Sputnik 3

Also known as Object D, D No. 2, 3-y ISZ, 3-y Sovetskiy ISZ

Soviet research satellite

Key facts

Mission type: Earth Science
Operator: OKB-1
Harvard designation: 1958 Delta 2
Cospar id: 1958-004B
Satcat number span no: 00008
Website: NASA NSSDC Master Catalog
Mission duration: 692 days
Manufacturer: Korolev Design Bureau
Launch mass: 1,327 kilograms (2,926 lb)
Launch date: 15 May 1958, 07:12:00 ( 1958-05-15UTC07:12Z ) UTC
Rocket: Sputnik 8A91
Launch site: Baikonur 1/5
Decay date: April 6, 1960
Reference system: Geocentric
Regime: Low Earth
Semi major axis: 7,418.7 kilometres (4,609.8 mi)
Perigee altitude: 217 kilometres (135 mi)
Apogee altitude: 1,864 kilometres (1,158 mi)

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Wikidata facts

Duration: 59788800
Diameter: 1.73
Mass: 1327
Orbital period: 105.9
Image: Sputnik-3 in Kaluga 2.jpg
Length: 3.57

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semi-major axis of an orbit: 7418.7
Commons category: Sputnik-3
UTC date of spacecraft launch: 1958-05-15
orbital inclination: 65.18
periapsis: 217
apoapsis: 11864
orbital eccentricity: 0.110932
time of object orbit decay: 1960-04-06

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Universal newsreel about the Soviet Union's Industrial Exhibition in 1958 featuring a replica of Sputnik 3 Sputnik 3 (Russian: Спутник-3, Satellite 3) was a Soviet satellite launched on 15 May 1958 from Baikonur Cosmodrome by a modified R-7/SS-6 ICBM. The scientific satellite carried a large array of instruments for geophysical research of the upper atmosphere and near space.

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