14450 Eastern Express 1/144 scales of the Missile-carrier "SATELLITE" SP-1

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USSR, Cold war

Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth satellite, was launched into orbit on 4 October 1957. The code designation of the satellite is PS-1 (the Simplest Satellite is 1). The launch was carried out by the Sputnik launch vehicle (R-7) from the 5th research site of the Ministry of defense of the USSR "tyura-Tam" (later called the Baikonur cosmodrome).

On the creation of an artificial satellite of the Earth, led by the founder of practical Astronautics S. P. Korolev worked as scientists M. V. Keldysh, M. K. Tihonov, N. With.Lidorenko, V. I. Lapko, BS Chekunov, etc.

the Satellite flew 92 days, until January 4, 1958, having made 1440 revolutions around the Earth (about 60 million km), its radio transmitters worked for two weeks after launch.