Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

As rocket technology improved and spaceflight ... the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines ...

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 (Figure 3.1), was launched on 4 October 1957 at ... Colonel Gregory Tokayev, a Russian rocket expert who had sought refuge in England, expressed the ...

the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, into low Earth orbit. Sputnik's launch caused fear of the Soviets using new rocket technology for military purposes and caught ...

They had already launched Sputnik and sent Yuri Gagarin to orbit ... the system instead of wasting it. For the first N-1 launch, the rocket was powered by 30 of these closed-cycle engines, each ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen ... of overheating before four orbits were completed 1. Nonetheless, even a month later, Vanguard could not ...

Less than a month earlier, when the Soviets shocked the world with the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial ... in the event of a pressure leak. The rocket that lifted Laika to space was ...

was deployed off a SpaceX rocket in May 2022. Sending a satellite into space is nothing new, of course. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into Earth orbit back in 1957. Today, about 10,000 ...