General Knowledge · Space Exploration
Which artificial satellite, launched in 1957, became the first to orbit Earth and effectively initiated the space age?
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- 1Pioneer 4
- 2Explorer 6
- 3Sputnik 2
- 4Sputnik 1✓
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Sputnik 1
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