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First man-made satellite to orbit the earth
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Sputnik is the name of several rural localities in Russia : Sputnik, Chelyabinsk Oblast , a settlement in Travnikovsky Selsoviet of Chebarkulsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast ; Sputnik, Krasnodar Krai , a settlement under the administrative jurisdiction ...
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n. 1 (label en historical) Any of a series of Soviet unmanned space satellites, especially the first one in 1957. 2 (label en dated) Any artificial satellite.
Usage examples of sputnik.
Vulcan looked at each other and we drank and then Stok gave me one of his gold-rimmed oval cigarettes and lit it with a nickel-silver sputnik.
Jo Knowles, Kelly Manison, Peter McNamara, Sputnik, Nick Stathopoulos, Jonathan Strahan, Louise Thurtell, Damien Warman and Juliette Woods.
Hell, those damn Sputniks looked like these foo fight- These foo fighters are obviously too small to carry a per- ers.
In 1957, well before Russia put Sputnik up, he devised a way for the gang at Wallops Island to put one of our little machines into orbit.
If this was a balata ball, a big league cull, Henryd just launched it into low earth orbit, a pre-Sputnik Sputnik.
I remember that when Sputnik came along, it seemed to me to be somewhat after the fact.
Now, great Higgs boson factories were taking shape in the rings of machinery orbiting Sputnik, icy gas and dust congealing into beat-wave particle accelerators on the edge of planetary space.
From a purely strategic standpoint, the fact that the Soviets had the rocket power to launch Sputnik 1 meant that they now also had the capacity to deliver the bomb on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, exploded their first thermonuclear weapon, and successfully tested the first intercontinental ballistic missile (almost a year ahead of the United States).
How do you think they managed to put their Sputnik into orbit while our satellite was still on the laboratory bench?
With his usual flair for publicity, Sir Lawrence arranged for her maiden flight to commence on the hundredth anniversary of Sputnik Day, 4 October 2057.
Every ten thousand seconds or so, another hazardous multigram payload shipped out on a beam-riding cargo pod to the starwisp assembly zone around Sputnik.
Anyway, we try to play the angles when it comes to saving our peoples lives, and Sputnik was equipped with a new escape program.
Four months ago, the Soviet Union had stunned the world by sending up the first space satellite, the Sputnik.
It struck Malenfant as remarkable how little space technology seemed to have progressed in seventy years since the first Sputnik.