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Sputnik I was less than 2 feet in diameter (22.8 inches or 58 cm) and had a mass of 184 pounds (83.6 kg).

For comparison, the inside diameter of a basketball hoop is 18 inches.

2006-10-06 17:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 68 0

The satellite tv for pc weighed approximately eighty 3 kg (184 pounds). The Sputnik a million satellite tv for pc replace right into a fifty 8.0 cm-diameter aluminum sphere that carried 4 whip-like antennas that have been 2.4-2.9 m long. The antennas appeared like long "whiskers" pointing to a minimum of one area. It had 2 radio transmitters (20 and 40 MHz) and is theory to have orbited Earth at a top of approximately 250 km (a hundred and fifty miles). prognosis of the radio alerts replace into used to hold mutually guidance bearing directly to the electron density of the ionosphere. Temperature and tension have been encoded in the era of radio beeps, indicating the satellite tv for pc replace into no longer punctured with the aid of a meteorite. Sputnik a million replace into released with the aid of an R-7 rocket. It incinerated upon re-get entry to on January 3, 1958.

2016-12-08 09:53:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Sputnik was about the size of a basketball, and weighed 183 pounds.

2006-10-07 02:01:18 · answer #3 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0 0

It was a little bit bigger than a soccer ball. It had six aerials sticking out. It contained a radio transmitter broadcasting a beep beep beep audio signal on 20.0005 MHz. So anybody with a reasonably sensitive short wave receiver could pick it up.

2006-10-06 17:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0 0

It was H-U-U-GE in terms of being the first satellite launched by mankind to reach space. The Russians beat the Americans to it, and will always be remembered as the first to achieve it. Can't say much for the name they gave it, though.
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2006-10-06 23:24:51 · answer #5 · answered by Spica 4 · 0 1

i think it was about the size of a basketball

2006-10-08 10:05:33 · answer #6 · answered by justine o 1 · 0 0

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