The satellite that started the space age - a review conducted by Semyon Semyonov in 2006
Today, 49 years ago, on October 4, 1957, the R-7 rocket was launched from a military base near the village of Tiura-Tam (later called Baikonur), carrying the first KDA satellite. After years of extremely hard work, while racing against time and pressure from all directions, the Soviet scientists and engineers, led by Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, succeeded in launching "Sputnik", a metal ball with 4 antennas, weighing 80 kilograms, into an elliptical orbit around our planet Two radio transmitters and batteries.
This is how the "space age" of humanity began, and the event that started it is a milestone in our history, as intelligent beings.
Several years ago, the fourth of October was declared as Russia's "Space Force Day" (referring to the forces responsible for protecting outer space from enemy satellites and missiles). Solemn ceremonies were held in Baikonur.
