{
  "id": 10983718,
  "title": "A Photographic Look at Sputnik 1, the Satellite That Launched the Space Age 69 Years Ago",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/a-photographic-look-at-sputnik-1-the-satellite-that-launched-the",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-30T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nautilus",
    "slug": "nautilus",
    "url": "https://nautil.us/a-photographic-look-at-sputnik-1-the-satellite-that-launched-the-space-age-69-years-ago-1285418/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "There have been many milestones of note in the story of the Space Age, but the launch of the USSR’s Sputnik 1 satellite is the major breakthrough that started it all. It was the first human-made object to get up into space and stay in orbit, having blasted off on October 4, 1957, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in current-day Kazakhstan. It was a technological leap that no one outside the Soviet…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}