Question by mulescinner: What is the size of the first Soviet Union satolite, sputnik?
Soviet Union satolite in the 50’s was named Sputnik. What was the size of Sputnik?
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Answer by lynzzzzzzzzzz
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
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Sputnik was very small, about the size of a basketball.