Space AtlasSPUTNIK 1
NORAD 2 · Payload · Reentered 1958-01-03
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- 1957-10-04 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 84 kg
- Size
- 0.6 × 0.6 m · 2.9 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 64 × 1,080 km
- Inclination
- 65.0°
- Period
- 96.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0732
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.