Sputnik 3 (Object D / D-1 No.2), a ~1,327 kg Soviet automatic scientific laboratory, launched on an 8A91 from Baikonur on 15 May 1958. The first large multi-instrument Earth-science satellite measured radiation, micrometeoroids, and the upper atmosphere from a highly elliptical LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Sputnik 8A91 flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1958, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Sputnik 8A91
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1958-004
- Launches in 1958
- 8th of 28
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