SPUTNIK 1

SPUTNIK 1 is no longer on orbit

NORAD ID: 2
Int'l Code: 1957-001B
Launch date: October 4, 1957
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)
Decay date: 1958-01-03

The Sputnik 1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth and was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam (370 km southwest of the small town of Baikonur) in Kazakhstan, then part of the former Soviet Union. The Russian word "Sputnik" means "companion" ("satellite" in the astronomical sense).

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Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech