[FPSPACE] What happened to Sputnik 1*s payload fairing?

[agzak at optonline.net]

"Little encyclopedia" of spaceflight published in USSR in 1968, has a table of satellite 
launches, which it credited to the Astronomical Council of the USSR and Royal Air Force 
Research Center in Farnboro.  The document lists two fragments for Sputnik-1, supporting a 
presumption that the core stage and the fairing were the only fragments entering orbit with 
Sputnik-1.

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Richards <grrichards at dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:31 pm
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] What happened to Sputnik 1*s payload fairing?
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> Only the satellite and the rocket were given catalogue numbers, so 
> presumably the fairing was never tracked.  The satellite was pretty 
> faint 
> for optical tracking, but at least it had radio transmitters.  A 
> similarly 
> faint object without transmitters was presumably beyond the 
> capability of 
> the tracking systems at the time.
> 
> Geoff Richards
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Erik Tronstad" <Erik.Tronstad at nilf.no>
> To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:05 PM
> Subject: [FPSPACE] What happened to Sputnik 1*s payload fairing?
> 
> 
> > >From what I understand the fairing was separated after Sputnik 1 
> and the
> > core booster had entered orbit. Thus the fairing entered orbit, too.
> > Does anyone know when it decayed?
> >
> > Was there any other objects orbited than these three on this 
> historic> launch?
> >
> > Erik Tronstad
> >
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Anatoly Zak
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