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Did Sputnik 1 tell us more than "beep"? What science was improved by information gained from its orbiting the Earth?
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite launched by humans to orbit the Earth.
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Sputnik had just one single job: Prove its existence by sending a simple "beep" ...
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