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Sputnik programme
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Has part
- Korabl-Sputnik 5
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- Sputnik 1.jpg
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- start time
- 1957-00-00
- end time
- 1961-00-00
- replaced by
- Vostok programme
- Commons category
- Sputnik
- Commons gallery
- Sputnik
- topic's main category
- Category:Sputnik
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Encyclopedic overview
Sputnik 1
Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite") is a name for multiple spacecrafts launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, and the remaining designations in the series ("Sputnik 4" and so on) were not official names but names applied in the West to objects whose original Soviet names may not have been known at the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sputnik programme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.