Sputnik 1 reenters
Date as reported
The first artificial satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
- Category
- Returns and Mission Endings
- Type
- Re-entry
- Mission
- Sputnik 1
- Organization
- Soviet Union
- Participants
- Soviet Union
- Human involvement
- Uncrewed
Sources and attribution
- NASA HEASARC — 1900–1959 (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.