FIRST

SATELL
ITE
Group 6
 Member of group

1.Mai Thị San San 2.Phan Mạnh Việt

3.Tạ Phương Quý 4. Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Diễm

THE FIRST SATELLITE

01 INTRODUCTION

02 GENERAL
INFORMATION

03 THE MISSION OF
IT
 THE WORLD’S
FIRST SATELLITE
What is satellite?
- An object intentionally
placed into orbit in outer
space
Sputnik 1
1957
 GENRERAL
INFORMATION ABOUT
SPUTNIK 1
 Sputnik 1

- Sputnik - companion (satellite in the astronomical sense)

- The first in a series of four satellites
- Some important parameters of Sputnik 1
 Sputnik 1
- Some important parameters of Sputnik 1:
+. A 58.0 cm-diameter aluminum sphere that carried four whip-like
antennas that were 2.4-2.9m long
+.Transmitter operated at 20.005 and 40.002 MHz
THE MISSIONS
OF SPUTNIK 1
MISSIONS

Mark the beginning

“Open a Space race”
of the Space Age
- To test if it
Mark thewas possible to place a satellite into orbit
beginning
of the Space Age
- It’s transmitters generated radio signal heard around the
wworld marked the beginning of the Space Age
 “Open a Space race”

- The Soviet Union followed it up with Sputnik 2

- Today, more than 2000 artificial satellite orbit the earth,
thousands of man-made objects launched into space over
the last 60 years
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