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Sputnik 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 4 Oct 1957, 07:28 pm UTC
Rocket: Sputnik 8K74PS (Sputnik)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Test Flight
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
First artificial satellite consisting of a 58 cm pressurized aluminium shell containing two 1 W transmitters for a total mass of 83.6 kg.