Payload
SPUTNIK 4
DecayedPayloadLEO
Korabl-Sputnik 1, also known as Sputnik 4 in the West, was the first test flight of the Soviet Vostok programme, and the first Vostok spacecraft. It was launched on May 15, 1960. Though Korabl-Sputnik 1 was uncrewed, it was a precursor to the first human spaceflight, Vostok 1. Its mass was 4,540 kilograms (10,010 lb), of which 1,477 kilograms (3,256 lb) was instrumentation.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 15, 1960 at 12:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok 8K72 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Korabl'-Sputnik-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 167 km
- Periapsis
- 167 km
- Inclination
- 64.96°
- Orbital period
- 87.82 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 34
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 5, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 5, 1962
- Time in service
- 2.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed