Sputnik 5 was a USSR artificial Earth satellite from the Sputnik space program, launched on August 19, 1960. It was in fact the second test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, and therefore it is sometimes called Korabl-Sputnik 2 ("korabl" is Russian for "ship"). It was the first one to return animals from orbit. August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precision atomic time standard. ... Map showing the location of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the worlds oldest and largest operational space launch facility. ... is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ... Sputnik 1 model USSR postage stamp depicting Sputnik 1 This metal arming key is the last remaining piece of the first Sputnik satellite. ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Vostok (Восток, translated as East) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Unions space program for human spaceflight. ...

Crew

• Belka and Strelka (2 dogs)

Mission parameters

• Mass: 4,600 kg
• Perigee: 287 km
• Apogee: 324 km
• Inclination: 64.95°
• Period: 90.72 minutes
• NSSDC ID: 1960-011A

Perigee is the point at which an object in orbit around the Earth makes its closest approach to the Earth. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction. ... The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) is a department in NASAs Solar System Exploration Division. ...

Mission highlights

Belka and Strelka

A radio station in Bonn, Germany, was among the first to pick up the signal. On the 3rd orbit, a Swedish radio station confirmed this. Belka and Strelka, part of the Russian Space Agency. ... Belka and Strelka, part of the Russian Space Agency. ... Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

The spacecraft carried two dogs, Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants on-board. The spacecraft returned to earth the next day and all animals were recovered safely. The spacecraft also carried a television camera which took images of the dogs. Belka and Strelka orbited the Earth and returned safely on Korabl-Sputnik-2 During the 1950s and 1960s the USSR used a number of dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. ...

Shortly after the landing, one of Strelka's puppies was sent to Jacqueline Kennedy as a present from the Soviet Union. First official White House portrait. ...

Note

The launch time is disputed: Sergei Voevodin gave the time as 08:38:24 UTC while it was officially said to be 08:44:06 ...

See also

Russian space dogs Belka and Strelka orbited the Earth and returned safely on Korabl-Sputnik-5 During the 1950s and 1960s the USSR used a number of dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. ...

v • d • e Vostok programme
Unmanned:	Sputnik 4, Sputnik 5, Sputnik 6, Sputnik 9, Sputnik 10
Manned:	Vostok 1, Vostok 2, Vostok 3, Vostok 4, Vostok 5, Vostok 6
Planned:	Vostok 7 to 13, incorporated into Voskhod programme

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