6:07PM GMT 10 Nov 2014. Russia has launched a new state-run international media brand called Sputnik to counter what it calls a unipolar view of the world promoted by an overbearing and destructive United States.
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The enormous resonance of the Sputnik launch was also thanks to the multifaceted nature of this single event and its ability to simultaneously break so many assumptions, long-standing theories and even entire political strategies. Tikhonravov, Mikhail Klavdievich. (July 29, 1900 - March 3, 1974).
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The Soviet Union went on to launch a series of additional Sputnik satellites. Sputnik 2, for example, carried a dog into space, named Laika. Sputnik 2 weighed 1120 pounds. It was launched on November 3, 1957. The launch site was again the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located near the city of Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, close to the Aral Sea. Laika was first living creature to orbit the Earth.
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1957/11/3/soviet-union-launches-sputnik-2
Radio station and website will push back at Western news outlets and show “everyone is entitled to live in their own way”. Russia has launched a new state-run international media brand called Sputnik to counter what it calls a unipolar view of the world promoted by an overbearing and destructive United States.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11221511/Russia-launches-Sputnik-media-offensive-to-counter-US-propaganda.html
To meet politically important window, OKB-1 proposed the Soviet government an offer it could not refuse -- to precede Object D with a prosteishy sputnik, or simplest satellite, also known by Russian abbreviation as PS. With the launch mass of only 80-100 kilograms, and it could be launched in April-May 1957. A version of the R-7 rocket, which was destined to carry the first satellite into orbit, carried a rather long designation -- 8K71PS No. 1 M1-PS. It featured several upgrades deferring it from previous R-7 test vehicles.
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Origin of the Sputnik project. In the post-World War II USSR, a group of scientists led by Mikhail Tikhonravov at the newly created NII-4 military institute pioneered the work, which would ultimately lead to the first Soviet artificial satellite.
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Radio station and website will push back at Western news outlets and show “everyone is entitled to live in their own way”. Dmitry Kiselev told an audience in Moscow that Sputnik would operate 'multi-media hubs' with 30 to 100 staff Photo: AFP.
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The launch vehicle with the PS-1 satellite blasted off on October 4, 1957 at 22:28:34 Moscow Time. (250) (It was already October 5 in Tyuratam.) Before the satellite completed its first orbit, TASS, the official Soviet news agency, announced the launch to the world.
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History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. 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. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
To promote this outlook our media group is launching a new global brand, Sputnik. In this world, Japan is Japanese, Turkey is Turkish, China is Chinese and Russia is Russian. We are not suggesting that other nations should adopt the Russian way of life. We believe everyone is entitled to live in their own way..
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when was sputnik launched
Sputnik was launched in 1957.