• Sputnik 99 (Russian: Спутник 99, also Radio Sputnik 19 or RS-19) launched on April 2, 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on board a Soyuz-U-PVB launch...
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    names: Sputnik 4 – Korabl-Sputnik 1 Sputnik 5 – Korabl-Sputnik 2 Sputnik 6 – Korabl-Sputnik 3 Sputnik 7 – Tyazhely Sputnik Sputnik 8 – Venera 1 Sputnik 9 –...
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    Sputnik 1 (/ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk/, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth...
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    академика С. П. Королёва). In March 1958, a few months after the launch of Sputnik 1, a competition was announced for the best design of an obelisk celebrating...
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    placing Sputnik 1 into a low Earth orbit. Two versions of the Sputnik were built, the Sputnik-PS (GRAU index 8K71PS), which was used to launch Sputnik 1 and...
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    Sputnik V (Russian: Спутник V, the brand name from the Russian Direct Investment Fund or RDIF) or Gam-COVID-Vac (Russian: Гам-КОВИД-Вак, the name under...
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    Sputnik Planitia /ˈspʌtnɪk pləˈnɪʃiə, ˈspʊt-/ (originally Sputnik Planum) is a large, partially glaciated basin on Pluto. About 1,400 by 1,200 km (870...
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    programs Robotic programs Communications Sputnik programme (begun 1957) Sputnik 1 Sputnik 2 Sputnik 3 Sputnik 41 Sputnik 99 Luch (satellite) Deep Space Network...
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  • rock hits Radio 99.1 FM (EKOR) 99.1 FM Radio Gordost (Dom Muzyki) 99.5 FM - Patriotic radio (planned) Radio Sputnik (Rossiya Segodnya) 99.9 FM - News/talk...
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  • technology company founded by musician Thomas Dolby Beatnik satellite, a Sputnik-99 satellite launch aborted by Swatch in 1999 Beatniks (novel), a 1997 novel...
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  • programs Robotic programs Communications Sputnik programme (begun 1957) Sputnik 1 Sputnik 2 Sputnik 3 Sputnik 41 Sputnik 99 Luch (satellite) Deep Space Network...
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    virus Sputnik. All three Sputnik virophages share more than 99% of their DNA and can grow with viruses of any Mimiviridae group A, B, and C. Sputnik 1 was...
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  • Sputnik 41 (Russian: Спутник 41, French: Spoutnik 41), also known as Sputnik Jr 2 and Radio Sputnik 18 (RS-18), was a Franco-Russian amateur radio satellite...
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    launched in April 1999 to resupply the Mir space station and carry the Sputnik 99 satellite. Progress M-41 launched on 2 April 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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  • Trabant (redirect from Trabant Sputnik)
    'satellite' or 'companion'. The car's name was inspired by the Soviet Sputnik satellite. The cars are often referred to as "Trabbi" or "Trabi". Produced...
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  • Soyuz-U (11A511U) LC-1/5, Baikonur Successful Progress M-41 Mir Logistics Sputnik 99 15 April 1999, 00:46 Soyuz-U/Ikar (11A511U) ST-03 LC-1/5, Baikonur Successful...
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    Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy (Russian: Управляемый Спутник Активный for Controlled Active Satellite), or US-A, also known in the west as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance...
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    Space Race (section Sputnik)
    Western public attention with the "Sputnik crisis", when the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957. It gained...
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  • virus closely associated with mamavirus which was named Sputnik virophage, a satellite virus. Sputnik contains 21 genes and is tiny compared to mamavirus;...
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    Comets micrometeoroid detector, installed new experiments and deployed the Sputnik 99 subsatellite. 78 EO-27 EVA 2 Viktor Afanasyev Sergei Avdeyev 23 July 1999...
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    (Mir) Logistics 17 July 19:51 Successful Sputnik 99 AMSAT Low Earth Communications 29 July Successful Sputnik 99 deployed from Mir during EVA on 16 April...
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  • Sputnik 40 (Russian: Спутник 40, French: Spoutnik 40), also known as Sputnik Jr, PS-2 and Radio Sputnik 17 (RS-17), was a Franco-Russian amateur radio...
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  • overcall and gave it its current meaning. The bid was also briefly known as Sputnik, because it was as new as the satellite of that name that the Soviet Union...
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  • Australian acts signed to Festival Mushroom Records' development label Sputnik, which launched in 1999. The eventual track listing of their self-titled...
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    countries of the hydrogen bomb. On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 as the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth and so initiated...
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    Carbon/Silicon along with Tony James (formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik) since 2002 and was part of the Gorillaz live band for a world tour in...
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    especially after the Soviet Union launched the first-ever satellite, Sputnik, the previous year. The act authorized funding for four years, increasing...
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  • Sputnik was a JavaScript conformance test suite. The purpose of the test suite was to determine how well a JavaScript implementation adheres to the ECMA-262...
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    "Israel Introduces Arrow-3 Missile Interceptor System". Space Daily. Sputnik News. 20 January 2017. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. "Arrow...
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    launch of Sputnik in 1957, which forced the United States to re-evaluate its priorities for math and science education. NDEA was a response to Sputnik and Title...
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