Question by Rheymond Serrano: What is sputnik and how many sputniks were launched?
Can someone tell me who launched every sputnik and tell me also whether they failed or not and also the date.
Thanks.
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Answer by Gabi (Xing)
There was only one sputnik, and it was a small satellite launched by the Russians at the beginning of the Cold War Era
Didn’t do anything scientifically impressive though.. just got the Americans a bit sour
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shuvo915 says
Sputnik is the first man-made satellite launched into space in 1957 by the then Soviet Union.
It was followed by many others with the same name which were all part of the Soviet SPUTNIK PROGRAM.
The most notable of them are
Sputnik 1 (1st artificial satellite, October 4, 1957)
and Sputnik 2 (1st to carry a living animal, a dog to space, November 3, 1957)
There were many more, Just check out the Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik
Josh says
Sputnik 1 was the first spacecraft to be launched Sputnik 2 carried the first animal to space which was a dog