The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957, making it the first man-made satellite to orbit the planet.
The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957, making it the first man-made satellite to orbit the planet. The satellite, a basketball-sized, 85-kilogram (187-pound), metal sphere that orbited the Earth at 29,000 kilometres per hour (18,000 miles per hour) for three months, was put into orbit by a massive rocket.
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