first computer to calculate the orbit of Sputnik 1 Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes Timeline of Russian innovation References Bibliography Further reading External links Satellite One: The story of the first man-made device in space by Russian News Agency TASS Documents related to Sputnik 1 and the Space Race at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library 50th Anniversary of the Space Age & Sputnik – an interactive media by NASA Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke – an interview for IEEE Spectrum Sputnik Program Page by NASA's Solar System Exploration NASA on Sputnik 1 A joint Russian project of Ground microprocessing information systems SRC "PLANETA" and Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory (IKI RAN) dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Sputnik 1 1 Spacecraft launched in 1957 1957 in the Soviet Union Amateur radio history Spacecraft which reentered in 1958 Soviet inventions Satellites of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 1957 in international relations History of electronic engineering First artificial satellites of a country Cold War terminology 1958 in the Soviet Union Articles containing video clips Technology demonstration satellites Geospace monitoring satellites