Sputnik 1 Satellite Model Soviet Union USSR Russian Space Program Rare

This amazing high detail quality model was produced in the Soviet Union during 1957/58 and commemorates the successful launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4th 1957.

Sputnik 1 was launched from the Tyuratam range, in Kazakh (later the Baikonur Cosmodrome). The satellite travelled at 29,000 km (18,000 mi) per hour, taking just over an hour and thirty-six minutes to complete an orbit. Sputnik's simple radio signals transmitted at around 20 and 40 MHz were monitored around the world by amateur radio operators.

Sputnik's transmissions lasted for 22 days until the transmitter's batteries became depleted on 26 October 1957. Sputnik 1 re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 4 January 1958 and was was destroyed. In the three months it spent in orbit, Sputnik travelled about 60 million km (37 million miles).

A Very Rare Collectable Model

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