https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/sputnik/Recent content in Sputnik on LocodigitalHugoen-USSun, 04 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/sputnik-1-at-69-the-beep-that-led-to-arpa-and-the-internet/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/sputnik-1-at-69-the-beep-that-led-to-arpa-and-the-internet/<p>Today, October 4, 2026, it has been 69 years since an aluminum ball about the size of a small beach ball started beeping over everyone's heads. It had no camera and no sensors, and it did nothing but say "beep". Even so, <strong>Sputnik 1</strong> changed US politics, education and technology within a few months — and one of the consequences is the network you are using right now.</p> <h2>What Sputnik 1 was</h2> <p>Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 19:28 UTC, from Tyuratam in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan (today's Baikonur Cosmodrome). The rocket was a variant of the R-7, the same intercontinental ballistic missile the Soviet Union had been developing. According to NASA and the program's own history, the satellite was an aluminum-alloy sphere <strong>58 cm in diameter and weighing 83.6 kg</strong>, with four long antennas sticking out of the body.</p>