First Satellite Launched Into Space

Nasa s first true meteorological satellite was tiros 1 designed to test whether or not it was even practical to look at weather from space.
First satellite launched into space. It was an event that galvanized the world and spurred the fledgling u s. The soviet union s sputnik 1 and 2 beginning the cold war space race between the two nations. History changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i. Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.
The soviet union was the pioneering country to launch such a body to the orbit of the earth on october 4 1957. No one who was alive at that time can forget the electricity of the moment when humans first lofted a satellite into orbit. Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path. Participation in the international geophysical year.
On october 4 1957 the soviet union stunned everyone by launching the world s first artificial satellite sputnik 1. Space effort into high gear. The main architect was sergei korolev a rocket scientist who named it sputnik 1. Australia with the first successful launch from woomera test range of its first satellite wresat on 29 november 1967 by us sparta.
The 1958 launch of the satellite twice the size of a basketball was an important moment for the country as the space race with the. The world s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball 58 cm or 22 8 inches in diameter weighed only 83 6 kg. The soviet union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on 4 october 1957. Nasa was established in 1958 to keep u s.
That launch ushered in new political military technological and scientific developments. Space efforts abreast of recent soviet achievements such as the launching of the world s first artificial satellite sputnik 1 in 1957. In the late 1950s. Explorer 1 was the united states first satellite in space.
Sputnik 1 was the first ever satellite to be constructed and propelled into space. The spacecraft launched on april 1 1960 and took over 22 000 photographs of cloud cover before it was shut down in june of the same year. The second and final successful orbital launch from woomera was performed on 28 october 1971 by the uk black arrow and there are no further launches scheduled. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere.