List of spacecraft called Sputnik
Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite"[1]) is a spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, while the remaining designations in the series ("Sputnik 4" and so on) were not official names, but were names applied in the West, to objects whose original Soviet names may not have been known at the time.
Spacecraft officially named Sputnik
Spacecraft with names containing Sputnik
Being the Russian term for "satellite", the word Sputnik has appeared in the names of other spacecraft:
- Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, a series of scientific and technology development satellites
- Istrebitel Sputnikov, "Destroyer of Satellites", a series of antisatellite weapons and targets
- Tyazhely Sputnik, "Heavy Satellite", a failed Venus probe
- Upravlyaemy Sputnik, "Controllable Satellite", a series of ocean surveillance and missile detection satellites
- US-A, nuclear-powered ocean radar surveillance satellites
- US-K, molniya orbit missile detection satellites
- US-KS, geosynchronous orbit missile detection satellites
- US-KMO, Modernised geosynchronous orbit missile detection satellites
- US-P, electronic ocean surveillance satellites
- US-PM, modernised electronic ocean surveillance satellites
Spacecraft designated "Sputnik" in the West
These objects are listed with their official Soviet names:
- Sputnik 4 – Korabl-Sputnik 1
- Sputnik 5 – Korabl-Sputnik 2
- Sputnik 6 – Korabl-Sputnik 3
- Sputnik 7 – Tyazhely Sputnik
- Sputnik 8 – Venera 1
- Sputnik 9 – Korabl-Sputnik 4
- Sputnik 10 – Korabl-Sputnik 5
- Sputnik 11 – Kosmos 1
- Sputnik 12 – Kosmos 2
- Sputnik 13 – Kosmos 3
- Sputnik 14 – Kosmos 4
- Sputnik 15 – Kosmos 5
- Sputnik 16 – Kosmos 6
- Sputnik 17 – Kosmos 7
- Sputnik 18 – Kosmos 8
- Sputnik 19 – Venera 2MV-1 No.1
- Sputnik 20 – Venera 2MV-1 No.2
- Sputnik 21 – Venera 2MV-2 No.1
- Sputnik 22 – Mars 2MV-4 No.1
- Sputnik 23 – Mars 1
- Sputnik 24 – Mars 2MV-3 No.1
- Sputnik 25 – Luna E-6 No.2
Spacecraft named after Sputnik 1
- Sputnik 40
- Sputnik 41
- Sputnik 99
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See also
References
- The Russian word "sputnik" can have many meanings: "satellite", "travelling companion", "fellow traveller", etc. However, in astronomy it only means "satellite".
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