Question by Robby: is the Sputnik still orbiting the earth today?
Spitnik-first satellite to orbit around the earth
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Answer by Steve
no it feel along time ago all it did was send morse code messages back and forth
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The Black Hole&t says
Sputnik 1 burned up on January 4, 1958 as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after traveling about 60 million km (37 million miles) and spending 3 months in orbit.
Sly says
Why didn't you just wikipedia it? You'd get such a better answer than on Yahoo.
"Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958 as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after traveling about 60 million km (37 million miles) and spending 3 months in orbit."
Grimm says
nope heres a good page to look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
30stm4life says
Nope, it's long gone. It burned up in 1958 when it reentered our atmosphere.