The program is operated by jsc satellite system.
First satellite launched by russia.
The first two lithuanian satellites were launched together.
Or 183 9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit earth on its elliptical path.
Except the first which launched on a kosmos 3m rocket.
The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for satellite was launched.
It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere.
Lithuania was formerly occupied by the soviet union.
Russia launches 3 gonets communication satellites 18 international smallsats.
Sputnik 1 helped to identify the density of high atmospheric layers through measurement of its orbital change and provided data on radio signal distribution in the ionosphere.
Satellite 1 or ps 1 простейший спутник 1 or prosteyshiy sputnik 1 elementary satellite 1 was the first artificial earth satellite.
Both carried to the international space station and deployed later in the year.
The world s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball 58 cm or 22 8 inches in diameter weighed only 83 6 kg.
Sputnik 1 ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k.
Sputnik and the dawn of the space age history changed on october 4 1957 when the soviet union successfully launched sputnik i.
The soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite.