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Sputnik 1957 – history’s first artificial signals from space

Hear the FIRST-ever artificial signals from space, transmitted by the #USSR‘s #Sputnik1 on 4 October 1957.

Sputnik 1957 – history’s first artificial signals from space

History changed on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm across), weighed only 83.6 kg