Sputnik (disambiguation)

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

• Sputnik crisis