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Sputnik with payload PS2

On the 4th of October 1957 the intercontinental ballistic missile 8K71 was for the first time used as a launch vehicle for delivering the first artificial satellite of the Earth into orbit. This launch vehicle was named “Sputnik” and designated as 8K71-PS. The first stage consists of four blocks, which are identical in construction and mounted around the second stage block according to parallel schema. The engines of the first and second stages are ignited simultaneously on the Earth. A warhead was dismounted from the regular military missile as well as all equipment of flight control system together with module, where this system was located. Instead this module a light cone adapter module was mounted to locate there a flight control system. The “Sputnik” (8K71-PS) was successfully launched two times to deliver artificial satellites PS-1 and PS-2 into orbit.

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ROSCOSMOS
http://www.roscosmos.ru/Roket1Show.asp?RoketID=8

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