The Soviet Union packed its celestial dreams of space exploration into a sphere and launched it into the sky, creating ...

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around ... by [W2PAK] is to know where these satellites are in the sky. The simplest way to do that is to use a smartphone app ...

A surprise advance in technology. In 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first space satellite and caught the world off guard, especially the United States. Sputnik caused the U.S. to move ...