Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental ... Launched in 1989, COBE (or Cosmic Background Explorer) was the first satellite dedicated to cosmological study; it uncovered temperature ...

O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its celestial dreams of space exploration into a sphere and launched it into the ...

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 (Figure 3.1), was launched on 4 October 1957 at 6.00 am Moscow time and the event was announced by Radio Moscow that evening. Sputnik was the Russian ...

the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines again with Sputnik 2, which sent the first animal ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - Facts and figures of the Soviet satellite:SIZE: 22 inches in diameter. U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON ...

"The Sputnik satellite [in 1957] was a breakthrough and ... it's even being called upon to help the vaccine-strapped EU. Hungary was first to approve the Russian vaccine for emergency use and ...

the successful launch of the first man-made satellite by the Soviet Union activated space research in the entire world. Thanks to this comparison, the vaccine received the name of Sputnik V," the ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending ... By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno Since Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, satellites have been made with metals.

In response, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act of 1958, arguably the most successful ...