Payload
SPUTNIK 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
Sputnik 2, or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2, 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.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 3, 1957 at 02:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Sputnik 8K74PS →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sputnik 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,659 km
- Periapsis
- 211 km
- Inclination
- 65.33°
- Orbital period
- 103.74 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1957-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.08 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 14, 1958
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 14, 1958
- Time in service
- 162 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed