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

Earth's Space Age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched the first human-made satellite into space, much to the surprise and disappointment of the United States ...

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

From unbelievable images captured in space to predictions of asteroids colliding with Earth, we've researched a variety of ...

Both of these satellite classes were soon indispensable to the military and civilian sectors. A satellite was first placed into geosynchronous orbit in 1963 (ref. 2).

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 ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

When the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, it marked a leap forward in space technology, triggering a “space race” with the American space program. Source: Alexandra_Koch/Pixabay ...

Recently, SPUTNIK has begun to cooperate with the Foreign Students Association, a group formed by foreign students studying ...

The world's first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, ...