By: Conner Nelson

By: Conner Nelson

Sputnik 1

History• Sputnik 1 was the first orbiting satellite.• Sputnik 1 started the space race.• It was launched on October 4 1957.• It took 98 minutes to orbit earth.• It was launched by the Soviet Union.

Sputnik 1 Facts• Sputnik 1 was 23 inches wide.• The mission was 3 months long.• It was fueled by Liquid Rocket Fuel.

Design Process• The first part of the design process is “Identify the Problem” this was used because they needed to get to the moon some

how.• The second step is brainstorm. They people “brainstormed” because they had to decide how to make the spacecraft fly far

enough to get into space and make it fly into orbit.• The third step is “Design”. The spacecraft was involved in design because Sergei Korolev had to figure out how to design the

spacecraft itself and how to make fuel that will get it into space.• Sergei Korolev “built and evaluate , redesign” the spacecraft. Then they tested it and it worked but they then made Sputnik

2. Which was the redesigned form.• They “shared” it by putting it in the news paper and all the people watching the news and things.

BibliographyMY DIIGO PAGE!!!!!!!!!!

Just kidding, UNO more pages after this one. Timeline.

TimelineSputnik 1 was first started building in 1952.

Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4 1957.

January 4 1958 sputnik 1 fell out of orbit.

Sputnik 2 was launched November 3 1957.