Sputnik (disambiguation)
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Sputnik (Russian for "satellite") or Sputnik 1 is the first artificial satellite, launched October 1957.
Sputnik may also refer to:
In vehicles:
- Sputnik (rocket), an unmanned orbital carrier rocket derived from the R-7 Semyorka ICBM
- Sputnik (spacecraft designation), a spacecraft designation (including a list of spacecraft called "Sputnik")
- Lada Sputnik, an automobile based on Lada Samara aka Lada 2108 chassis
In locations:
- 16260 Sputnik, an asteroid
- Sputnik (rural locality), several inhabited localities in Russia
- Sputnik Planitia (Sputnik Plain), on Pluto, named in honor of Sputnik 1 and discovered by New Horizons
In media and entertainment:
- Sputnik, a character from Astroblast
- "Sputnik", a song by Public Service Broadcasting from the 2015 album The Race for Space
- Sputnik (comics), a character from Marvel comics
- Sputnik double or negative double, a bid in contract bridge
- Sputnik (magazine), a former Soviet magazine
- Sputnikmusic, a music website
- Sputnik (news agency), international multimedia platform operated by the Russian government
- Sputnik (radio station), a public German radio station
- Sputnik (singer) or Knut T. Storbukås, Norwegian country singer
- Sputnik (television programme), series on RT presented by George Galloway and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi
- TV 2 Sputnik, a Danish on-demand TV channel
In computing and networking:
- Sputnik (JavaScript conformance test)
- Sputnik (search engine), a search engine owned by Rostelecom
In biology:
- Sputnik virophage, a satellite virophage
See also
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