Spacecraft With Names Containing Sputnik
Being the Russian term for "satellite", the word Sputnik has appeared in the names of other spacecraft:
- Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, a series of scientific and technology development satellites
- Istrebitel Sputnik, "Fighter Satellite", a series of antisatellite weapons and targets
- Tyazhely Sputnik, "Heavy Satellite", a failed Venus probe
- Upravlyaemy Sputnik, "Controllable Satellite", a series of ocean surveillance and missile detection satellites
- US-A, nuclear-powered ocean radar surveillance satellites
- US-K, molniya orbit missile detection satellites
- US-KS, geosynchronous orbit missile detection satellites
- US-KMO, Modernised geosynchronous orbit missile detection satellites
- US-P, electronic ocean surveillance satellites
- US-PM, modernised electronic ocean surveillance satellites
Read more about this topic: List Of Spacecraft Called Sputnik
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