Sputnik launch

Agree or disagree with the following statement The 1957 launching of the Russian satellite Sputnik caused important changes in the American educational system. ... 

After Sputnik I and II were launched, the Congress set up special committees to consider national needs in relation to space. In conjunction with the executive branch, these committees created the present National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The importance of these activities was signaled by the unprecedented heading of the two committees by the Majority Leaders and the Minority Leaders of each House. In the summer of 1958 after the enactment of the Space Act, both Houses moved to change their rules to set up new standing committees to be concerned with space. This is not a common event, for the last time that was done was two thirds of a century earlier in 1892 (the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees). 

The world of rocketry changed dramatically on October 4, 1957. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik to an orbit 340 miles (547 kilometers) high. 

Much has been made of the impetus to pursuing science and engineering careers that was generated by the launch of Sputnik in October 1957. And many have attempted to fashion a similar call to action based on our national economic security. However, when one looks at the production of bachelor s level engineers, on a population normalized basis, it appears that the Sputnik phenomenon had little impact on engineering study. As the data in Fig. 7.3 (National Science Board, 2006 U.S. 

The Space Age of the 1960s and 1970s, beginning with the launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in the 1950s, had a tremendous impact in... 

Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957, by the Soviet Union, was the first artificial satellite. It used radio transmission to collect data regarding the distribution of radio signals within the ionosphere in order to measure density in the atmosphere. In addition to space satellites, the most common artificial satellites are the satellites used for communication, weather, navigation, and research. These artificial satellites travel around the Earth because of human action, and they depend on computer systems to function. A rocket is used to launch these artificial satellites so that they will have enough speed to be accelerated into the most common types of circular orbits, which require speeds of about 27,000 kilometers per hour. Some satellites, especially those that are to be used at locations far removed from the Earth s equator, require elliptical-shaped orbits instead, and their acceleration speeds are 30,000 kilometers per hour. If a launching rocket applies too much energy... 

Sputnik I, the world s first spacecraft, was launched by the U.S.S.R. on October 4, 1957. It deorbited three months later, on January 3,1958. The United States launched its first spacecraft, Elxplorer 1, on January 31, 1958. It deorbited on March 31,1970. 

Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, and in 1962, NASA launched Telstar, the first U.S. communications satellite. Communication satellites from many countries currendy support a wide variety of communications. 

Satellite Communications and GPS. Satellite communications developed in both the United States and Russia shortly after the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Most satelhte transmissions are in the micro-wave bands, but some use other electromagnetic wavelengths as well. There are a variety of devices for satellite transmissions, but many of them use an enhanced vacuum tube technology with names such as magnetron and gyrotron. Elarly satellite antennae were very large but have been greatly reduced in size. 

First satellite The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. 

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