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Sputnik (Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk]; formerly Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti, naming derived from Russian спутник, "satellite") is a Russian state-owned [1] news agency and radio broadcast service. It was established by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya on 10 November 2014.
That was the most immediate threat that Sputnik 1 posed. The United States, a land with a history of geographical security from European wars because of its distance, suddenly seemed vulnerable. A contributing factor to the Sputnik crisis was that the Soviets had not released a photograph of the satellite for five days after the launch. [7]
[154] [155] Microsoft removed RT and Sputnik from MSN, the Microsoft Store, and the Microsoft Advertising network on the same day. [156] YouTube, on 1 March, banned access to all RT and Sputnik channels on its platform in Europe (including Britain). [a] [82] [157] Apple followed by removing RT and Sputnik from its App Store in all countries ...
(Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) (AP) A close Putin ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was also obliged to keep his distance from the Russian leader during a Feb. 1 ...
Sputnik 2 (Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputʲnʲɪk], Russian: Спутник-2, Satellite 2), or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 (PS-2, Russian: Простейший Спутник 2, Simplest Satellite 2), [3]: 155 launched on 3 November 1957, was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, and the first to carry an animal into orbit, a Soviet space dog named Laika.
Gregory Zuckerman, an investigative reporter at the Wall Street Journal, predicted that the world will never eradicate COVID-19 but the virus will eventually "melt into the background."
Sputnik 1 (/ ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k, ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program .
If you want an article about the Sputnik mission itself, that's what the Sputnik 1 article is for. --Jfruh 20:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC) The sputnik crisis has to do with america, i didnt see the USSR have a crisis with sputnik, therefore it is perfectly fine to only illustrate the american side, it is the ONLY side to this article.