Insomniac-Net ANSWERS -- Friday[41], Oct 13, 2017 [ B-C-A ]

Insomniac-Net ANSWERS -- Friday[41], Oct 13, 2017 [ B - C - A ]
Tonight's Topic: Sputnik I
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    Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957.
    The first of these spacecraft, Sputnik 1, was the first artificial satellite ever to be launched into orbit, effectively starting the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union.
    Accordingly, we offer for your approval, 3 Questions about Sputnik I?
    Please choose your answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) Answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each of the questions.  
    Good Luck and remember, YOU are always a WINNER with us, regardless of your actual answers!
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++ Sputnik I ++
Question #1: What does the Russian word "sputnik" mean [++ Tricky ++]?
        A. "Satellite", or
        B. "Something that is traveling with a traveler",
        C. "False Moon".

Shortly after its launch, the New York Times explained that the literal translation of "sputnik" is "something that is traveling with a traveler."
Additionally, "the traveler is the earth, traveling through space, and the companion 'traveling with' it is the satellite."
[SOURCE: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Sputnik ]

Question #2: How many artifical satellites were in the Russian Sputnik Program?
        A. One, or
        B. Two, or
        C. Five.
           

The Sputnik Program was a series of five space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.
There are a variety of other classes of Soviet spacecraft that are referred to as "Sputniks" by Americans, however only the first five were part of the Soviet Sputnik Program....
    [SOURCE: The Sputnik Program, History 135 ]

Question #3: The Russian Rocket Scientists designed Sputnik 1 to broadcast a beep on 20 and 40 MHz frequencies to be received both by scientists and amateur radio operators worldwide. True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

    Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957.
    The satellite was 23 inches in diameter and weighed approximately 184 lb.  Each of its elliptical orbits around the Earth took about 96 minutes.
    Set up to broadcast a beep on 20 and 40 MHz frequencies, its signal was received both by scientists and amateur radio operators worldwide for 22 days until October 26, 1957 when the onboard batteries ran out of charge.
    Sputnik 1 was also outfitted with instruments to measure the density of the Earth's atmosphere.
    Calculations based on the last signals received from the satellite and the degradation of its orbit project that Sputnik 1 burned into the atmosphere on January 4, 1958.
    Some evidence indicates that parts of the spacecraft survived re-entry.
             [SOURCE: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Sputnik ]

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++ 2ND & 3RD SPACE DOGS OF THE DAY ++
           

Sputnik 5 was launched on August 19, 1960, the first space flight that actually returned living creatures back from space, unharmed. Doing further research on the habitability of space for humans, Sputnik 5 carried two dogs, Belka and Strelka, two rats, forty mice, various plants and a human mannequin "Ivan Ivanovich". Sputnik 5 weighed 10,141 pounds, and returned to the Earth after one day of orbiting on August 20, 1960.
        [SOURCE: The Sputnik Program, History 135 ]

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Please include you name, Callsign, and those correct answers.
Good luck everyone!
Shelley [KF7TBA] & LW [K7LWA]
K7LWA.INS@gmail.com
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Posted by K7LWA.INS at 2017-10-14 04:45 PT USA

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