Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik II Sighted...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6--Sputnik II was sighted all across the country today, giving scientists the information needed for an accurate fix of its orbit around the earth...
...Smithsonian also announced yesterday that the rocket of Sputnik I would fall around December 11. Whipple gave Sputnik II a comparable life-span, saying that it would last "more than two weeks and less than several months." Sputnik I, when it falls will not be particularly spectacular and will resemble a "good meteor," he said...
Whipple, basing his calculations on figures released by Radio Moscow, computed the lowest point in the rocket's orbit as 104 miles. Although this height is some 81 miles lower than the height of Sputnik I's rocket, the apogee--or highest point--of Sputnik II is 1,056 miles, compared to 560 miles for the first satellite...
Whipple added that the second rocket, although in a more elliptic orbit than the first, would probably take "a comparable period of time" to be affected by the atmosphere drag which is slowly destroying Sputnik I's rocket. Meanwhile, he said, "Curly," the first dog in space, is comparatively safe...