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Sputnik , or , i.e., Elementary Satellite was the first artificial Earth satellite . The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October It was a diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses w

1957 The Sputnik Program (Created by Thomas Alcorn, History 135, August 2007) Assignment    Background    Chronology    Further Reading    Links BACKGROUND The Sputnik Program was a series of five space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. There are a variety