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

[Geoff Richards]

The Sputnik 2 nose cone and the three-part one from Sputnik 3 are in the 
same situation: no catalogue numbers in the US system, no orbital 
parameters, but listed by the RAE Table.  I think the RAE was happy to list 
things that were known to exist but were not tracked.

Geoff Richards


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <agzak at optonline.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] What happened to Sputnik 1*s payload fairing?


> "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
>