When Sputnik 1 (out of 3)launched on October 4, 1957 during the cold war by the Soviet Union it shocked the world especially the United States. It was launched with little warning except on announcement on what channel it would be broadcasted on. The launch happened at 22:28:34 Moscow Time and was launched on a V-9 rocket ( a modified missile). The satellite was the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. Sputnik had 4 radio transmitters and did 1,400 orbits. The launch was very successful with little error and “as the rocket dissipated into the night sky Korolev, Tikhonravov, Bushuev, Reshetnev and Ivanovsky the creators rushed …show more content…
When the public of the U.S heard the russians had put a satellite into space the thought “Now the russian can bomb us from space” Now this event encouraged the U.S to put the man on the moon. This also made the U.S speed up the launch of their first rocket and it blew up 2 seconds after launch. This event marked the start of the space age. These are the events of the launch as they were recorded T+0 liftoff, AT+6 sob system failure, T+116.38 stage 1+2 separated, T+295.4 stage 2 engine cutoff, T+296.4 stage 2 true engine cutoff, T+324.4 deployment of sputnik. This was the world's first artificial satellite and a wonderful improvement to the world. On day 22 the transitions stopped from sputnik. The reason for this was battery death. Sputnik in russian means “Fellow traveler” There was officially 3 sputniks all together that were launched. Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Sputnik 3 were these 3 russian satellite. Sputnik two carried the world's first space traveler a dog. Sputnik 2 was launched on november 3. The rockets the satellites were launched on made about 882 orbits before crashing into the earth. The signal lasted 2 minutes before going out of …show more content…
But it was mainly built for military recognitions. Dennis kearney pressed the button to launch the satellite. This event actually created a reason NASA and other space programs. The event caused the soviet union to lose the space race. Soon after the powered flight of the rocket was over, operators of the Trail system received the signal about the engine cutoff. After a short pause, Lieutenant Borisov, manning a radio in a cottage at the IP-1 tracking station, heard from the satellite. (Russian space web) Shortly after the station had lost signal with the satellite the Soviet union announced the launch to the world. The satellite transmitted temperature data from space before its power source went dead. Before the flight the soviet officials gave hints to the world. on Aug. 26, 1957 the official Soviet Agency, announced that a multistage ballistic missile flew a successful test mission. This announcement got little attention from the west. The fueling of the rocket started at 5:45 Moscow Time. On famous thing that happend in the development was the creator yelling at the engineers to make it look perfect because it would be in a museum one