When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

Decades ago during the heady space race rivalry between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the entire world experienced the Sputnik moment when the first artificial satellite orbited ...

In an unprecedented feat in space exploration, China has successfully launched a dozen satellites as part of a groundbreaking ...

Last week Assistant Secretary of the Navy James H. Smith Jr., taking public notice of the fact, announced that the first satellite will not take to space until early in 1958. As to problems of ...

the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later ...

Despite that glitch, this was another technological and PR victory for the Soviet Union just three and a half years after they launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. Gagarin was the ...

He even coined the word “cosmonaut.” But perhaps his greatest triumph was Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, which was launched on October 4, 1957. Over the years, much of the ...