The original design would become Sputnik 3, which, as [Scott] puts it, was the first Soviet satellite that “didn’t suck.” The first one was essentially a stunt, and the second one had an ...

O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

but its desire to beat the United States to space prompted it to send the considerably smaller satellite first. Tensions were ...

In October, the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik I. It was followed in November by the spacecraft Sputnik 2, which carried Laika, the first animal to orbit the Earth. In ...

It is fifty years since the launch of Sputnik ... Soviet launch, President Eisenhower met with his hitherto inactive science committee and, by early November, had appointed Killian as the first ...

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

China's AI breakthrough already has made its mark across global financial markets, Federated Hermes' James Cook reports ...

Until relatively recently, humans were limited by the horizon. Climate scientists of the early 20th century could gather data ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--Sputnik sped around the world ... was never in a race with Russia to get the first satellite into orbit. Ike Declaration on Russian Bid WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--President Eisenhower ...

Why being first to ... artificial satellite. But, on the morning of Oct. 4, the Soviet Union struck first and lobbed a small metal ball into orbit that Moscow Radio called Sputnik ("Fellow Traveler").