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Sputnik 3
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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
- Part of
- Sputnik programme
- Followed by
- Korabl-Sputnik 1
- Follows
- Sputnik 2
- Duration
- 59788800
- Parent body
- Earth
- Diameter
- 1.73
- Mass
- 1327
- Orbital period
- 105.9
- Image
- Sputnik-3 in Kaluga 2.jpg
- Length
- 3.57
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 7418.7
- Commons category
- Sputnik-3
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1958-05-15
- space launch vehicle
- Sputnik
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- orbital inclination
- 65.18
- periapsis
- 217
- apoapsis
- 11864
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.110932
- time of object orbit decay
- 1960-04-06
- start point
- Gagarin's Start
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
1958 Soviet Union stamp
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sputnik 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.