D-1 1

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 27 Apr 1958, 07:00 am UTC

Rocket: Sputnik 8A91 (Sputnik)

Provider: Soviet Space Program

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

First complex scientific satellite with 12 experiments and a total mass of1327 kg. It failed to reach orbit due to a launch vehicle failure.