inches in diameter weighed only 83 6 kg.
It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere.
The first artificial satellite was sputnik 1 launched by the soviet union on 4 october 1957 under the sputnik program with sergei korolev as chief designer.
The first two lithuanian satellites were launched together.
Sputnik and the dawn of the space age history changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.
The soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite.
The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for satellite was launched.