Payload
SPUTNIK 4 CABIN
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
- 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
- 206 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 64.96°
- Orbital period
- 88.26 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-005C
- NORAD catalog №
- 36
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 15, 1965
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 15, 1965
- Time in service
- 5.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed