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    Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite") is a name for multiple spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik...
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    List of heaviest spacecraft List of spacecraft called Sputnik List of spacecraft powered by non-rechargeable batteries List of spacecraft with electric propulsion...
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  • and Weatherday named songs after this novel. Novels portal List of spacecraft called Sputnik Jack Kerouac, an author from the Beat generation, derisively...
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  • – Orbited 22.7 kg (50 lb) satellite Explorers Program List of spacecraft called Sputnik Sputnik crisis B. Klawans (April 1960). ""The Vanguard Satellite...
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  • Sputnik (Russian: Спутник) is a 2020 Russian science-fiction horror film directed by Egor Abramenko in his feature directorial debut. It stars Oksana...
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    Sputnik, launched October 4, 1957 to orbit the Earth. Nearly all satellites, landers and rovers are robotic spacecraft. Not every uncrewed spacecraft...
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    media related to Sputnik-2. Sputnik: 50 Years Ago Anatoly Zak on Sputnik-2 Sputnik 2 Diary NSSDC Master Catalog: Spacecraft Sputnik 2 Sputnik 2 at Astronautix...
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    Sputnik 1 (/ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk/, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It...
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  • destroyed. Sputnik 41 – prior, similar AR package delivery List of spacecraft called Sputnik "Note". See weebau.com. Retrieved 2020-12-04. NOTE: Sputnik 99 (ID...
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  • to: Sputnik (rural locality), a list of rural localities in Russia Sputnik, Murmansk Oblast, Russia Sputnik Islands, Ob' Bay, Antarctica Sputnik Planitia...
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    40.002 MHz While Sputnik 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth, other human-made objects had previously reached an altitude of 100 km, which is...
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    Spacecraft operating in the inner Solar System usually rely on the use of power electronics-managed photovoltaic solar panels to derive electricity from...
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    Sergei Korolev (category Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences)
    spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1...
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  • Laika (category Sputnik)
    of the first animals in space and the first to orbit the Earth. A stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, she flew aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft,...
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    orbit; the variant was also called Vostok 1KP (or 1P). At Korolev's suggestion, the media would call the spacecraft Korabl-Sputnik, ("Satellite-ship"); the...
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    A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...
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    original on October 11, 2007. "Sputnik 1 – NSSDC ID: 1957-001B". NSSDC Master Catalog. NASA. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov...
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  • During the early years of spaceflight only nation states had the resources to develop and fly spacecraft. Both the U.S. space program and Soviet space...
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    Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without...
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    Mars 1 (redirect from Sputnik 23)
    magnitude confirmed. This spacecraft is also referenced as Sputnik 23 and Mars 2MV-4. It was originally designated Sputnik 30 in the U.S. Naval Space...
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    and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Space Race began with the 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1. This...
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    lift capability would surpass the Soviets, after having been behind since Sputnik. He last mentioned this in a speech given at Brooks Air Force Base in San...
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    This is a list of spacecraft missions (including unsuccessful ones) to the planet Mars, such as orbiters, landers, and rovers. Mission Type Legend   Mission...
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  • the crewed program, the design of which was combined with the Zenit program to produce the Vostok spacecraft. After Sputnik, Soviet scientists and program...
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    flight of the planned #Oryol spacecraft are scheduled for 2028, said the chief designer of ROS (it's not a misprint, now they call it ROS instead of ROSS)...
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    Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy (Russian: Управляемый Спутник Активный for Controlled Active Satellite), or US-A, also known in the Western world as Radar...
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    space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite...
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    Western public attention with the "Sputnik crisis", when the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957. It gained...
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    geography of Pluto refers to the study and mapping of physical features across the dwarf planet Pluto. On 14 July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft became...
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    crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. It was modeled after early 20th-century aviation prizes, and aimed to spur development of low-cost...
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