Cosmic Exploration · mission
Sputnik 1
1957 · Roscosmos · Low Earth orbit · Completed
- Agency
- Roscosmos
- Status
- Completed
- End Date
- 1958-01-04
- Destination
- Low Earth orbit
- Launch Date
- 1957-10-04
Objective
A polished 58 cm sphere with four trailing antennas, beeping on 20 and 40 MHz. It carried no instruments worth the name and did almost nothing, and it changed the century.
Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.