Soviet Space Program Sputnik 8K74PS Sputnik 1

Sputnik 8K74PS

Status

Success

Date

4 OCT 1957

19:28

Launch Provider

Soviet Space Program

Launch Pad

1/5

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Overview

First artificial satellite consisting of a 58 cm pressurized aluminium shell containing two 1 W transmitters for a total mass of 83.6 kg.

Rocket

Sputnik 8K74PS

Mission Type

Test Flight

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Rocket Details

An early Russian rocket designed by Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union