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Date: 15 May 1958, 07:00 am UTC
Rocket: Sputnik 8A91 (Sputnik)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
First complex scientific satellite to reach orbit.