Launch Alert | 4x Astranis MicroGEO
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Success
Fri Oct 04 1957
Soviet Space Program

Sputnik 1

Launch Successful
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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Rocket Details

Name:

Sputnik 8K74PS

Description:

An early Russian rocket designed by Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union

Sputnik 8K74PS rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Test Flight
  • First artificial satellite consisting of a 58 cm pressurized aluminium shell containing two 1 W transmitters for a total mass of 83.6 kg.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Pad

1/5