First Satellite Launched By Russia

The soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite.

First satellite launched by russia.

The program is operated by jsc satellite system. 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 soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957.

Except the first which launched on a kosmos 3m rocket. Lithuania was formerly occupied by the soviet union. The first two lithuanian satellites were launched together. Russia launches 3 gonets communication satellites 18 international smallsats.

Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k. 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. 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. Sputnik and the dawn of the space age history changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.

Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite. Both carried to the international space station and deployed later in the year.