Sputnik programme

Also known as Sputnik

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start time: 1957-00-00
end time: 1961-00-00
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Sputnik 1

Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite") is a name for multiple spacecrafts launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, and the remaining designations in the series ("Sputnik 4" and so on) were not official names but names applied in the West to objects whose original Soviet names may not have been known at the time.